General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse &What did I learnt today/Chat with Friends #61, 1 by Gardengirl1204

Gardengirl1204 wrote:
Hi all. So we've had afunlast few days. Where do I begin....


So Thursday night DH and I are watching TV about 10pm and Sailor hopes up and gets sick. She continues to get sick thru the night until I finnally get up at 1am and tell DH I'm taking her to the emergency vet (which luckily is 7 mins down the road!). Did I mention that outside we were having a wonderful nor'easter? I was pouring and windy and yucky. So I brave the elemnets and head to the vet at 1:45am. They take her right back and gave her some fluids under the skin and something to settle her stomach and also stop the nausea. Poor thing was so weak from all the vomiting and dehydration! Got back home at 3am and fell instantly asleep! (While I was at the vet, I emailed my boss and told him I was going to be late Friday morning). When I got up Friday morning, my boss had emailed me back and told me to not worry about coming in and to just work from home. (have I told you how awesome my boss is??) Stayed home with Sailor and she was so weak in the morning. I didn't give her anything to eat until lunch time and then it was some rice and cottage cheese. She kept it down which was wonderful so later I gave her a little more plus a couple of pieces of boiled chicken. She slowly came back to her normal self and started to play in the afternoon. The doc said it was probably just a stomach bug - he palpated her tummy and no tenderness so nothing was blocked. So Friday night was "normal".

Got up at 6am Saturday morning because we were having a garage sale. Made $350 which helped pay for the vet bill and groceries! Fast forward to last night. Sailor and Murphy go out to do their business about 9pm and then come in and play. About a half hour later I look at Sailor and her right eye is huge and swollen shut. I'm like OMG, now what!!! It is so swollen I can't even pry it open to see if something is in there. DH then notices a bump on her muzzle right behind her nose. We figure she has been bitten by a spider when she was outside. I have Benydril but only capsuls and I have no idea how much to give for her weight so DH looks up on the web and everything said to get her to a vet to be on the safe side. So at 10pm on Saturday night, I make my second visit to the emergency vet in 3 days! I walk in and say "we're baaaaack!" So they gave her a shot of Benydril and we're in and out in less then 30 mins which is amazing if you know anything about emergency vets! So $90 later, we're home and Miss Sailor is fast asleep! So it was nice to sleep till 10:30 this morning and I'm hoping that we can avoid the vet (for an emergency) for awhile!

So here's Miss Sailor on her first emergency vet visit. The techs were having fun with her...