Oh my goodness it sounds like you have been to hell and back. Here is prayng that all goes well with the treatment.
bernie goes to the ER.
oh man, what a week. sorry i havent gotten back to you folks. life has been crazy.
ok, bernie went to the ER after he got his shots.
less than 18 hrs after. he was there in the floor shaking like crazy. so off we went at 1AM in the morning. hes was seen by the doc and she put him on meds right away. 3 of them. so we went hope with meds and complete bed rest for my pal. well a day or so went by and bernie could hardly walk. his hind legs were wobbly. so i called his 1st doc and demanded a recheck. so every test you could think of was ran on the boy. everything came back great, but he was still painful.
the doc said bernie just needed bed rest, and that i should take him off the meds for a few days just to see if it helps.( can you say H3LL NO) so a day went by and i again contacted the ER. they suggested i bring him back in. i told them that i had already spent close to a grand on bernie to see what was going on, and i was 100% broke and w/o the first answer. so they suggested i call UGA vet hospitol. its a training school at the university of GA. so i did. i talked to a student who was going after his "after grad" and we talked for about 2 hrs. he suggested several different things i could do in the meantime, to help bernie. so over the last 3 days/nights, the good dock and i have talked. he calls to check on bernie. bernie has went from the could walk, to the now extremely wobbly state. hes eating and drinking like a champ still, which is good sign.
he cat too still go out to read his pee mail and poo downloads. again, a great sign. so i called the UGA center and tried to get an appointment.
they told me in order for bernie to be seen on the cheap, he had to be refered by a vet. so again i called the first ER and they called UGA and set up an appointment with a nirosergen (SP)
(ok you all already know my spelling sucks)
so things were going ok from that point. then UGA called and said i needed to see a doc within 24 hours before i brought bernie in. dear lord!
i told them ive seen enough doc's and bernie needed answers. so the UGA doc asked if they could call me back. i said yes. so its now been 7 days into this mess. i had to lay down. less that 15 hrs sleep in a week is rough on anybody. besides i had been right there on the floor w/bernie every night. bam, i was out. gone. crashed. i woke to the phone ringing. it was a voice from the past. it was dr sewell. bernies first doc, and my dearly departed scoobys doc.
now how did he know what was going down? so he told me to bring bernie in at once. off we went. doc sewell is an amazing guy. he does everything pretty much right there in front of you when he looks the kids over. when you leave sewell's office, your in the know and things are in good hands. so sewell checked bernie over pretty good, listening here, pushing there. you know the deal. lol, i was holding bernies head and his butt was rested up aginst sewell's belly ok. sewell was pushing on bernie's tummy when this god aweful,long lasting blast from bernie's butt came ripping out. it was really loud too. doc said "dang bernie, you needed that one huh". i was rolling. doc said "im honestly afraid to look at my lab coat, i just know bernie just splatter painted me". we were all laughing. well, except bernie. ok where were we?
oh yeah.... so sewell put the call in yesterday morning to UGA. they had to see bernie. i questioned sewell about UGA. i mean a school? was this the best for bernie? sewell told me that some of the best doc's in vet med has came out of that school, and the opperation was done my the best docs. its like that class room thing you see on TV. a little mini stadium type of thing.
ok, so on my way home from doc sewell's office the motor in my truck decided to come apart. theres another $4000.00 on top of the $$ already spent. great. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif
so i get up this morning and go rent a car. oh they took me for a ride too. so now were are finally off to get some answers from some of the best minds in the business.
we arrive at UGA. i left bernie in the car while i went to check in. wow! this place was set up exactly like a peoples ER. exactly. you honestly wouldnt know the difference. they came and got bernie out of the car and rushed him to the back.i waited and prayed for about 45 minutes, then they came and got me. the surgon came in and we had a long talk. theres several things that could be causing bernie to be in this condition. everything from a slipped disk being #1, to cancer being #4. the doc explained to me what it was going to take to narrow this down. he explained everything in terms i could understand.
i asked him to bottom line it for me. i said "ok doc, if ya had to bet the farm on all the possibilities, which would you pick". he said "oh, i would bet it was a herniated disk".
then he went on to say that he just had to narrow it down to that though. so we elected to let bernie stay the night, ok several nights. they want to watch him and get him on a different med or 2, and do a MRI on him.so i kissed beag, and im home now. the MRI is a better choice than the old inject dye and do the x-ray deal. its way more safe, and ya just get better results. i just got a call from the student doc at UGA she said they did some blood work and have found an infection in bernie. not a bad one, but its there. she said it can be expected with this type of injury, but it too could be inflamation causeing his #'s to be a little funny on his blood work. they are going to continue to watch him over the next few days before the MRI. so i guess hes doing ok. she told me that bernie has been a very good dog and has caused not the first problem.so i gotta continue to raise $$ to get bernie his treatment. this is going to be a challenge too. im almost out of ideas. oh, i to had set down on saturday and put bernie on 124 prayer requests forms (web search) around the world. took me 2 evenings, but with using dial-up, thats a huge feat. i left them with $1,500 down payment, which was required.
so theres whats going on at this point. im scared to death for him, but some doc's have told me to just relax. bernie has a 90% chance of coming out of this 100% good as new. i guess those are good odd's. im at my witts end, and out of resorces. i guess everything else is in gods hands.
ok, bernie went to the ER after he got his shots.
less than 18 hrs after. he was there in the floor shaking like crazy. so off we went at 1AM in the morning. hes was seen by the doc and she put him on meds right away. 3 of them. so we went hope with meds and complete bed rest for my pal. well a day or so went by and bernie could hardly walk. his hind legs were wobbly. so i called his 1st doc and demanded a recheck. so every test you could think of was ran on the boy. everything came back great, but he was still painful.
the doc said bernie just needed bed rest, and that i should take him off the meds for a few days just to see if it helps.( can you say H3LL NO) so a day went by and i again contacted the ER. they suggested i bring him back in. i told them that i had already spent close to a grand on bernie to see what was going on, and i was 100% broke and w/o the first answer. so they suggested i call UGA vet hospitol. its a training school at the university of GA. so i did. i talked to a student who was going after his "after grad" and we talked for about 2 hrs. he suggested several different things i could do in the meantime, to help bernie. so over the last 3 days/nights, the good dock and i have talked. he calls to check on bernie. bernie has went from the could walk, to the now extremely wobbly state. hes eating and drinking like a champ still, which is good sign.
he cat too still go out to read his pee mail and poo downloads. again, a great sign. so i called the UGA center and tried to get an appointment.
they told me in order for bernie to be seen on the cheap, he had to be refered by a vet. so again i called the first ER and they called UGA and set up an appointment with a nirosergen (SP)
(ok you all already know my spelling sucks)
so things were going ok from that point. then UGA called and said i needed to see a doc within 24 hours before i brought bernie in. dear lord!
i told them ive seen enough doc's and bernie needed answers. so the UGA doc asked if they could call me back. i said yes. so its now been 7 days into this mess. i had to lay down. less that 15 hrs sleep in a week is rough on anybody. besides i had been right there on the floor w/bernie every night. bam, i was out. gone. crashed. i woke to the phone ringing. it was a voice from the past. it was dr sewell. bernies first doc, and my dearly departed scoobys doc.
now how did he know what was going down? so he told me to bring bernie in at once. off we went. doc sewell is an amazing guy. he does everything pretty much right there in front of you when he looks the kids over. when you leave sewell's office, your in the know and things are in good hands. so sewell checked bernie over pretty good, listening here, pushing there. you know the deal. lol, i was holding bernies head and his butt was rested up aginst sewell's belly ok. sewell was pushing on bernie's tummy when this god aweful,long lasting blast from bernie's butt came ripping out. it was really loud too. doc said "dang bernie, you needed that one huh". i was rolling. doc said "im honestly afraid to look at my lab coat, i just know bernie just splatter painted me". we were all laughing. well, except bernie. ok where were we?
oh yeah.... so sewell put the call in yesterday morning to UGA. they had to see bernie. i questioned sewell about UGA. i mean a school? was this the best for bernie? sewell told me that some of the best doc's in vet med has came out of that school, and the opperation was done my the best docs. its like that class room thing you see on TV. a little mini stadium type of thing.
ok, so on my way home from doc sewell's office the motor in my truck decided to come apart. theres another $4000.00 on top of the $$ already spent. great. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif
so i get up this morning and go rent a car. oh they took me for a ride too. so now were are finally off to get some answers from some of the best minds in the business.
we arrive at UGA. i left bernie in the car while i went to check in. wow! this place was set up exactly like a peoples ER. exactly. you honestly wouldnt know the difference. they came and got bernie out of the car and rushed him to the back.i waited and prayed for about 45 minutes, then they came and got me. the surgon came in and we had a long talk. theres several things that could be causing bernie to be in this condition. everything from a slipped disk being #1, to cancer being #4. the doc explained to me what it was going to take to narrow this down. he explained everything in terms i could understand.
i asked him to bottom line it for me. i said "ok doc, if ya had to bet the farm on all the possibilities, which would you pick". he said "oh, i would bet it was a herniated disk".
then he went on to say that he just had to narrow it down to that though. so we elected to let bernie stay the night, ok several nights. they want to watch him and get him on a different med or 2, and do a MRI on him.so i kissed beag, and im home now. the MRI is a better choice than the old inject dye and do the x-ray deal. its way more safe, and ya just get better results. i just got a call from the student doc at UGA she said they did some blood work and have found an infection in bernie. not a bad one, but its there. she said it can be expected with this type of injury, but it too could be inflamation causeing his #'s to be a little funny on his blood work. they are going to continue to watch him over the next few days before the MRI. so i guess hes doing ok. she told me that bernie has been a very good dog and has caused not the first problem.so i gotta continue to raise $$ to get bernie his treatment. this is going to be a challenge too. im almost out of ideas. oh, i to had set down on saturday and put bernie on 124 prayer requests forms (web search) around the world. took me 2 evenings, but with using dial-up, thats a huge feat. i left them with $1,500 down payment, which was required.
so theres whats going on at this point. im scared to death for him, but some doc's have told me to just relax. bernie has a 90% chance of coming out of this 100% good as new. i guess those are good odd's. im at my witts end, and out of resorces. i guess everything else is in gods hands.
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Rick, as we Georgia girls say, "Bless your heart!" I thought I'd had a bad week with my baby, but compared to yours, it was a cakewalk. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif I'll add you and Bernie to my prayer list. Sounds like he's in good hands.
P.S. I sympathize with having to use dial-up. At this point, other than spending a fortune for satellite, that's my only option, and it's the pits!
P.S. I sympathize with having to use dial-up. At this point, other than spending a fortune for satellite, that's my only option, and it's the pits!
oh my goodness you have both certainly run the race of emotions this week. sending out beagly prayers and hugs to you both. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif
I too know the anxiousness of having a sick or injured pet and doing whatever it takes.
The organization that everyone has mentioned is imom.org. Murphy's Dad suggested it for Cat whose sweet girl Ladybug needed back surgery. She was able to receive assistance and many "friends" from Beagle World donated to imom.org specifically for Ladybug. If you look into it and are able to get something set up for Bernie please let me know I will gladly help get him back to his old self.
Keep fighting the good fight !!
Julie and Sammy
I too know the anxiousness of having a sick or injured pet and doing whatever it takes.
The organization that everyone has mentioned is imom.org. Murphy's Dad suggested it for Cat whose sweet girl Ladybug needed back surgery. She was able to receive assistance and many "friends" from Beagle World donated to imom.org specifically for Ladybug. If you look into it and are able to get something set up for Bernie please let me know I will gladly help get him back to his old self.
Keep fighting the good fight !!
Julie and Sammy
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