Granny's gone and done it again

[BigBlueHen53]

I am still awake. Playing with clay

Done painting already?

 

[h2oratt]

I think I best go to bed Cherry .I hope you feel better
Sweet dreams all.
H2o, I hope you come back

I will be back.

 

[ronott1]

She developed a rare parasitical infection called Pythiosis. It's an amoebic type parasite that can live in still water. All 5 of them had access to a 40 foot pond that was behind our barn. They all loved to play and splash in it so we didn't think anything of it and had never heard of pythiosis before.

She started vomiting, refusing all food and all she drank came back up. Vet thought she had gastritis and gave me meds. Next day she was worse and starting to dehydrate. Vet blew us off, gave us more nausea meds which she promptly threw back up. By Sunday she was worse yet and started passing bloody diarrhea. We paniced at that but the Vet's father, also a vet just said, well we could take her to Columbia and the Vet college there but they couldn't help her. We wound up rushing her to another vet nearby who said, she wouldn't survive the trip to Columbia and worked to stabilize her so Monday morning we could get her to Columbia and the Vet college hospital there.

They suspected she had swallowed something that was blocking her intestine but one test lead to another and the last thing they did was an MRI and that is when they found that there were colonies of this parasite in her that had blocked her bowel, invaded her stomach. She had peritonitis and there were these tumors all over her digestive tract that are caused by the parasite. No cure. No treatment. Most dogs are immune to them but for some reason our sweet Sidney wasn't. We had no choice but to have her put to sleep as by this point she was suffering.

Even if the local vet had taken things more seriously, she would have still died but as it was we lost a loving young cattle dog who suffered far longer than she should have and he lost clients with 11 animals.

I spread the word now not to let your dogs play in or drink out of water puddles or standing water. There are thing in them that you can't see that can potentially kill your dog.

That pond is filled in now right?

 

[ronott1]

Dinner is history. I'm sitting here waiting for the Kitchen Fairies to come out and clean up for me and so far they are no shows so I guess I'd better go out and put dishes to soak.

TTFN.

I read a post that said ChickenCanoes coop cleaning fairy died recently.
She was a good friend to Him!

 

[ronott1]

Sorry, Ron. May they rest in peace.

Thanks!

One had dementia, one had lung cancer and one had a stroke.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I read a post that said ChickenCanoes coop cleaning fairy died recently.
She was a good friend to Him!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

howdy all, sitting here freezing. I had to put my sweater on. We lost electric for a hot min. Came back on and I reset the clocks.
I have to stop the azo pills for Tom. I have told him 20xs it changes the color of his urine but he dont understand I guess. He thinks its blood and its got him upset. He said he peed a ton last night so I guess these antibiotics are kicking in.
Robert sounded less sick last night so I think he is starting to mend as well. 8 days for him so far. I havent seen him yet today.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

 

[CapricornFarm]

Done painting already?

No, it was hubby's turn. Looks bigger and brighter now. I just need to do touch ups tonight.

 

[CapricornFarm]

That pond is filled in now right?

Yeah, with dirt.