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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We
need some healing drool please! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On
Friday night our male Basset, Stan broke out of our gated kitchen area and ate a
plastic bag, a sheet, a stuffed animal and the stuffing from a
comforter/blanket. Saturday morning when we woke up we found multiple
piles of vomit (he has done this before which is why he was gated in the
kitchen overnight). We thought he had vomited up everything because
Saturday he ate normally, was going to the bathroom normally and was playing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sunday
however was another day, he was fine earlier in the morning, but about 8pm
Sunday night he vomited blood. I called our vet, which of course was
closed but they were able to refer us to an emergency vet. We took our
boy there, just to walk in the door was $205.00. We waited over 2 hours
to see the vet, they had other emergencies. Once we did get in they did
x-rays of Stan’s belly. They didn’t see anything abnormal.
The plan they came up with was to keep him overnight and repeat x-rays in 4-5
hours. If needed they would bring him in for surgery around
7am-8am. Because our own vet opened at 7am my husband and I decided to
take him home and monitor him. It kills me that this came down to a cost
decision (because my Stan is my everything) but the emergency vet wanted $1400
to monitor overnight + $3500 for surgery. Because they were looking at
bringing him in for surgery about the same time our vet opened it just made
more financial sense to bring him to our normal vet plus I felt like we could
do more for him (cost wise) at our own vet. Before we brought him home
they loaded him up on IV fluids, an anti vomiting medication and pain
medication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
slept with him in the kitchen that night and he was fine until about 4:30 when
he had to go potty. Took him outside, and then he went back to sleep
until about 6a.m, then we left to bring him to our vet. He was able to
get in and be seen by 7:15 a.m. They took him, did repeat x-rays and
brought him in for surgery immediately. There was still nothing to be
seen on the x-rays but with how sick he was at this point, something was
wrong. When they opened him up they found a linear foreign body…which
if I explain this right means part of the object was already digesting into the
intestine while another part attached (too large to fit through the opening of
the stomach into the intestines) was stuck in the stomach. This caused
his intestines to accordion onto themselves. He also had another large
object completely stuck in his small intestine. When it was all done our
poor boy lost about 3 feet of his intestines. </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>L</span><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> The vet believes it was the
stuffing from the blanket that did it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When
the vet called me on Monday after the surgery they were very concerned about
toxemia, suture rejection and short bowel syndrome. We have made it
passed the toxemia! Suture rejection appears to be our next hurdle.
The vet thought we would know about this by Thursday or Friday. I guess
it isn’t something that is common but because Stan has so many sutures
and now has a lack of intestine if he did reject sutures it would be fatal.
The short bowel syndrome is a condition we will need to deal with. Stan
will struggle now to get the nutrients he needs from his food.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stan
was suppose to start eating solid food yesterday and didn’t even want to
look at it. The vet did have to force feed him. We went to visit yesterday
and we did get a few little tail wags but mostly he is still pretty
lethargic. When the vet called me to check in last night he expressed
concern about our poor boy not springing back yet. I am waiting for 8:00
a.m. when I and get news about how he did overnight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
feel like I have been on the biggest emotional roller coaster, I feel like we
get good news, we get bad news, then good news, then bad news again. I
have so much guilt personally – like #1 that he was able to get out of
the kitchen and get to all of this stuff to chew and eat. #2 looking back
to Sunday morning/afternoon there were some warning signs, he was kind of dumpy
and slow moving, I wish we would have caught it earlier so he could have had
surgery earlier. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>L</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> I just feel so
bad for him that he is going through this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So,
please fling your healing drool our way! Stan is in desperate need!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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