Back on 3 feet

After nearly a week under the weather, Audrey, the practically perfect pug is up and around. When I last wrote it was Thursday and she was down and out. Friday was more of the same – lethargic, not eating, but I noticed she was pretty warm. I didn’t do the thermometer up the butt thing, but could tell from holding her little body. Another call to VOSM to see if they knew why – but clearly Friday was a busy day for them. By 4:30 in the afternoon the front office gal called to say that Lisa was still with patients and couldn’t talk. In her unofficial advice giving role, she wondered aloud why I hadn’t taken Audrey to my own vet, given that fevers were nothing to fool around with. OK, I’m already worried, I don’t need to feel guilty. I was happy to take her to Dr. Bowersett but wanted some guidance from the folks I’d paid a boatload of cash to. But I digress.

We kept the little girl in cooked chicken and rice and broth and saw Dr. B on Saturday morning. Her temp was 103 (high – but how high?). He was with me that two of her pin tracks looked a bit yucky and maybe were infected. Something was going on. He didn’t think it was due to my boner on the meds but just to be sure he ordered up a complete blood test. (Read: expensive. ) I just hoped it wasn’t something else and different.

Good guy that he is, he got the results and called me on Sunday. Elevation in her white blood cells but the liver was clean. Start her on the antibiotic with food (I noticed that the directions on the pill bottle were highlighted. No letting this woman make more medication mistakes with this puppy!)

Monday and Tuesday she’s returned to her old self. She still isn’t using the leg like she did last week. She holds it up and barely puts weight on it. She’s not jumping on anything and we don’t worry about putting up baby gates when we go up the stairs. But the spark is back in those bulgy eyes and shes a happy girl.

Tomorrow we’re back for another check at VOSM. I’ll talk with them about her new favorite past time – licking her ring fixator bandages and occasionally the site of her pin tracks. I really don’t want to give her the collar (as in Elizabethan collar). What this poor little dog is going through!

(PS: I do have pix but have to resize them)