Amazing Recovery - our new rescue!

[bunkermom]

Oh my goodness...what else can happen to this poor dog!

For those of you who don't know, we adopted an Eng. Bulldog rescue 3 weeks ago today. Last Tuesday she had Entropion and nare widening surgery, which she has been recovering from well. She also takes phenobarbitol twice daily for seizures. She is 1.5 yrs old.

Last weekend she began intermittenly vomiting, once every couple of days or so. She was still eating and having normal bowel movements so I checked her temp (normal) took her to work with me (I am a vet tech) and everything looked good, so I didn't think too much of it.

Yesterday she vomited approx. 6-7 times, I took her back to work. Temp normal, abdomen palpated fine (slightly gassy) but not painful (no tensing or crying out), so I gave her sub-Q fluids, an antibiotic and anti-nausea injection. At 10 PM she vomited a 2" x 3" piece of a stuffed toy...AND IT WAS NOT ONE FROM OUR HOUSE! I know every toy we own and this one was not ours! At 11 PM she started to have seizures, 2 in a row and then another at 4 AM. I packed her up in the car and went to our clinic (which is not open 24 hours but today it was!) I checked her blood work, all was normal. I gave her about 60 cc of barium and started her x-rays.

All of a sudden she had this terrible urgency to have a bowel movement...and she couldn't get it all out. You guessed it...she was passing large piece of a rope toy...again, not a toy from our house! Finally she passed a HUGE piece, approx. 9 inches long and quite thick and the urgency has quieted. The barium has moved through her system and she is doing so much better. She is ONE LUCKY GIRL!

She came straight from the rescue to our home and has not been anywhere else but to the clinic I work at. I know each and every toy we own...and these were not ours. We brought her home 3 weeks ago...is it truly possible that she had this in her system for 3 weeks, or more? The rescue did keep her in a huge Great Dane crate with a lot of toys...and they did say rope toys are her favorites.

She has kept a small amount of plain oatmeal down tonight, a bit of water and her seizure meds. I am just hoping we are out of the woods!

I am amazed at her resilience...she never once showed a single sign of pain or discomfort this entire time...I would have been fussing every day!

[bucca]

my heart breaks for her, so glad she has you to help her through all of this. i really do hope for the both of you this is the end and from here on in its nothing but good days for her.

[Gruntsmom]

Oh my gosh, your poor baby girl!! Sending lots of healing vibes, and hope she will be just fine now, after passing all those toys. Bless your heart for rescuing her, taking care of her necessary surgery, and being there for her during this awful ordeal. You are an angel! Please keep us posted.