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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Cocoa is hospitalized :-(

Hey there every pup, this is Barley posting today. My big brother Cocoa has been hospitalized since yesterday evening. It all started last Saturday afternoon when he puked out some rubbery or cloth-like material. Mum couldn’t quite make out what it was but she was thinking since he puked it out, he should be fine after that. But that night, Cocoa seemed to lost interest in his dinner as it took him longer than usual to finish it.

By Sunday, he was totally rejecting all food and water and began to have bloody soft stools. Mum forced fed him some honey water that night, thinking he should get better the next day as he didn’t puke out the water. Come the next day (Monday), Cocoa was still rejecting all food and water and looking very listless. Mum cooked some chicken breast meat thinking that this should definitely entice him to eat but she was wrong. Cocoa didn’t even want to drink the broth! Mum was really alarmed by then because something is obviously going very wrong.

So she brought Cocoa to the vet last evening and they did an x-ray and blood test. The x-ray was showing that there was some suspicious whitish shadow in his abdomen and it doesn’t appear to be any type of metal or hard object. It could possibly be food or ‘something else’ (but he hasn’t been eating since Saturday). The result from the blood test did not indicate that he is having any kind of infection or organ failure. All readings are within the normal acceptable range. Neither is he running a temperature or having any pain anywhere. The vet then suggested keeping Cocoa overnight at the clinic so that they could put him on a drip to keep him hydrated since he hasn’t been drinking water.

This morning the vet took another x-ray and the whitish shadow has moved down a bit, but not as much as the vet would like to see. The vet also mentioned that Cocoa had some disgusting bloody diarrhea again last night. He managed to eat a little bit of food this morning and didn’t throw up. They then did an ultrasound on him and commented that the whitish shadow look to be some sort of string/cloth/foam like material. If that is true, it could possibly get tangled inside causing obstruction. So if Cocoa doesn’t poop out that ‘thing’ tonight, the vet will have to operate on him tomorrow morning.

Sigh poor Cocoa. I am really missing him. Mum is really worried sick. Please pray for him to be strong and get well soon. Mum is going to visit him later and hopefully take some pics of him. We’ll keep you guys updated on his progress…

6 comments:

fat fat said...

cocoa, get well soon ... i miss you ... :~(

Paco,Milo, Maya and mommy Simona said...

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOO POOR COCOA!!!!!!!!!!
dear dear dear friends...we missed you tons and now you back to blogworld we have to read such a bad news!!!!!
We're soooooooooooooo sorry and worried for your sweet bros dear BArley!!!!
What he could have eaten???
Paco had a surgery to extract a big stone from his tummy when he was young!!!!
Hope everything is going well with his tummy and the Vet give him the best cuddles in the world!!!
We'll pray for him and we have all our paws and humans' fingers crossed!!!!
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee...give us news asap!!!!
Thinking of you always!!!
WE LOVE TOU!!!!!

Molly the Airedale said...

Our paws are crossed and we are sending TONS of AireZen your way, Cocoa!

Love ya lots,
Maggie and Mitch

River said...

Ow we are so sorrrry to hear about cocoa. W
e beagles are so bad for snarfing up nonfoodables. Sending some beagle hugs.

Love n saga
River

Sapphire said...

hang in there. pray that everything will turn out fine and Cocoa is in good hands.

we missed all of you (:

Shane Kent Louis said...

Hello Cocoa, hope your in good condition right now! were still praying for you Cocoa! ^_^

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