This has been a rollercoaster of a week for Bailey girl! Last Saturday, Bailey woke up from a long nap and she was shaking a trembling uncontrollably. I sat with her and held her for a few minutes, thinking she had had a seizure of some sort... I tried to let her outside about an hour later and she wouldn't move. I picked her up and sat her on the ground to walk, and she stood like a stature, wouldn't move one step. We rushed her to the Emergency Vet and they diagnosed her with a neck issue. Ran X-Rays and telling us one of her cervical discs was getting pressure which was causing her to not walk because she was losing her balance. They perscribed her a anti-inflammatory and sent us home, telling us to keep her to NO physical movement (jumping, walking, running, etc) for 10 days.... I had to carry my 55 pound baby everywhere! Phew...... Im out of shape!!! They said if she wasn't showing improvement by Monday, to follow up with our regular vet.
Monday came around and she still wasn't walking and had thrown up, which the ER vet said could happen from the pain/anti-inflammatory meds. I brought her into our regular vet and they looked at the X-Rays the ER vet had sent home with us and couldn't find anything abnormal in the neck. From that moment on, Bailey threw up 4 more times.... It was a TON of vomit and stunk unbelievably... our regular vet took an X-Ray of her abdomen and found an abnormal amount of what they thought was poop in her small intestine and also a "foreign object" that they thought was something she had swallowed... they wanted to keep her overnight and give her a shot to help her pass the poop so they could take another X-Ray in the morning to get a better look....
Tuesday morning they ran another X-Ray on the abdomen and found that compared to the previous evening, her gallbladder had increased almost triple in size overnight!! It was about the size of baseball. The "foreign object" was grit and sludge in the gallbladder. So we had scheduled an ASAP cholecystectomy to remove the gallbladder before it ruptured, but when our vet opened up her stomach, she was very bloated, even after not eating in 48 hours. She had so much food and water stored in her, which obviously had been in there for no telling how long! So he had to also do a pyloromyotomy to open up her pyloric valve because it had a ton of scar tissue, which he said could be because it never formed correctly from a puppy. They said she is alert and ate a small amount of food today and kept it down - now they are waiting to see if she passes it through a bowel movement.
Also when they ran bloodwork on her they found early signs of kidney disease, which they say is common in Bull Terriers. They said its manageable but its very important I put her on a Kidney Diet ASAP and bring her in every few months for blood work to keep an eye on certain levels.
This has just been a CRAZY week for my poor Bailey girl! I am so glad I followed up with our regular vet on Monday instead of waiting another day. They are keeping her until at least Friday. I miss her like crazy!!!!! I am homesick for my baby! This is her first overnight stay anywhere without me. I am severely, excuse me here, PISSED, how easily she was misdiagnosed without further examination. She wasn't walking because of pain in her abdomen!!!! My sweet angel was being treated for something that wasn't wrong with her and had to spend all weekend like that!
My reason for this post is to find out any advice on gallbladder recovery time, pyloromyotomy recovery time, and also advice on anyone with their pet on a kidney diet.... ANY INFO IS APPRECIATED! I have done tons of research but of course I want to hear personal advice as well....
ME AND BAILEY THANK YOU!