Weekend, part II: The Bad
Jul. 1st, 2008 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyYeah, the weekend's low points: let's just say I've spent much, MUCH more time contemplating every step of my dog's digestive system than I ever wanted to. For a very scary 24-hour period, he wasn't holding food down for more than an hour and spent all his time outside eating grass.
One thing that's really helped keep us from utterly losing our minds is the fact that he went through the exact same thing at this time last year. That time, D googled his symptoms and reached a diagnosis of E Coli, we took him to the vet, they examined him thoroughly and told us it was a normal thing that'd work its way through his system but just to be on the safe side they should keep him in their overnight facility on an IV drip for a few days, the experience of being in a cage with tubes and a cone and whimpering keening dogs on every side sent him into a state of utter tharn, and long story short in four days all three of us were total wrecks AND we'd spent enough money to pay for a very nice semester at a community college.
So this time we're trying a slightly different approach. Watching him carefully (but not obsessively NO REALLY), keeping his food bland, keeping the apartment cool and crossing our fingers that the humid weather breaks soon.
It should be noted that while something like this is going on, watching House or any other medical show is a BAD IDEA. Any show where there're puzzling symptoms and the possible causes get more strange and elaborate? No. Not unless you LIKE looking at your pet and thinking, "Was he exposed to foxes? Could it be lupus? Maybe he ate an anticid off the street and then got exposed to some moldy cheese? Maybe an MRI..."
One thing that's really helped keep us from utterly losing our minds is the fact that he went through the exact same thing at this time last year. That time, D googled his symptoms and reached a diagnosis of E Coli, we took him to the vet, they examined him thoroughly and told us it was a normal thing that'd work its way through his system but just to be on the safe side they should keep him in their overnight facility on an IV drip for a few days, the experience of being in a cage with tubes and a cone and whimpering keening dogs on every side sent him into a state of utter tharn, and long story short in four days all three of us were total wrecks AND we'd spent enough money to pay for a very nice semester at a community college.
So this time we're trying a slightly different approach. Watching him carefully (but not obsessively NO REALLY), keeping his food bland, keeping the apartment cool and crossing our fingers that the humid weather breaks soon.
It should be noted that while something like this is going on, watching House or any other medical show is a BAD IDEA. Any show where there're puzzling symptoms and the possible causes get more strange and elaborate? No. Not unless you LIKE looking at your pet and thinking, "Was he exposed to foxes? Could it be lupus? Maybe he ate an anticid off the street and then got exposed to some moldy cheese? Maybe an MRI..."
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Date: 2008-07-01 09:08 pm (UTC)And even "Dog Whisperer," which is suprisingly interesting if too sunshiny-keen, wouldn't be quite the thing...
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Date: 2008-07-03 04:30 am (UTC)Duly sending some get-better vibes