Kind of a rough start to 2012. This isn't the way I had hoped to introduce Oliver on our blog but we had our first trip to the vet ER with him last night. For those of you who know Oliver personally, he's a spaz, super hyper, energetic, and outgoing. Two nights ago he yelped a couple of times when we tried to play with him. The next morning he seemed fine and went for a short run and even sprinted. But then he slowed down and later that afternoon getting off the couch he yelped again. When we came home that evening it was obvious Ollie was in a lot of pain. We took him the vet ER, got x-rays, which revealed a problem with his spine. Two of the vertabrae were narrowed causing tissue and nerve pain. Our little trooper wagged his tail (well half of it) the whole time. So we headed home with pain meds and orders for him to rest for 3 weeks.
The night was long but Ollie slept on the chair in our room and he seemed to do ok. In the morning he used the stairs on his own, ate his breakfast and went potty. We decided that because he was just ordered to rest we could go ahead with our Tahoe trip and leave him with our friends as planned. As we were lifting him into the car Oliver began screaming (and I mean screaming, I had never heard a dog scream before) peed, and gave Mike a good chomp on the hand. Ok, not normal. So now he's hospitalized and hopefully in less pain after the morphine and muscle relaxants. We're hoping to take him home tonight but right now the plan is tomorrow morning. And then what's next? MRI?, rest? surgery? We're crossing our fingers and hoping for the best for our little guy.
sending your ollie some good thoughts!
ReplyDeletethanks! looks like he'll be coming home tomorrow and then on to crate rest for several weeks. we'll see how it goes and whether we can manage his pain before taking more drastic steps.
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