Emergency Vet Hospital: Our First Visit

Toby - I hope you feel better soon.

I've been to the Vet ER four times with our pooch- Dot, she's a springer spaniel. Three of the four times she got bit by a bee or a spider and her face blew up like a balloon. She got prednisone IV and for 4 days later benadryl and pepcid. The first time was when she was a puppy and she swallowed or aspirated a plastic rim off the milk carton. The Vet ERs are so loving and caring. THE BEST. My daughter wants to be a veterinarian just like her grandfather was (my dad).

Patty

Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts, and sharing your stories. :)

I am happy to share, a few hours ago I picked up Toby from the vet and after they did the x-rays, they decided not to operate, but instead crate rest for two weeks. We go back again in a week for another check up.

:)

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I will never forget when Merlin, our Chiweenie (seen in my profile picture), hurt his back really bad. It was the most blood-curdling yelp I had ever heard in my life. My wife was still asleep, and I was in the shower, and he must have twisted a funny direction or something, because I all-of-a-sudden heard him yelping and jumped out of the shower completely soaped up and all to see what had happened. Those instances are never fun, because you have very little means to communicate with them.

Another time, he had an apparent seizure. He acted very strange, laid down, and had that same blank stare that you describe. Those are very scary times, because you have no way to communicate and find out what's happening.

Each time, something like that has happened, we've taken him to our emergency clinic. It's never fun to have to take a pet to the emergency clinic. Like you, this was the first dog we had ever had to take to emergency care like that. Every time we've been, though, the staff have been very helpful and caring. Unfortunately, in our case, the emergency clinic isn't the same as our regular vet, so they don't have a good history on him, but they do what they can nonetheless.

Our first trip to the emergency vet was when our soon to be five year old dog was just over a year old. She started throwing up coffee grounds (aka dried blood) and couldn't keep anything down. I drove like a bat out of hell to our vet's office. He thought ulcer, had her for 24 hours, called me and said, I can't help her, she needs critical care.

While on the way to the critical care vet, she knocked her IV loose and started bleeding all over the back of our truck. By the time we made it to the emergency vet, I looked like an escapee from a murder scene. The dog was bouncing and wagging her tail as happy as a clam.

The muscled her back to the examining area and did all the necessary supportive stuff to keep her going until they figured her out.

I was driving back and forth between my house and emergency vet for the next 48 hours while all manner of scary diagnoses were being bandied about.

On the evening of the third day, they said, come get her, she's fine. No one knows what happened to her. No one knows why she got so sick, but just like that she was better and has never shown another sign of trouble.

Aww I hope he's alright in the end. What a cute little dog.

When I started fostering 4 lab puppies from GA, the first day I got them I had to rush one to the vet ER in the middle of the night - he had pneumonia, he ended up having to stay for a few weeks.
After that one, one by one the others started getting sick :(
I'm surprised they didn't hire me at that hospital after awhile.

But happy to report they are all healthy pooches and adopted into great homes.

Poor Toby!! But he does look really cute bundled in his blue blanket! His cousins Pepe and Carson are sending him love!