Maggies Home
I wasn't really expecting Maggie home today by my phone call to the vet this morning, but this afternoon when I called they said she looked good, keeping her food down, no fever and she still has sort of runny poop but I wouldn't call it diarrhea. She looks a little scruffy, needs a bath in a few days and has had two spots shaved on her front legs for the IV and blood tests I am assuming. Was she ever exited to come home and I was worried she had forgotten about us. She was running around the house wagging her tail every where she went. We are keeping Maggie in our sitting room which is attached to our back entrance, which I feel is a "clean" area that where we have bleached everything, it's a fair size area but she doesn’t like the puppy gate as she had full run of the main floor before she got sick. Maggie is a little clingy too, hard to blame her though after she was at the vets for 5 days being poked and prodded. She has only been home for 8 hours so I am sure things will get back to normal, she just doesn’t want to be alone, even sleeping, once she fell asleep tonight I put her in her puppy bed.
Maggie is on a couple medications, I can’t remember the names but ones for her sensitive tummy and the other might be an anti biotic, I have it all wrote down. We were also given a weeks worth of food called "Medi-cal Gastro", it's supposed to be easy to digest and easy on Maggie, she is supposed to eat that for 3-5 days and then we start mixing it with her puppy kibble so it doesn’t upset her system. Maggie is by far the easiest dog that I have ever had to stick a syringe in her mouth and squirt medicine, the one medicine smells horrible and most dogs hate but Maggie gulped it up and was licking the syringe after and the other stuff is supposed to taste like honey so she doesn’t mind that either.
The cost of Maggie’s hospilization was actually a lot less than what the vet prepared us for, $750, I was prepared for double that so that was a nice surprise. The breeder is still not being too helpful and told us to have our vet send over Maggie’s tests and chart to her vet, so that got faxed off along with the bill to breeder and on the cover letter I told her she can make the cheque out to me so I can be reimbursed. Have to see how that turns out.
Maggie’s home and that’s the main thing, the breeder did provide $700 worth of trial health care, I thought it was $900, but I am not sure of the deductible or if there is one. I thought puppies could get infected through shots just like babies, I guess one of those things you hear about and most usually only get a reaction not the full blown disease.
Thank you everybody for your support and prayers, I am looking forward to Maggie’s full recovery and am so thankful that she's back home. I am so glad I found this forum and am looking foreword to the wealth of information on here as I go through the various stages of raising a puppy.
Matt
