[NAGDU] Scary week!

[d m gina]

What was the object she swallowed?
I'm pleased she is doing much better.
I hope she never finds this kind of object again.
They say that dogs can't read color?
When I would knit there was one color he decided he liked and started 
chewing the yarn.
I was able to get it away from him, where when I would knit again, he 
would want to chew it again
Original message:
> Hi all!
> It's been a super scary week in our home. Before I get into it, we had 
> an ultimately positive outcome, but getting to this point was not fun.

> Friday morning, I got in to work, and Jenny threw up all over my 
> cubicle just as my shift started. An hour and a half later, she threw 
> up again. I thought she'd gotten in to something that had leaked out of 
> the garbage can, because she'd been licking the floor in the kitchen 
> before work. After Jenny's stomach was empty, she stopped throwing up 
> so much, was able to keep food down...
> And then threw up again.

> I took her to her regular vet clinic, but her regular vet was on 
> holidays. We visited another vet, who - based on Jenny's symptoms of 
> good energy, no overt signs of pain, and occasional vomiting - 
> prescribed anti-nausea drugs and an antacid, and advised us to bring 
> Jenny in to emergency if something changed.

> Four hours later, Jenny turned her nose up at the bland food we fixed 
> for her. I thought it was something in the texture and the smell, so 
> didn't think much of it... until she refused her regular kibble.
> Over the next 18 hours, we tried to coax Jenny to eat. She became 
> lethargic, refused all offers of food - even her favourites - and she 
> was drooling so profusely that I was cleaning her face every half hour. 
> We thought she might have had a reaction to the antacid, because her 
> symptoms seemed to mirror those of a drug interaction, but we decided 
> to take her to the emergency vet when she wouldn't greet my husband 
> when he came home from his class.
> The emergency vet noticed her abdomen was clearly bothering her, and 
> she was severely dehydrated. She was admitted to vet emergency overnight.
> We learned a few things very quickly. Blood tests indicated that her 
> kidneys, liver and pancreas were all healthy. She was responding well 
> to IV fluids, but she was not eating on her own.
> Monday morning, she was no longer dehydrated, and the hospital 
> recommended an ultrasound. When the results came back, they were quite 
> sure there was some kind of foreign body in Jenny's digestive tract. It 
> looked like a string, but the ultrasound was not overly clear. They 
> advised on surgery, and we agreed.
> Overnight, they prepped her and performed the surgery. Thankfully, the 
> object - a nectarine pit, as it turned out - had not gone into her 
> intestines. They were able to remove it easily, and Jenny was 
> responding well to the anesthesia.
> Twelve hours post-op, she was eating on her own. Six hours later, we 
> were able to bring her home.
> She's been home for 24 hours now, resting, groggy on pain meds, but 
> SOMUCH back to herself.
> It's been amazing to see how quickly things can change. I'm so so glad 
> my girl is OK!

> Thanks for reading!
> Daryl
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