Last weekend Jeremy and I made a quick trip to Biloxi, MS. We stayed in a nice Hotel that had an awesome pool area on one side and ocean on the other...but it was cold! ha! We enjoyed the weekend filled with eating out, shopping, and watching a couple movies. Very relaxing but we missed our crazy kiddos!
While we were there Jan mentioned that Star was shaking really bad when they let her out of the kennel. She said she calmed down after a bit so we said just to watch her but that we thought she had just gotten cold or something. Well she was fine after that until about 2 hours after we got home on Sunday. She was acting really weird so I picked her up and she just fell back on my arm and was trembling. She calmed down after a few minutes but was just acting so weird so Jeremy jumped in the car to take her to an animal hospital. Well after about 4 different "hospitals" (I don't think they should be able to call themselves that unless they have somebody there 24/7!) she was acting okay so he came back home. We watched her all night and then I called to make an appointment first thing. Well 11am was the earliest they could do so we had to wait until then. While we were at the house she was following me and just stopped and fell on her side. I was so worried about her! The girls and I headed to the vet...right at Reese's nap time. Awesome.
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| Poor hurt Star Baby... |
Our Vet is great but it takes awhile. By the time he got in there Reese was melting down and Ryne was trying to ask a million questions! He wanted me to leave her for a few hours for them to do some xrays, laser therapy, and blood work. So we left her there and Ryne was so worried about that. You can see down a hallway where they keep the dogs and she didn't like that they put her in a cage. Me either! :(
We went home for nap/quiet time and to await their call for us to come and pick her up. The Vet himself called a few hours later and said that the xrays were not conclusive but that it seemed like she had a ruptured disc in her neck. He said they did laser therapy on her neck and she would be sent home with two prescriptions (1-3 times a day and 1 - 2 times a day). They hadn't gotten her lab work in yet because that normally takes 24 hours. So I loaded up the girls to go pick up Star Baby. Once we got there the Vet came out a said that on the xray her heart was a little enlarged as well as her liver...but he wasn't that worried about that unless something else showed up on her lab work.
She was already acting so much happier when we picked her up. She had a little pep in her step and seemed to not be in so much pain. Yay! The next day the Vet called me after 7pm (that's dedication) to tell me that her labs where great except for some crystallization in her urine...so I have been trying to encourage her to drink more water.
She is currently on the mend but it could happen again easily so we are trying to keep her from jumping off the couch and stuff. I told our Vet that she had a little pep back in her step and he told me to stop it! ha! Not real sure how to completely stop it but I have been carrying her around more. So happy she is okay!
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| Funny because her name is "Rock Star"! Plus with our $500 bill on Monday I really think they believe they are treating rockstars! :) |
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