I know I haven't been around for a LONG time, but I thought I would update you all on Heidi. The past month has been really rough for Heidi and I. Heidi went through her heat cylce (for those of you who don't know the reason she isn't spayed is because I show her and I was planning on spaying her as soon as she became a Champion), and then she went through another false pregnancy (she had been through one before) and so I was planning as soon as she was done with this one I was going to spay her, and forget about showing her. Well, not last Friday, but the Friday before, we were planning on going camping that Friday for the weekend. Well she wasn't acting like herself and she was just laying around, like REALLY laying around, and she wouldn't eat, not even treats, and that is SO SO not like her. The day before I was gone a lot, and my parents were watching her and I guess she had gotten into this moldy grass that my dad had scrapped from the bottom of the lawn mower and she had eaten some of that, so we thought she might have gotten sick from that. So we took her into the vet. Also one of her mammary glands was really swollen, but I had called the vet and they said that was common with a false pregnancy. The vet drew some blood and it came back that her white blood count was 30,000 and its supposed to be 15,000!! :eek: :eek: Her sodium and pattasuim (sp?) were low also. She thought that maybe she had a pyometra (which is where her uterus is infected) and that she would have to have surgery, and so she ran her through the x-ray machine just to see if she could see her uterus, but she couldn't see anything in her uterus. Then she took a urine sample, and her white blood cells were starting to deteriote in her urine (if I remember correctly). So Amy (my vet) said that it could be pyometra or be a massive kidney infection, but either way, it was pretty serious. So she wanted to go in and check out if it was pyometra, plus she had a fever too. So we were discussing if we should do it that night or put her on antibiotics and do it in the morning. I asked if we waited till the morning and if it was pyometra could Heidi die, and she said she wasn't going to say yes, and she wasn't going to say no.... :eek: So they decided to put her on antibiotics for an hour and then have the surgery.
Well it turned out to NOT be pyometra, and so she thinks it was the kidney infection and the mammary gland, but she says her uterus looked fine and so did her intestines. She said its pretty rare for her blood count to get that high though. She also said that dogs will keep going until they can't go anymore, and she probably was eating that moldy grass because she wasn't feeling very good. If we had taken her camping with us that weekend, she probably would have died. :eek: I would NEVER have forgiven myself if that happened. So now I am just waiting a month till shes better (cause she is still on antibiotics and still has stitches) so that I can get her spayed.
So thats how Heidi has been. I am going to focus more on the agility and obedience now. She likes that a little more anyway. We did do a show in Fargo though, but she didn't win anything. The judges there liked the smaller, lighter females, as she is a bigger boned female. Shes still beautiful to me! :D
