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I know you guys will have some ideas or at least will help me calm down. Poor Murphy is a sick pupster. This morning, he had explosive diarrhea all over the guest room carpet. We ran for the neighbor's steam cleaner and called the vet. Well, my poor husband cleaned carpets most of the day while I ran Murph in and out and waited for his 4 pm appointment!
When we saw the vet, he threw up twice in the exam room--hadn't done that earlier in the day--and also had to be raced outside for more explosive pottying. The vet observed all those symptoms, and said he also had swollen lymph nodes in his neck.
She thinks he has giardia. He got an antiemetic shot, a bag of subcutaneous IV fluids, and Panecur and Mitronidezole (?). Plus E/N food for a few days. And she wants to see him again on Friday to see if the lymph nodes have gone down.
Tonight, I'm petting him, and I notice he has a lump on his face that was not there yesterday. It's beneath one of his eyes and slightly forward down the nose. It is about the size of a small marble and moves around when I push on it. But it's definitely new. I don't even think he had it this morning.
What in the world is going on? I'm of course feeling very worried about the various bad diagnoses that could be going on!
Thanks, everyone...
Amanda
When we saw the vet, he threw up twice in the exam room--hadn't done that earlier in the day--and also had to be raced outside for more explosive pottying. The vet observed all those symptoms, and said he also had swollen lymph nodes in his neck.
She thinks he has giardia. He got an antiemetic shot, a bag of subcutaneous IV fluids, and Panecur and Mitronidezole (?). Plus E/N food for a few days. And she wants to see him again on Friday to see if the lymph nodes have gone down.
Tonight, I'm petting him, and I notice he has a lump on his face that was not there yesterday. It's beneath one of his eyes and slightly forward down the nose. It is about the size of a small marble and moves around when I push on it. But it's definitely new. I don't even think he had it this morning.
What in the world is going on? I'm of course feeling very worried about the various bad diagnoses that could be going on!
Thanks, everyone...