the Dalaverse

Right quick before I have to get off the phone line: good thoughts, please? My dog is really sick. We don't know what's wrong yet, but she hasn't eaten since yesterday morning so we haven't given her her insulin, and she's very lethargic and there's IVs and bad.

ETA: I completely didn't realize that the entry previous to this one posted, so forgive me for repeating myself.

My dog is really sick. Hooked up to IVs and in the hospital for two days sick. The vet said it's because her ketones, or however that's spelled, are really high -- something to do with fats. I don't know. I didn't talk to him. Dad and I took her in this afternoon even though the other vet Mom talked to yesterday said to bring her in tomorrow if she still wasn't feeling well.

She started not eating yesterday morning. After a couple of hours, we got her to eat maybe half of her canned food and some dog biscuits, so we gave her the insulin. We didn't think much of it because she's always had a finicky stomach. But then she never got her appetite back, and she was very listless and still and just...unhappy. You can tell when there's something wrong with your pet even if they can't tell you what it is. This afternoon when I got home, she was the same way, and when I coaxed her upstairs to lie down with me, her heart was beating rapidly and she was breathing quickly just from walking up one flight.

Dad said she'd mostly stayed on the first floor all day, and that she felt warm, and that she was urinating a lot. Both of my parents figured it'd be okay if we brought her in in the morning, but I looked at my dog, and I knew she hadn't eaten properly or gotten a dose of her medicine for thirty hours, and I put my foot down and made them take her in. The vet who looked at her tonight said it was a good thing we didn't wait until tomorrow. Dad asked him if this sort of problem was common, and he told us that while some diabetic animals are more prone to problems than others, the fact that she is fairly young and that it happened so quickly (we just had her at the vet's for boarding while we were on vacation a week ago, and they tested her blood sugar and stuff and it was fine), he was a little concerned.

I think I am mostly calmed down now that I have a basic understanding of what's wrong, although Dr. Dove, is there any other information our vet might not have mentioned?

I'm going to curl up and read Albert Payson Terhune now.