Mabel's Mom
Active member
Hi everyone,
My name is Karin and I live in Maine. Mabel is my 4 year old, blenhiem cavalier. She's my baby. She's been a wonderful dog, but lately she's been having trouble. About a month ago she had her soft palette shortend by the vet. She stops breathing in her sleep. She snores very loudly, then gets quiet as her chest and stomach muscles flex, but no air gets in. Sometimes she'll snort or gag and start breathing. Lately, she goes longer and longer without breathing. She crawls or walks a few step with her nose in the air trying to breath. If that doesn't work, she gets limp and falls over and starts drooling..sometimes this will lead to a seizure. She's been on phenobarbitol (anti-seizure) for 3 days and she's just getting worse. Last night she had 16 episodes. My vet has sent videos of her episodes to a neurologist and we are waiting to hear back. He wants to make sure its her throat and not a neurological problem before he does more surgery.He said when he trimmed her soft pallette, he noticed her tonsils were huge and all the tissue in her throat was hyperplasia...which means overgrown. He plans to go back in and be more agressive with taking more tissue and tonsils. The risk is if he goes too far... she could aspirate her food and water into to her lungs when she eats. This is all soooo scary for us. I can't stand to see her struggle to breathe. It breaks my heart. She's just such an angel.
Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? I don't know how much longer she can go on like this. I can't imagine my life without her.
This is such a wonderful web site. It's nice to see others who feel the same way I do about their cavaliers.
Thank you for listening.
Karin
My name is Karin and I live in Maine. Mabel is my 4 year old, blenhiem cavalier. She's my baby. She's been a wonderful dog, but lately she's been having trouble. About a month ago she had her soft palette shortend by the vet. She stops breathing in her sleep. She snores very loudly, then gets quiet as her chest and stomach muscles flex, but no air gets in. Sometimes she'll snort or gag and start breathing. Lately, she goes longer and longer without breathing. She crawls or walks a few step with her nose in the air trying to breath. If that doesn't work, she gets limp and falls over and starts drooling..sometimes this will lead to a seizure. She's been on phenobarbitol (anti-seizure) for 3 days and she's just getting worse. Last night she had 16 episodes. My vet has sent videos of her episodes to a neurologist and we are waiting to hear back. He wants to make sure its her throat and not a neurological problem before he does more surgery.He said when he trimmed her soft pallette, he noticed her tonsils were huge and all the tissue in her throat was hyperplasia...which means overgrown. He plans to go back in and be more agressive with taking more tissue and tonsils. The risk is if he goes too far... she could aspirate her food and water into to her lungs when she eats. This is all soooo scary for us. I can't stand to see her struggle to breathe. It breaks my heart. She's just such an angel.
Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? I don't know how much longer she can go on like this. I can't imagine my life without her.
This is such a wonderful web site. It's nice to see others who feel the same way I do about their cavaliers.
Thank you for listening.
Karin