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<DIV><FONT size=3>Our Lexie was only 8 1/2. She was one of the twelve puppies
born on New Year's Eve, 2000, to Ellie at Arizona Basset Rescue. We were
lucky enough to be able to adopt her and her brother, Rocky, in June,
2001. She had always been a healthy and happy girl. Just about 10
days ago, she didn't want her dinner which was the first time this had ever
happened. Then she vomited three times and a couple of hours later, she
didn't want to walk or move at all. So I rushed her to the emergency
hospital. The diagnosis was acute pancreatitis. This is often caused
by a lot of fat in the diet, but we didn't give these two guys people food at
all except for green beans in their dinner (to hold down the weight) and
occasionally pizza bones. She was in the hospital for about 5 days and
they wanted to do surgery but her own vet didn't like that idea at all and had
me move her to a different emergency hospital. They took her off the very
high doses of pain medication she had been on and she seemed to improve
somewhat. Yesterday I got to bring her home. She had been walking a
little better each day for the past 2-3 days and was starting to eat a
little. She was drinking and wagging her tail whenever I went to
visit. We thought she had turned the corner. This morning she seemed
so much better. I went to her vet to pick up the special low fat food they
wanted her to be eating and when I got home, she had just awakened from her
afternoon nap and couldn't use her hind end at all. She couldn't stand up
or even move. But the tail was wagging. And she was panting
very heavily. Her dad helped me get her in the car and I brought her back
to the emergency hospital while he stayed home with Rocky who was very upset by
this. They thought that the inflammation in her pancreas had
probably caused a blood clot which had gone up to the brain. She was
neurologic. They said we could run a bunch of diagnostic tests to know
exactly what was going on, but we didn't want to put her through that. The vet
had said that she had been "through an awful ordeal" while in the hospital so we
didn't want to do anything else to her. I got to visit with her for a
while but I knew it was time to let her go. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Rocky is still upset and nervous. I can't believe we
don't have her here anymore.</FONT></DIV>
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