Saturday, June 2, 2012

Exploding Anal Glands!!!!

Yes you read that right. My poor little Lola had one of her anal glands explode. Luckily I didn't see it happen as I read online it's quite the freaky site. Poor little Lola had Diarrhea and I didn't think to much of it because that does happen from time to time so I decided just to watch her and see how she was doing. The Diarrhea slowed down and I thought she was on the mend. I went to work on Friday and come home to find out Lola had been licking her butt all day and it was red and inflamed. This was 5:40PM and my vet closed at 6:00PM on Friday. So still not realizing the severity of what was going on with Lola ,but knowing that her baboon butt. (that's the best way I can describe it) must have hurt like crazy. I did some searching online and read things like it could just be irritated from the diarrhea or could be "worms" (glad it wasn't that) or it could be Anal Gland issues, but being the expert that I am decided it must just be irritated from the Diarrhea so I bathed her and also put a warm compress on there and put a little bit of neosporin on there. All of this I read online. I had decided that I would call the vet in the morning luckily my vet is open on Saturdays from 8-2PM. I called and they said they were all booked up, but were nice enough to squeeze us in at 10:30PM. By this point Lola was actually acting a little more chipper so I thought maybe whatever it was had passed, but I still wanted to bring her in just to be sure. I took her in and the vet saw her took her in the back and came back in without her and "said what a little trouper she is" she explained that her one anal gland was impacted and the other one exploded which basically means it came through her skin and then burst and that is what was causing the diarrhea not the other way around. Poor baby she must have been in some excruciating pain for at least the last two days or so. They kept her at the vet sedated her so they could clean up the area and express the other anal gland. So I left her there and went home for bit. They called me back to get her about 40 minutes later she was so loopy she reminded me of the youtube video called David after the Dentist. I thought about filming her, but nah I didn't. she could barely hold her head up. The vet sent her home with an oral antibiotic, a pain med and a topic cream. after I got home with her she slept for about 2 hours straight only waking up because someone outside shot off a fire cracker (thanks ass hole) in there defense I don't know who they were and they don't know me so they didn't do it on purpose, but that and thunderstorms are Lola's worst fears she freaks out. still loopy she ran down the stairs which I was just advised by the vet not to let her do. fortunately she didn't fall, but after that I decided to put her in the bathroom for awhile. I originally had plans to go to a movie so decided to go and left her in the bathroom. She was in there for another 2.5 hours by the time I came home she was wide awake and that brings us to now she had her dinner and now she is contently staring out the window still just the tiniest bit loopy doped up on pain med. I will be giving her the 3 medicines for the next 7 days. the vet said that she should heal nicely on her own. so my poor baby is now on the mend. it was an expensive day, but I'm glad I didn't wait any longer to get her the help. Lesson learned if your dog has an inflamed or is abnormally red get them to the vet as soon as possible and get those anal glands checked out on a regular basis.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Lola and Her Duck

Here is Lola and her one and only favorite toy the only toy she will play with period

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Stay Tuned

Many Things to come from this blog in 2012!

Friday, May 6, 2011

I Want...

This Video is so adorable I hope it is really effective in raising money and spreading awareness

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Animal Humane Society:

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Trying to raise some money for Homeless animals and it appears the donate now button is broken could someone go make sure it's working ok by making a donation that'd be great thanks

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Animal Humane Society:

Currently I am raising money to help my local Animal Humane Society if you would like to help please click on the link every little bit helps I'm currently at $230.00 trying to make my way to possibly $1,000.00!

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Teeth Care in your dog

So apparently taking care of your dogs teeth is very important especially in small dogs hmm who knew? ,but seriously Lola's teeth are very prone to tartar I brush them, but not as much as I probably should have so anyway I took her to the vet last month and the vet was adamant that she get her teeth cleaned because they were so bad. Turns out Lola had 3 molars in the back that were infected and abscessed or about to become abscessed so the vet pulled them. I really didn't want to have Lola's teeth cleaned at all simply because I didn't want her to go under for the procedure due to her liver problems this was done back on Tuesday March 29, 2011 she came through ok. Of course the vet saw this as a time to gouge my wallet ok maybe not really, but lets just say my vet is not cheap I was given one quote that said it could be from X amount to X higher amount so I aired on the side of it's going to be closer to the highest quote. Oh No little did I know that I would get there to pick up my little Lola bug and they tell me the price and I almost went into shock not really, but I was shocked anyway because the price I was given was $200 more than I had budgeted for $200!!! not $20 not even $50, but $200. This was a problem because I didn't have an extra $200 Laying around "luckily" err yeah they let me post date a payment for two days later when my paycheck came through so lucky! it was awesome because then I couldn't afford to take my friend out to dinner for her birthday like she did for me on my birthday anwyay I'm getting off track my friend understood so it's ok anyway I was glad they let me do the payment plan because all through this they had yet to bring me my dog they wanted payment before they would bring Lola out of course I guess, but as soon as I had everything sorted out they brought Lola out looking all groggy with a pink bandanna and her leg wrapped in pink tape covering where her IV had been she looked cute and miserable all at the same time. Currently she has stitches in the back of her mouth that will dissolve within about a week and she's to go back to the vet for a follow up appointment in two weeks (fortunately they don't charge extra for this appointment) The Vet sent Lola home with some ClindaCure not sure if I'm spelling that right since the name is covered partially by the doctors instructions she's to have .06ml every 12 hours for two weeks this is to fight off infection. The second thing sent home with Lola is Metacam she's to have "the 6lb dosage" which is the number 6 on a syringe type thing anyway she's to have that for 4-5 days she's about at the end of getting that now Metacam is for pain which she still seems to be experiencing slightly it might be pain or annoyance with the stitches in her mouth I'm not sure unfortunately she can't tell me. So there's a little update on what's new with Lola I'm sure in a week or so she's going to be feeling much better now that she doesn't have to walk around with a constant tooth ache.