toblerone
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Hi all....
I've posted a couple of times about my new rescue Wyatt. Unfortunately, Wyatt is now in the critical care facility at Angell Memorial Hospital in Boston. We've only had him with us for 4 1/2 weeks and are very upset by this development. He had been having bathroom issues (mistakes, urgency, diarrhea) for a couple of weeks after having gotten off to a very good start during the first few weeks. We attributed this mostly to stress and took the usual measures..bland diet, careful watching of food, etc. We went through the bland diet routine twice. First time he seemed to come around and we switched back to his regular home cooked diet. Thanksgiving, he was segregated from our human guests, along with our other two dogs, to keep his anxiety level down. While he was upstairs he ate part of a blanket. Stomach got more upset but the blanket passed through him (or at least we thought it all had).
Was doing okay (not great, but okay) but in the last couple of days urgency and diarrhea were more of a problem. We decided to take in a stool sample today and did this early in the morning. But by 10 a.m. or so he had thrown up everything he had eaten this morning and was having bloody diarrhea. Threw up again, and then the diarrhea got really scary. Took him to our regular vet who said we should take him to Angell immediately.
They are going to keep him for treatment for two to four days. Various things being considered are: bowel obstruction (part of the blanket???), severe colitis, HGE, and pancretitis. Initially they were a little concerned with the possibility of Parvo but did a quick test to rule it out before they took him into the regular critical care facility. He's going to have fluids, possible transfusion (he lost a lost of blood), x-rays, ultrasound, blood tests, fecal tests and I'm not even sure what else.
I should get a call either late tonight or early tomorrow morning to give us an update on his status. Besides the medical complications this is surely going to be a set-back for him in his behavioral development. He had just learned to sit; was responding to the "come" command and started to let us pet him and scratch him under the neck. He had also started to let me do some grooming.
The vet marked his prognosis as "good" and we are surely hoping this is the case.
Will update more when I hear.
Margaret
I've posted a couple of times about my new rescue Wyatt. Unfortunately, Wyatt is now in the critical care facility at Angell Memorial Hospital in Boston. We've only had him with us for 4 1/2 weeks and are very upset by this development. He had been having bathroom issues (mistakes, urgency, diarrhea) for a couple of weeks after having gotten off to a very good start during the first few weeks. We attributed this mostly to stress and took the usual measures..bland diet, careful watching of food, etc. We went through the bland diet routine twice. First time he seemed to come around and we switched back to his regular home cooked diet. Thanksgiving, he was segregated from our human guests, along with our other two dogs, to keep his anxiety level down. While he was upstairs he ate part of a blanket. Stomach got more upset but the blanket passed through him (or at least we thought it all had).
Was doing okay (not great, but okay) but in the last couple of days urgency and diarrhea were more of a problem. We decided to take in a stool sample today and did this early in the morning. But by 10 a.m. or so he had thrown up everything he had eaten this morning and was having bloody diarrhea. Threw up again, and then the diarrhea got really scary. Took him to our regular vet who said we should take him to Angell immediately.
They are going to keep him for treatment for two to four days. Various things being considered are: bowel obstruction (part of the blanket???), severe colitis, HGE, and pancretitis. Initially they were a little concerned with the possibility of Parvo but did a quick test to rule it out before they took him into the regular critical care facility. He's going to have fluids, possible transfusion (he lost a lost of blood), x-rays, ultrasound, blood tests, fecal tests and I'm not even sure what else.
I should get a call either late tonight or early tomorrow morning to give us an update on his status. Besides the medical complications this is surely going to be a set-back for him in his behavioral development. He had just learned to sit; was responding to the "come" command and started to let us pet him and scratch him under the neck. He had also started to let me do some grooming.
The vet marked his prognosis as "good" and we are surely hoping this is the case.
Will update more when I hear.
Margaret
