Chad and I have been having a little drama with our poor wonderful Bear... Here's the story...
On Saturday night Bear started to vomit a little... we hoped he just ate something bad and it would pass... but on Sunday he was still vomiting and had diarrhea. He was so lethargic and wouldn't eat or drink anything. We decided that if on Monday he was still acting this way we would take him to the vet.
Monday came around and he still wasn't acting normal. Chad made him an appointment. At the appt they first thought it might be some type of viral infection... since they did a Parvo test as well as an x-ray... both negative. They gave him fluids and some meds through an IV. On Tuesday we took him back there for round two. About mid-way through the day he had still not made an progress... actually he may have even been worse off... he had lost more than 5 pounds over just a couple of days... We met with the vet that night and after a long talk we knew what we had to do... he needed to have surgery.
This morning he went into (basically) emergency surgery. And what did they find? He had a puncture in his intestine and was leaking fluid into his abdomen. The intestine had basically gone bad and they had to remove about 8-10 inches of intestine. They also found some foreign items in his stomach and intestine. Basically they think he had an upset stomach and then ate some grass or sticks outside and the stick punctured his intestine.
He recovered from surgery well... and is in much better spirits today... he gave kisses and wags his tail and has eaten and drank a little for us. He's not in the clear yet but thus far things are looking good. He made it through surgery which she said 1 in 4 don't make it through that. Since he leaked so much fluid there's the potential for a severe bacterial infection... so we have to give him loads of meds to help with that. We have to give him 4 different types of pills a day. We also have to moniter his bathroom visits and temperature.
We hope that he recovers well and pulls through for us. It was a lot of money to get all of this done, and it was a very tough decision on what to do, since there was the possibitly we could get him surgery and we still wouldn't be able to know what was wrong. We love him very much. He's such a sweetheart... please send your well wishes toward him... the little guy is tough... this could have easily killed him before we knew what was wrong.
I'm sorry I haven't been writing lately... I imagine I will have a very exciting blog entry to write soon...
