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Princess Lily isn’t any better the next morning. She is still shaking, she hasn’t eaten or taken a drink. I realize I must take her back to the vet. I call a very dear friend who we call our “adopted daughter”~~Tammy~
Tammy has known Princess Lily her entire life, she stays with our furkids when we go on vacation so she knows her very well. Tammy also has many years of experience as a vet technician at our vets office. She is one of the best I know at handling animals. When Tammy arrives and evaluates Lily we get ready to pack her back up and return to the vet. Before we leave the vet calls for an update. Tammy talks with her and we are on our way.
When we arrive, the vet has put a stat order on her blood work and had a radiologist read the x-rays before we arrive. She explains that Princess Lily has Hyperthyroid and that this could be the reason for Lily’s reaction since we couldn’t do the blood work prior to the anesthesia. There may be a slight bit of fluid showing on the x-rays, but they are not certain. The vet thinks that an injection of Lasix may help. How to do this!!! Tammy laughs and they look at her with an odd look. Tammy knows they are really frightened of Lily and have no idea how to do this. Tammy explains that SHE will take Lily out of her carrier and hold her while the vet gives her the injection. Mission Accomplished! Princess Lily is on the way home again, with the same instructions, get her to eat and drink and they have given her a prescription for an appetite stimulator.
The next day, the breathing has improved, she is still shaking and still, will not eat or drink. I try everything I can think of that she loves and yet she will not even try. I remember in my BlogPaws community there are many vets, I decide to try to contact a few of them for help.
Dr. Anna Coffin, DVM, in Guthrie, Oklahoma, has a wonderful website that is very educational for her followers. It’s called, “Ask Dr. Anna“.
I e-mailed Dr. Anna and thankfully she responded very quickly with a link to the AAFP The American Association of Feline Practitioners, here I found Dr. Jennifer Christensen, DVM., and her phone number. I called her, not really expecting to get in touch with HER!! She answered the phone, it was her personal cell and her day off. We had a long discussion about Lily’s situation. She informed me that she occasionally worked out of our vets office! She also knew the vet that had been seeing Princess Lily. She told me that she would call, get all the details and come up with a care plan for Lily and have them call me.
I’m sure God had a hand in this!
Soon, the vet called, in the meantime I had been talking to Tammy. The vet called me with the “Plan”. They had called Tammy also and the “Plan”~~to have Tammy come to the house and we would do IV fluids and give Princess Lily a vitamin B12 injection. WHATTTTTTTT??? Tammy, the trooper that she is had no problem with this plan at all, though she was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to do it while she held Lily. I had no choice, I would do this.
I went to the office, collected the necessary equipment and the B12. Tammy came to the house and we set everything up. She showed me what to do and she then collected our little Princess. I was shaking so bad, but we did it!! Tammy held her, I did the fluids and my husband did the B12. Success!!
Tammy explained the details and what would happen and when. She also told me to go the next morning to get Hills a/d critical care food from the vet. This is the food they use when the tube feed very sick dogs and cats. She was right, within 6 hours Princess Lily took her first long drink. We started with all of her favorite things to drink. The next morning I got the a/d food and from there it slowly improved. She ate every 1/2 hour to hour throughout the next few days.
Princess Lily after 6 1/2 days was on the mend. Eating and drinking, though she looks like a tiny skeleton walking around in mukluk boots she is on her way back.
How do you thank Dr. Anna and Dr. Christensen and our Tammy for saving Princess Lily’s life? Had it not been for Tammy and her fearless attitude and the Doctors we would not have her with us. We were sure that we were slowly watching her die. It was heartbreaking, but in step people who care, people who go beyond and then some to save a precious life.
We sincerely thank each one of them from the bottom of our hearts!
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