Friday morning I was getting ready to leave to make the trek to Milwaukee to pick up Brian and hang out with the Sherman's for the weekend and I noticed that Tank was acting kind of weird. So when I talked to Brian on the phone I mentioned that he didn't eat his food and was drooling a lot and it was like foamy. He said that Bo used to do that when he got overheated. So I gave Tank some water and put him in his kennel with the shade net and left for Milwaukee. Well Sherri called that night and said that Tank was acting very lethargic and wouldn't get up and wouldn't eat or drink anything. She said he was in his kennel and then when they went out to check on him he was gone. They couldn't find him any where, but finally found him under the porch in the front of the house. They had to dump water on him in order to get him out, cause he just wouldn't move. Luckily Keri (who's a vet tech) was there and took his temperature right away and checked him out. She said she thought he had heat stroke and a huge hot spot on his neck from his collar, which looked really infected. So Brian asked if they'd clean up his neck and try to get him to drink something. Well Keri called back about a hour later and said that he's getting really bad and she thought we should take him into the Emergency Room. She just happened to be on call that weekend, so we had her take him to her clinic since she could go in with him and inform the Vet of everything. The vet also thought he had heat stroke and put him on IV fluids and gave him some antibiotics for his hot spot infection.
Saturday afternoon, we got a call saying that Tank didn't really look any better and wasn't really responding to the antibiotics and they wanted to do x-rays to see if maybe he ate something which was blocking his intestines or something. Having to decided what to do to care for a pet is a very hard decision. We love Tank and don't want him to be sick or hurt, but our vet bill was already creeping up on $600. How can you put a price on your pet, yet at the same time not completely break the bank? We decided not to do the x-rays on Saturday. Brian talked to the vet who said that Tank would probably be ok, but they wanted to keep him one more night for observation and to give him a couple more things of IV fluids. So we decided that we'd go to the Brewers game with the Sherman's and leave right after to make the 5 hour trip home, so that Brian could be there in the morning to go get Tank. The drive wasn't bad and I think Brian was just so excited to finally be going home after two weeks away that he didn't even blink the entire trip home. Obviously he would have liked to have been driving home under better circumstances and was very worried about Tank.
Sunday Brian picked up Tank and brought him home. His hot spot looks a ton better and he was walking at least. We couldn't get him to eat or drink anything on his own, so Brian was helping him. We got a little soft dog food down, and he never threw it up so that's a good sign. I think Tank really missed Brian too. Every time Brian would walk into the house Tank would wag his tail and lift his head. Then we took him outside Sunday afternoon and he was chasing after the ball and playing with Ruger and Bo. We finally got him to drink on his own Sunday night, but he still wouldn't eat anything. We've got him on some new antibiotics which I think are working better. I think he's going to be ok, the main thing is to get him to eat something, which I'm hoping he'll do today. Brian's home today with him so we'll see how he does. I'll keep you posted.
Other than that this weekend was fun. It's always a great time hanging out with the Sherman's and Layla Bean is so cute! Her and Logan have a great time together. Here are a few pictures from the Brewer's game.
Miller Park has a Bernie's Playhouse, which is an area that the little kids can go and play in. The guys took the kids into play around a little bit and Jake climbed into the tubes with the kids. It was so funny, he was sweating so bad! This picture is of Jake trying to get Layla to go down the slide. She didn't really like it and neither did Logan, which I can't blame them because you can't see the bottom, so for kids that young it's like sliding into a black hole...very scary. The blur at the bottom of the pictures is Logan trying to crawl away before he has to get shoved down the scary slide...
And finally here's a video of Logan our little monkey! At Miller Park they also have a ramp for wheel chairs and vendors, etc. The kids thought it was awesome to run down. Brian picked Logan up and hung him from the metal poles in the ceiling. Logan thought it was the coolest thing! He really is a little monkey!
2 comments:
Thanks for the update on Tank. I feel so bad for him. I hope he eats something tonight. I am glad you guys still had fun even with the Tank situation. Kim and I loved staying over the past 2 weeks. Thank you for having us. We wouldn't have been anywhere else.
dido. thx for the update on tank. we're so worried! it was great seeing you guys, i'm only sorry it was so chaotic and that we didn't have more time to hang out and relax. thank goodness we get to come see you and the ranch in august. love the pics! thanks for chasing us all around and snapping them!! miss you!
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