Update to Krumpy

well, saturday night was NOT so good for the krump. me and d were gone shopping quite a bit, so we weren’t watching her like a hawk…when we got home around 9pm - noticed that she was severely itchy. now we had also noticed, she really wasn’t drinking that much water, she was eating fine, but not taking in much water. i figured that was ok, since she was getting chicken broth mixed with her rice.

anyway - we flipped the poor thing on her back to see what all the itching was about - and she was covered, and i mean covered with raised welps. we figured it was a reaction to one of the meds she was on - and promptly gave her a benadryl. well, 45 mintues later, that was a useless thing to have done. she was still getting more welps. we called the dog er, and of course, they said, considering what she has been through this week, bring her in. so…for the next 5 (count them, 1,2,3,4,5) we sat at the emergency animal clinic. of course, as soon as we got there, all hell broke loose, which is why it took them so long to get her seen. there was only one other person there when we arrived..

anyway - she was dehydrated, so they gave her fluid under her skin, so she wouldn’t have to stay the night on an iv - a steroid shot to control whatever was causing the intense rash. now this was not a great idea, considering her pancreas thing. even i had looked that up before we left, but we decided that she needed the shot more than the risk. she has also had a really foul odor coming from somewhere on her since we brought her home from the vet the first time. well, as long as you pay what you pay for emergency vet care, i had them check it out. while we were getting her into position to crank her mouth open, my finger went up inside her mouth and came out all bloody. viola - the source of the foul odor. she has mouth ulcers all over the place - we figured that the medicine, pancreazyme was digesting the soft tissue in her mouth. pretty icky. needless to say, that medicine was STOPPED immediately.

sunday krumpers drank water like her old self - i’m guessing the steroid shot helped soften the pain she was feeling in her mouth. by sunday night, the smell is still there, but much fainter. the er doc was going to fax all of this information over to her vet this morning, and i’m calling as i finish writing.

krump is trying to be the ‘million dollar dog’.

Krumpy Update


August 17, 2007 on 3:36 pm

well, krump came home on monday - she couldn’t have any water or food till tuesday. on tuesday, for 3 days, she got 1/3 of a can of chicken and rice soup totally blendered with pancreatic enzymes in it, which essentially began digestion. she was like ‘ whew ‘ food. she slept really well.

friday, she started her rice diet - rice cooked in chicken broth (of course she got the organic variety). also mixed with pe’s in it. i have to use those enzymes until they are all gone. i called the vet today, because monday she is supposed to be back on regular diet, and i thought it might be a little shocky to her system, and they said i could start adding a few food nuggets in with the rice, increasing it towards sunday night.


the poor dear is very skinny! she looks like a bag of bones and is grateful for the rice. i’m also having to give her zantac once a day. please don’t make her be on this medicine for the rest of her little doggie life. even with the kroger variety - it’s not cheap, unless you find a bogo.

still painting - have moved on to the kitchen (finished) breakfast area (finished) and living room (95%). my feet are dead! ladders!

my poor krumpy! (again)

my poor krumpy is in the doggie hospital until tuesday - she has pancreatitis. how she got that - who knows. she started feeling bad on wednesday night in the middle of the night. the vomiting started thursday afternoon, I took her to the vet friday morning. they checked her over, gave her a shot for the nausea, medicine for diareah, and an antibiotic for general principle. 

diane and i have been re-doing our guest room - so i got up early saturday morning to start the painting, tried to give krumps some food - she turned her nose at scrambled eggs, and cheese - so i knew she was really sick. back to the vet, they x-rayd her abdomen, and took blood and it tested positive for pancreatitis. she has to be on iv fluids for 48-72 hours and hopefully things will calm down. i searched it out on the internet, seems most dogs make a full recovery. poor baby was sooo tired and so sad looking when i left her at the vet. 

wah!