This weekend was a rather hard weekend for me. Mona has been ill and it got somewhat serious. I was in the pet emergency for two nights this weekend with her and at the vet early Monday morning to follow up. I just wanted to post an update for all of you who are worried and wondering about her.
Friday night I took Mona in with a very hard and distended belly. She wasn’t walking very well and it looked like she was pregnant. Kip suggested she may have worms and I immediately took her in for a treatment of worms, because we were convinced that’s what she had. Not the case…
While at the pet ER they took a stool sample from her and verified she did not have any parasites in her stool. She didn’t have worms. Then it became a battle to figure out what she had. They though that maybe she is just having some constipation and sent me home with an antibiotic (to control inflammation and prevent infection) and orders to keep her on a bland diet. I was told to watch her for further inflammation and vomiting.
Saturday night I ended up taking her back to the pet ER because her distention was not getting better…it was getting worse, and although she did not have any vomiting I was concerned and just didn’t feel right about the way she was acting. I opted to go back in and get the X-Ray that we were considering the night before. While I was in there they did blood work and an X-Ray of her and found that the distention was caused by and excessive amount of fluid built up in her abdomen. The blood work showed that her protein was low and something called a BUN (I think Kidney function) was low. They gave her an intestinal protection medication and sent me home with orders to follow up with her primary vet. Under the assumption that this was a very serious condition, a) Heart Disease b) kidney disease c) liver disease or d) gastro intestinal disease. The doctor informed me that the fluid was leaking from one of her organs into her abdomen and that it was a serious problem, to be dealt with sooner rather than later. This of course scared me so much. She’s my Mona, the little baby! I just didn’t want this to make her hurt or upset, or sad. So I cried…all the way home.
This morning (Monday) I took her to the vet at 8:00am and they examined her. I was so nervous to get the phone call; I just want her to be O.K. I just want her to have a little tummy ache and get better! All better!
Around 10:30 I got the call from the vet. Everything is going okay, and he thinks that she has something called Inflammatory Bowel Disease. He thinks that because her protein levels are low, she’s not absorbing nutrients from her food. Because she doesn’t have protein, which holds onto the water in her body, she’s retaining all of that fluid and it’s being leaked into her abdomen. So we now have an appointment on Thursday for an ultrasound! I’m about ready to start a “Save Mona” fund. Let me tell you though, these are the day’s that I’m so glad she and the girls have insurance. Let’s hope they come through and reimburse a lot of this weekend’s cost!
Thank you to everyone who is concerned about Mona and our family. She’s the cutest little babe and I know that many of you are attached to her in your own ways. I know that I am! It’s so sad to know that something/someone you love is ill or in danger one way or another. It’s been a roller coaster, and definitely not one that’s close to the end.
Friday night I took Mona in with a very hard and distended belly. She wasn’t walking very well and it looked like she was pregnant. Kip suggested she may have worms and I immediately took her in for a treatment of worms, because we were convinced that’s what she had. Not the case…
While at the pet ER they took a stool sample from her and verified she did not have any parasites in her stool. She didn’t have worms. Then it became a battle to figure out what she had. They though that maybe she is just having some constipation and sent me home with an antibiotic (to control inflammation and prevent infection) and orders to keep her on a bland diet. I was told to watch her for further inflammation and vomiting.
Saturday night I ended up taking her back to the pet ER because her distention was not getting better…it was getting worse, and although she did not have any vomiting I was concerned and just didn’t feel right about the way she was acting. I opted to go back in and get the X-Ray that we were considering the night before. While I was in there they did blood work and an X-Ray of her and found that the distention was caused by and excessive amount of fluid built up in her abdomen. The blood work showed that her protein was low and something called a BUN (I think Kidney function) was low. They gave her an intestinal protection medication and sent me home with orders to follow up with her primary vet. Under the assumption that this was a very serious condition, a) Heart Disease b) kidney disease c) liver disease or d) gastro intestinal disease. The doctor informed me that the fluid was leaking from one of her organs into her abdomen and that it was a serious problem, to be dealt with sooner rather than later. This of course scared me so much. She’s my Mona, the little baby! I just didn’t want this to make her hurt or upset, or sad. So I cried…all the way home.
This morning (Monday) I took her to the vet at 8:00am and they examined her. I was so nervous to get the phone call; I just want her to be O.K. I just want her to have a little tummy ache and get better! All better!
Around 10:30 I got the call from the vet. Everything is going okay, and he thinks that she has something called Inflammatory Bowel Disease. He thinks that because her protein levels are low, she’s not absorbing nutrients from her food. Because she doesn’t have protein, which holds onto the water in her body, she’s retaining all of that fluid and it’s being leaked into her abdomen. So we now have an appointment on Thursday for an ultrasound! I’m about ready to start a “Save Mona” fund. Let me tell you though, these are the day’s that I’m so glad she and the girls have insurance. Let’s hope they come through and reimburse a lot of this weekend’s cost!
Thank you to everyone who is concerned about Mona and our family. She’s the cutest little babe and I know that many of you are attached to her in your own ways. I know that I am! It’s so sad to know that something/someone you love is ill or in danger one way or another. It’s been a roller coaster, and definitely not one that’s close to the end.
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