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I'm starting to think I'll never dig out from under the vet bills...
Yesterday morning, about 6:15 (yawn), Chase woke me up making the weirdest noises. It basically sounded like he was breathing underwater, but the noises were all in his head and throat (not the deeper lung-based noises that he made when he had pneumonia). I couldn't find his thermometer anywhere, but he seemed to feel fine other than being stressed out about having trouble breathing, so I called Caring Hands and they said they'd make a slot for me in Dr. Roach's schedule if I'd bring him in when she got there (8 a.m.).
The 6-degree temperature succeeded in thoroughly waking me up, and we were sitting at Caring Hands at 8 a.m. After a good visit w/ Dr. R, we headed home with antibiotics, Benadryl, and Xanax in case he gets stressed and worried again. After the second Benadryl last night, he started sounding a little less like his head was full of soup (I really wish there was some way to teach a dog to blow his nose!) and he sounded better still by this morning.
We're assuming this is a side-effect of his recently developed megaesophagus (as was the pneumonia), so I'm still trying to find the magic combination of food and feeding position (and schedule) that will keep his food down so we don't have to keep worrying about infections. So far, he's doing pretty well eating multiple small meals of canned food from a spoon held just high enough that he has to reach up for it, and he's getting water a few ounces at a time now instead of having the big bowl of water down for him all the time.
He's going with me to Capricon this weekend, and the Rowdy Boys are going to go board at the vet (my petsitter was unexpectedly called out of town). Hopefully his head will clear up so that he's less noisy by the weekend!
Yesterday morning, about 6:15 (yawn), Chase woke me up making the weirdest noises. It basically sounded like he was breathing underwater, but the noises were all in his head and throat (not the deeper lung-based noises that he made when he had pneumonia). I couldn't find his thermometer anywhere, but he seemed to feel fine other than being stressed out about having trouble breathing, so I called Caring Hands and they said they'd make a slot for me in Dr. Roach's schedule if I'd bring him in when she got there (8 a.m.).
The 6-degree temperature succeeded in thoroughly waking me up, and we were sitting at Caring Hands at 8 a.m. After a good visit w/ Dr. R, we headed home with antibiotics, Benadryl, and Xanax in case he gets stressed and worried again. After the second Benadryl last night, he started sounding a little less like his head was full of soup (I really wish there was some way to teach a dog to blow his nose!) and he sounded better still by this morning.
We're assuming this is a side-effect of his recently developed megaesophagus (as was the pneumonia), so I'm still trying to find the magic combination of food and feeding position (and schedule) that will keep his food down so we don't have to keep worrying about infections. So far, he's doing pretty well eating multiple small meals of canned food from a spoon held just high enough that he has to reach up for it, and he's getting water a few ounces at a time now instead of having the big bowl of water down for him all the time.
He's going with me to Capricon this weekend, and the Rowdy Boys are going to go board at the vet (my petsitter was unexpectedly called out of town). Hopefully his head will clear up so that he's less noisy by the weekend!
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Date: 2008-02-12 08:48 pm (UTC)Looking very much forward to seeing both of you.
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Date: 2008-02-13 04:30 am (UTC)