[NAGDU] Scary week!

Thu Aug 2 12:41:24 UTC 2018

They sure will. I remember the first week I had Luna home in Chicago when I lived there, I was walking down the street past a Burger King and a coworker  said, "Melissa, she has a .... Never mind it's gone." Somebody had apparently dropped their entire cheeseburger on the sidewalk. My dog inhaled and it was gone. Sigh. Sometimes the gentle leader is a good friend.

Melissa R. Allman, Esq.
Senior Specialist, Advocacy and Government Relations
The Seeing Eye, Inc.
P.O. Box 375, Morristown, NJ 07963-0375 (mail)
10 Washington Valley Road, Morristown, NJ 07960-3412 (deliveries)
973-539-4425 ext. 1724,     Fax:  973-525-1081 mallman at SeeingEye.org  

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Thanks for sharing this!  And I'm very glad to know things all worked out!
Boy, those labs, you just got to watch them every minute, they['ll eat just about anything and everything!  So glad Jenny is doing good now!

Charlene
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Subject: [NAGDU] Scary week!

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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