Tucker has not been feeling good since Friday. He woke up on Friday with diarrhea. He had it throughout the day and some vomiting. Saturday he was still having diarrhea but no vomiting. Today more diahrea and vomiting. He has been eating rice with a little chicken mixed in but not very much of it and been drinking water well and for the most part keeping it down. Yesterday I tried Pepto and today I tried Immodium. This afternoon I was away for a little while and came back to a lot of vomit in his kennel. A short time later he started vomiting blood. Our vets office is now doing a sharing weekend duties with another vet in a small town just south of here and of course with my luck he was the one on duty today. I called and then after discussing how he was acting etc. we decided on a wait a couple of hours and see avoiding food and water during that time. I sat down on the couch with him and then all of a sudden noticed blood on his side. Sure enough he was bledding from the bowels. So we had to load him up and meet the vet in Arlington. He checked him over and said he would do some testing but he didn't think it was an obstruction because he didn't seem to have an enlarged areas or seem too sore when he pushed on hiis stomach area. He was leaning toward hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis which happens in small dogs - they don't know why but what that meant was he would have to stay and be on an iv to avoid dehydration and to calm his stomach. Tonight he called and said the x-rays looked fine and the blood tests seemed okay so he was still leaning toward hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis and he would call me in the morning to tell me how he was doing. And then we would see how long he felt he needed to keep Tucker. I miss my little buddy already and am terribly worried about him. Please keep him in your prayers. March 18th last year was when we lost Snoopy and I am not ready to lose another of my babies.
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