pet emergency hospitals suck almost as bad as human ones...
one positive thing is that it wasn't crowded. there's nothing worse than going to the hospital and being there for six hours, mostly just waiting. in fact, we were the only ones there last night... the only ones with extraordinarily bad luck for the evening.
huey was walking dylan around 4 in the morning out behind the house in her normal spot. the entire hill behind us is covered in ivy and she likes to go there because it offers her more privacy. peters just said a week ago that it was a good place for snakes to be hiding. the likelihood seems so small. of course dylan, being so incredibly curious, walked right up and over one. huey said she didn't yelp but she just kind of jumped up and backwards, turning around and running back down the hill. she came back down to him, sat down, and just held up her hurt paw.
we figured she'd pulled something. we checked the pads of her feet, thinking maybe she'd cut herself. we didn't see any kind of bite or blood or anything. she wasn't whining or acting like it hurt. but she started shaking poor thing, and that freaked us out. i think she was going into shock. so we ran her over to the emergency vet and they took her right in. it took the nurse on duty about 2 seconds to find the snake bite which made me feel dumb like we shouldn't have missed it. but i think it had bled in the car ride over.
the best news they had is that dogs don't react to snake bites like people do. apparently they are a little more naturally immune to them. snake venom can cause blood coagulation problem or kidney failure, but they said it was rare and bringing her in so they could monitor these things gave her the best chance. most of the problems with snake bites is secondary infections and the like, but of course the iv and antibiotics will help with that.
basically they told us to just go home and they'd call us. that was at 6 this morning. the only thing we heard from them is when they called at 8 and told us that the specialist was in who would be doing dylan's bloodwork and they would be calling us later. here it is almost 2 and they haven't called. they said if it was a minor thing she'd probably be out in 12 hours. so i'm a little worried.
i thought i'd broken my pet curse. first nanners, then roofus. but cleo has made it for a long time. she is a trooper. poor dylan. i miss her so much already and am so worried for her. and this waiting and not knowing... there's a lump in my throat and a pain in my shoulders that i can't get rid of. my arms feel very heavy today. i'm so scared for my baby because i know how she is and how scared she must be. i just hope, since she was a pound puppy, that she doesn't think we left her there. i don't even know if dogs think like this.
so i'm keeping my fingers crossed and waiting for the call. hopefully any minute now.
lots of other fun stuff has happened in the past few days but i've been putting off posting because i've been trying to figure out a way to get the braves pictures up. when i hear my baby is okay, maybe i'll get to work on that stuff.
