Visits to the Emergency Vet with Gracie

No, really. Gracie. Seems that Georgie is stabilized (so far so good) on his new medications and we have seen no seizures since. We thought we might be in the clear...

Gracie has something wrong. She has been drinking a lot of water and voiding (peeing) a lot. Poor baby. It's only been a couple of days, but accidents in the house are really out of character for her so Lehu and I decided that we needed to take her to the Emergency Vet.

I got there around 11:15 this morning, and I got home around 2:15. The took blood, x-rays (digital, pretty cool). The don't know what is wrong. It isn't straightforward. There was talk of a heart problem, a tumor, liver or kidney problems, not that the vet was mean or anything. Just trying to be thorough. The cost for today was a $300 deposit toward the estimate of $900-1500. They are keeping her overnight to do an EKG, give her fluids and get a urine sample. Her electrolytes and proteins are out of whack, and the red blood cell count is high. My baby is sick.

When I was in the waiting area awaiting my estimate, I was doing breathing exercises to try and stop my crying. But a well-meaning woman was asking me all kinds of questions, "is your dog going to be okay, what's wrong with her..." and I just tried not to cry out loud in the long wail that was knotted up in my chest. I was proud of myself when I said, "thank you for your concern, but I really don't want to talk right now." She was sweet, "it's so hard, I'm so sorry."

I am considering selling some stash for the purpose of raising money toward vet bills. Take a look on Ravelry if you are interested in checking out my stash. My ID is CynicalKnitter. I will have to put my fabric stash up too, I think. I have a lot of Fat Quarters of cool fabrics, but Gracie is much more important to me than this stuff.

Thanks for keeping us in your thoughts.



Edited to add: at 5:20, I called for an update. The vet said that she is stable, and "looks good from the outside but has a lot going on on the inside." She has ascites, abnormal build up of fluid, in her abdomen. They have run a number of tests and worked to get her stable. Her proteins are low, tomorrow we will have to get her to our regular vet to start the next steps of diagnosis: an ultrasound of her liver. Thanks for the kind comments and all of your support!