- Mar 21, 2011
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Well it all started this past Monday, when her mama called us and said they came home from work and Diezel's pin is covered in diarrhea and she was vomiting. We told her she could have a bad stomach bug, or maybe an obstruction and to take her to their vets if she was not better in the morning. Well they took her to their vet the next morning and he took an x-ray to look for an obstruction and didn't see anything. He said she was dehydrated and gave her an IV and said to leave her there over night. Wednesday their vet said he wanted to keep her another night to watch her as she was not eating. He gave her some medicine for her stomach and sent her home Thursday evening. She still wasn't wanting to eat and still had diarrhea so they took her back to their vet Friday. He did some test and said he is sending her blood work off and the results would not be back till this Monday, but he thinks she has kidney failure. Diezel's mama called my wife Bev and was crying and told Bev what he said. I told Bev we are taking her to our bully vet Dr. Dykeman Saturday for a second opinion. Bev called Dr. Dykeman Friday afternoon to give him a heads up and he was asking if their vet had checked this or that and we did not know the answers to his questions, as we were not sure what exactly their vet did.
When they adopted Diezel from us about 1 1/2 years ago we suggested they use our vet because he is an excellent bully vet. Her husband said they had a family friend who was a vet and they wanted to use him instead. Well today Bev took Diezel to see Dr. Dykeman. He did a kidney test on her and it came back fine. Dr. Dykeman said all her symptoms point to an obsrtuction so he took an x-ray of her and saw a shadow in her stomach that just did not look right so he said he is going to run a scope down to find out what it is. Come to find out she did have an obstruction in her small intestine and he performed surgery on her to get it out. After surgery Dr. Dykeman said to Bev, you just saved this little girls life for bringing her here as she would not have lived much longer with this obstruction in her because it had been there so long.
Here is a pic of it as we do not know what it is but it is from a toy of some sort. It is green and squishy. This little girl is still at the vets office and will be there till Monday or Tuesday as Dr. Dykeman wants to monitor her for the next few days to make sure there is no leakage and that she starts to eat and feels better. Dr. Dykeman is just the greatest vet we know and I wouldn't trust my bullies to anyone else. I just hope now Diezel's dad will see that his family friend vet isn't that great after all. Had they waited till Monday for the test results to come back she would be dead. Diezel is a very lucky little girl and I hope she gets to go home Monday.
So please watch what is on the floor and what they have in their mouths, as they will eat anything. Like our vet said if they have diarrhea and vomiting for several days and not eating, you can pretty much bet they have an obstruction.
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