Meds and Diagnosis

We closed Guinness into the den in case he did vomit more overnight, and he did – several times on the hardwood floor.

After cleaning up the floor, I proceeded to stuff his morning Metronidazole down his throat as he will not eat it with food. He started gagging and foaming at the mouth, shaking his head and making a mess of the dissolved pill all over the floor.

Dr. Simone called first thing as promised. There is nothing unusual in his blood work; everything is in the normal range. She talked on for a couple of minutes without allowing me to speak saying that he should be improving quickly now with the medication. Finally, I was able to say, “But he vomited several times in the night. He is not doing well.” She asked me to bring him in right then so that they could sedate and xray him to see what is going on.

I returned mid-afternoon for him. His xray shows no obstruction in his digestive tract, but his stomach walls are enlarged as his stomach is severely enflamed. She prescribed one more medication -- Metocloprimide, to begin giving him tomorrow afternoon if he has stopped vomiting. This is another eight hour cycle med, but has to be given an hour before the Sulcrate.

She gave one possibility of his distress—stress! She thinks that his popping back and forth from home to kennel was too much for him to handle. But he LOVES going to the kennel. Her analysis is hard to fathom.

As we walked into the waiting room to pay, Guinness was going bonkers with all the possible new friends waiting their turn. My comment this time was, “Can you believe he was just sedated?”