pupdate

[mrissa]

The emergency vet clinic is a very nice place -- not quite as nice as our usual vet's, but our usual vet's is really nice.

Ista was visibly perkier in the few hours of receiving fluids between when I dropped her off and when Mark and I picked her up to go down to the emergency vet. Also the wash of barium had moved the obstruction along somewhat. They are keeping an eye on her with X-rays and noting whether the obstruction continues to move or whether it sticks put somewhere. There is some chance she will pass it and will not have to have an operation after all. We are hoping.

It's going to be a quiet night around here, but things are going as well as they could under the circumstances.

I am exhausted. I do appreciate the individual well-wishes in comments, but I'm not going to have the energy to respond to each in turn.

Comments

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Yay! My question answered. I will offer fervent prayers to the patron saint of dog poop that the obstruction passes on its own. Avoiding surgery would be SO good for all of you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Saint Coprolus of Canina, pray for us now and in our hour of need?

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Catholics have a saint for everything.

Best wishes.

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I'm glad she's feeling better, and here's hoping for no operation.

[ckd]

I'm sending wishes for a rest for you and for an easy passage of missista's obstruction.

[temporus.livejournal.com]

Good wishes for the pup!!! Our pup recently managed to swallow a twist tie, and we had about a week of harrowing "did it pass" trips to vets, stuffing him full of good food (unfortunately too full) and then having to give him some nice doctor prescribed bland food. Which apparently he loved far in excess of his own food. He almost did literal backflips for it. I'm sure Ista will show how strong pups can be, and will make it through just fine.

[howl-at-the-sun.livejournal.com]

Good luck to your puppy dog, and to you. having a sick animal is always an unhappy thing, the moreso because you cannot assure it that it will feel better soon.

[zellandyne.livejournal.com]

g'luck, sympathy, hugs.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Thinking of you all.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Good luck, puppy!

[pameladean]

Adding my hopes that she cleverly passes the thing and avoids surgery.

I just started, after this status report, to wonder what the heck it is.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Something soft, they said -- a bit of fabric or some such. Which makes it easier, one hopes, to pass -- they think she has, since she had a radioactive stool already, but they're trying to get her to eat this morning before I pick her up.

[brooksmoses]

Good thoughts, indeed; hope she doesn't need the surgery after all!

Though, if she does: I'm reminded of one of my aunt-the-vet's clients, a dog who lived in a house that was adjacent to a golf course. Apparently the dog had to come in at least once a year to have golf balls removed, and this seemed from her description to be a fairly routine and not-especially-worrisome sort of thing. So I guess dogs are pretty resilient for such.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

Way to go, barium. Thinking good thoughts for you all.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Go, dog, go!

...so to speak.