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Here I am at a year old in my new house. Mom just gave me a bath and oh how I loved her so. Can you see it in my eyes here?
One day, Mom's grandchildren came for
a visit. Oh how I loved those kids, they would pet me and pick me up and
cuddle me close, but the pain in my neck would make me scream!! I tried
so hard not to scream but it hurt so bad, but then the pain went away!
Mom thought one of the kids stepped on me. But this kept happening over
and over again every time I got excited. Who wouldn't get so excited
with so much loving?. One time was so bad that I screamed for five
minutes. My Mom scooped me up and brought me to an emergency
clinic. They checked me out and said it was muscle spasms. They
gave her pills for me. I had to rest when I came home as those pills
made me so sleepy.
Sometimes when I went
down the stairs to go outside, my back legs would give way. Mom
started carrying me downstairs. She was such a good Mom.
I must have been a
sickly dog cause I kept getting watery poopies, sometimes with blood. I
was going to the vet more often now, for all kinds of test. I loved
going to the vet office all the nice people in there were so friendly and
loving. All my tests were negative, so I just got some pills.(
metradiazanine, Flagyl) I had to stay on this for a while Mom found
the right food for me.
We had just gotten our
first snow and when I went to wee, there was blood on the snow.
Mom scooped me up and rushed me to emergency vet. Got some more pills.
Mom kept telling the vet how much I scratched, and the vet gave me more pred
pills.
When the pain started in
my lower back, I had to scoot and awful lot. Oh this pain was the
worst!!
My vet checked those
things back there and they were always clean cause of the good prescription
diet I was on. But when I scooted it helped to ease that awful pain.
Vet gave Mom some cortisone spray to use down there, and some ointment to rub
on the red sores from the rubbing that I did.
You know, I cant
explain this, but when I was three years old, I snapped at the air while I
scooted. Vet said this was fly catching syndrome. I didn't think
it was cause I never caught any flies.
Oh gosh, I woke up
one morning and I couldn't move, I whimpered and I cried then later I
screamed, I couldn't help it, it hurt me so bad. Mom wrapped me up in my
blanket and ran like the wind to the vets. The vet hurt me so much and
Mom was sent out of the room, while they took x-rays. They gave me a
pain shot and told Mom, I had a slipped disc. When Mom brought me home
she put me in my big crate. The vet gave her more pred pills to take
only larger doses. I had to rest and not move about. Mom looked so
worried, I wanted to go and cuddle her but I couldn't move, so I just rested. Ten
days later I was back off the pills and felt good again. My Mom took
such good care of me, but she didn't know what was really wrong with me.
I tried to hide my pain as much as I could but when one of my beloved kids
came over, I got so excited I had to yelp and scream.
My body felt so hot all the
time, that I started to sleep on the cold tile floors.
Mom tried to find what was
wrong with me on the internet. Someone from Ireland named who Mom didn't
even know wrote to her, and said it sounded like his Charlie who also had
these symptoms. He gave me the link to the Arnold Chiari website.
There was a picture of a beautiful tri color cavalier who had died from this
Syringo stuff. She found the list of symptoms on the website, printed
them out and brought them to my Vet. There was a new vet there, who
watched the older vet manipulate my neck and legs while I screamed. I
showed them the list of symptoms and the new vet asked me some questions.
I had everyone of those symptoms. Mom started crying so I sat up and
pretended nothing hurt me anymore. We were given a referral for an
MRI.
Mom brought me to
this big fancy place, with lots of doctors the one with the fancy title,
pressed on the back of my skull, and I screeched in pain. They admitted
me to the hospital where I was taken very good care of. Mom called
me every day, to see how I was. But I wasn't doing so well. They
put needles and tubes into me with lotsa pain medication.
They called Mom
and told her I had severe nerve damage to the right side, Moderate damage to
the left side also, water in my brain, a kinked brain stem, brain compression,
and syrinxes all the way down my back. But they
let me come home! I felt so good and I had no pain but had to take more
pills.
Don't know why my Mom was
crying so much lately, I tried to make her happy and cuddle her as much as I
could but she was so unhappy.
She went back to the
hospital and sat down with the neurologist who took care of me. She told
my Mom that there was so much nerve damage already done that surgery could
only stop further damage.
Mom kept me on the
medications and I had the happiest days of my life for five months. No
pain, no tingles, no scooting, no fly catching.
When autumn came and the
leaves began to fall, one by one my symptoms came back. Mom kept in
close contact with my neuro. She increased my meds, getting up in the
middle of the night to keep me comfortable.
When the pain started again,
I was rushed up to the vets and given a pain shot, this helped me to rest.
My grand mal seizures started soon after. I couldn't walk anymore and I didn't
want to eat as my head hurt so bad when I chewed. Mom tried to get me to
eat chopped beef she fed me by hand but it was no use. Swallowing hurt too.
Mom called her daughter who came over, and helped carry me to the car, by now
I was screaming in pain. We were going to get another pain shot. Carefully
the new vet injected the pain shot so it wouldn't hurt. She left the
room so my Mom could cuddle me. Mom was crying, so I looked up at her
and wagged my tail. I was trying to tell her it was okay to let me go
now. Mom picked me up and held me in her arms to cuddle me. Oh I
loved her so, I didn't want to leave her all alone but I just couldn't take
the pain anymore. Mom asked my vet to give me my wings.
While holding me in her arms my
vet shaved off my leg and injected me with peace and tranquility for the rest
of time. She prayed over me and I left her for now, but I will wait for
her at the rainbow bridge.
Thank you to Betty |
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