Dfestaiuti
New member
So these past 24 hours have been the worst of my life. Beefs soft palate surgery, nares widening and neuter was Wednesday morning. We took beef home Thursday around 4pm. He was doing a lot of gaging/retching and threw up a few piles of white phlegm/foam. Everything seemed fine and we all went to bed. I woke up at 6am to him retching/gagging in his cage...I went to get him and there was a pile of the white vomit again. I let him out and he did it a few more times. Then the doorbell rang and he barked a bunch of times which I know was not good for his throat. Long story short, he began vomiting blood. I rushed him back to the vet (a half hour away with lots of piles of blood in my backseat)...they rushed him back and he vomited blood again and aspirated it....turned blue, stopped breathing, collapsed, and they lost a pulse. They performed CPR, have gave him epinephrine and atropine and his heart restarted within 1 minute. They auctioned and intubated him and rushed him back for emergency surgery because he was hemorrhaging from his throat. When they got down his throat there were absolutly no open areas where he was actively bleeding from. They used a laser to sort of cauterize the area. It took him 3 hours to wake up and be extubated and now he is very stable, breathing well, and the bleeding has stopped. Basically they said the area was so irritated/inflamed/swollen from all the gaging and barking he was doing that it just bled.... It's been 24 hours since that all happened, he's still in the "ICU" at the vet being watched at all times but he is currently stable, doing much much better. He's on anti nausea meds, pain meds, a GI protectant, antibiotics from the aspiration pneumonia and a mild sedative to keep him calm so that throat can rest and heel. He's probabily going to spend 1 or 2 more nights there but the doctor said things are looking good. Just wanted to keep you all updated on what happened because I know you all prayed for him...which is probabily part of the reason he's still with us today. Keep us in your thoughts during this recovery period.