Back to Doctors and a Weekend Road Trip!

We went to a  new veterinarian here in indy on friday.  He is very smart and the best thing is lucas isnt scared or nervous around him.    He’s known to be the best in Indiana and only the best for lucas.  We ended up spending over an hour talking to the him about lucas…everything from day one.  We have always thought he had separation issues, but since his surgeries it has gotten worse.   We told  the doc about when anytime we leave he flips out, screams, throws tantrums, and leaves us pee and poop to come home to.  He was officially diagnosed with Separation Anxiety and was put on Prozac.  lol its kinda funny looking back at the convo at the doctors office.  I mean a dog on prozac? we told the rest of the family and they laughed and thought we were joking.  But 10 million dogs suffer from Separation Anxiety.   They put him on Reconcile and to do basic training and the “bond” training from Eli Lilly.

We took a road trip to my brothers place this weekend, n I was a little worried about going but we went and he behaved so good! he got his own room and we started the bond training by awarding his good behavior.  We start taking the pills tomorrow so I hope he does well on them and starts showing signs of improvement.

belly rub from brother nick

getting ready for twilight

Why is Harley in every pic?!?

Lucas playin in the “baby room”

He’s back home

We went to pick up lukie from the hospital this morning.  He looked thousand times better then how he was on Thursday altho he is still a bit weak but now that we have him home hes doing  better.  He got some naps in, some food in him and at the end of the day he was playing with harley.   Hes on a very strict diet.  He’s on prescription dog food (which heee lovesss) and chicken with small amounts of water every few hours at least for a few days.   He’s taking ranitidine (Zantac)  and metronidazole (Flagyl) which he doesn’t like.   I swear he heard him say yuck after i gave it to him.  Hopefully he will continue letting me shoot it down his throat for the next week.  I got some pics then im off to bed.  I havent slept for past 3 nights.  I couldnt function without my lucas.

After picking up lukie.  i liked his band-aid. 

Back home

His tummy is shaved from his ultrasound he got.

Lukies teeth are cute.

Day 28: Back in Hospital…

Poor lil lukie woke up early yesterday morning (5 am)and starting having diarrhea.  I didn’t think much of it because he’s had diarrhea just few weeks before.  I gave him a shower and 2 hrs later I was off to take a final.   Then when i came home around 10 there was diarrhea and vomit everywhere in his crate.  so much that he was covered in it and all his blankets was full of it.    I pulled him out of the crate and he started his diarrhea again AND vomit all at the same time.  That went on for an hour til i called the doctor.  She told us to bring him in as soon as possible.   I waited for my parents for a LONG 2 hours…consisting of continuous vomit, (*later knowing it was actually bloody vomit*) so much that i couldn’t keep up on cleaning it…I def  need to call Stanley Steamer asap. So we finally get him to the hospital and he was given an ultrasound on tummy, it came up good…everything looked normal.   She figured that he just had some sort of virus and wanted to keep him for a few days to make sure he stops vomiting and starts to eat and drink like normal.   I haven’t heard anything from when i left there yesterday.   The doctor is gonna call this afternoon to give us an update and i hope its a good one.

*update*

Doctor just called She said after we left she did the blood work  and she figured he was going to be dehydrated but he was extremely dehydrated. Everything on his blood work came back bad, nothing was ‘normal’. She believes and most of the doctors agreed with her that he has HGE.  (Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis)    He probably wouldn’t of made it another night.  I’m glad we took him in when we did!  They want to keep him another night to try to get more food in him…we gotta fatten him up again…he lost alottt of weight!

Taken May 1….Have I ever mention that he LOVES laundry and is obsessed with washing machines and dryers lol

May 1 NO LUKIEEE!!! lol He’s always so “proud” of himself when he gets milk cartons.

May 4…no sun.

May 5  Laying out!!

May 7 (yesterday) around 11.    he looked…like death.