Well, while it's not the other shoe, still...
Friday afternoon, Piper regressed or rather continued to not improve. So, we went to Bolton Vet. Dr. Katy Zyra watched her walk (?) around outside and said immediately "oh, yes, something is definitely not right." She knows Piper well and gave her a complete exam.
Piper was running a temp. Dr. Katy decided we really need to see what's going with the enlarged lymph nodes, so Piper was scheduled to have one removed on Saturday (yesterday). One of the wonderful Techs helped me lift Piper into the car to come home. Sadly, it was just me to get her out at home.
She spent the night in the den, not even bothering to come into the bedroom.
She yelped when I went to lift her into the car, so I ended up pushing her up the ramp and into the car. I picked her up around 3 p.m. - again having help getting her into the car, and having a helluva time lifting her out when we got home. A towel around her waist and I had to help her everywhere she wanted to go.
She was terribly weak, but went outside to do her business, came in and whimpered her way to the den, and continued to whimper. She had no interest in ANYTHING, and hated the huge e-collar. I took the e-collar off since I was staying by her side.
She had no interest in her dinner, which was enhanced with ground beef and carrots. That was the last straw for me... We headed back to Bolton Vet.
Long story short, Dr. Katy sent a tech out with two shots: one to settle her stomach and the other a steroid. Home again (lifting her out of the car, AGAIN) and although she was guarding her food, she wasn't eating it. She started licking her incision, so I got the soft cone out and she deals with that much better. I stayed with her in the den and tried to sleep there. I kept checking that she was breathing (she was) but I could not get comfortable. Somewhere after midnight, I went across the hall to my bed and slept until -
Piper woke me up. She came across the hall to the bedroom and stuck her coned head on the bed by mine and whined for me to get up. Her eyes were bright and her tail was wagging madly. She had eaten most of her dinner, left me a puddle in the kitchen, and although she didn't eat much of her breakfast, she ate her milk bones and scarfed her pills in their pouches.
My heart is much lighter now, although she is still very weak and we don't have the results from the lymph node biopsy. She managed to go outside, walk around and take care of business, come in and walk around. She's in the den now, relaxing on the floor.
Dr. Katy is keeping in touch via email, I can't thank her enough. Just how she cares helps me.
Let's hope she's just got an infection and the doxycycline will handle it and Hyper Piper goes back to living up to her name!
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