Abby: Bad Scare III

This morning, we were back at ARC. Not for review, but because Abby puked out her FEEDING TUBE!! Puking is already bad for her condition, imagine my horror when I saw the tube hanging from her mouth Immediately called ARC to arrange for vet on call as it was only 7+am so there were no vets on duty; hubby rushed home to send us to ARC; I had to fight with Abby to stop her from chewing on the tube while trying to calm her.... all this on top of just 2 hours of sleep last night. My dark circles and eye bags can compete with any panda in the world.

We came back with more medicines and jabs to ease her pain, discomfort and nausea. She feeds 4x a day and needs jabs/medications every 12 hourly. Each feeding and jab session can take up to 30 minutes to complete as doing it too fast will cause discomfort to her. Although the schedule is tiring and confusing, my comfort is when I see her sleep soundly. She even managed a bark (the last time I heard her bark was last Friday)today when she heard hubby at the door this evening :)

The 2 vets who treated her had given a very guarded prognosis. The ulcerations are fairly deep and there is a chance of tearing. Healing will be a very long and slow process. It is also likely that the oesophagus will constrict after healing due to size of the ulcerations. This means she needs to go on possibly liquid diet for the rest of her life so that she does not choke on her food. We don't want to harbour too high hopes for her recovery. Our focus now is to make her as comfortable as possible e.g. pain management, and yes, help her regain some weight - she has lost slightly more than 0.5 kg since last Friday!