Boobies is Sick...

This has been a very stressful week for me. I've been on the verge of tears all day today, some of last night, and the night before. Boobies is still throwing up food at night. He goes most of the day okay and then, dinner time comes, and it's up-chuck city. We've taken him to the vet to see Xrays showing he is full of food. From his rectum all the way to his stomach. Food is just stuck there. Sitting. We paid $300 to find this out. I was relieved to find out that he wasn't just being silly and throwing up his food due to fast-eating, but at the same time, dumbfounded to think that he was full of food and sh*t.. literally.

So our main vet, Dr. Matt, gave us a prescription for anti-vomiting medicine. It didn't work. He was throwing everything up, even the pills. Dr. Matt was surprised and said that he's only seen one dog in his whole career throw up the pills.. and that dog had cancer. He suggests we take our dog to an internal medicine specialist. Yup, dogs have those too. That just means pricier experience.

After a blood work and ultrasounds were said and done, there was nothing to show what was causing Boobies to throw up. Another $550 bill and we were no closer to a solution than we were before. One vet tells us to put Boobies on bedrest and the other put no limitations on exercise. Right then we were confused as to which to listen to.

So the next day, after a night of vomiting (maybe due to the excitement and trauma of another vet and ultrasounds?), Boobies seemed okay. He ate his breakfast, and lunch.. was doing okay. We had him on the vet-recommended ID for easy digestion. He ate just a 1/4 cup at a time. Did okay to hold it down.. No vomiting. We were pleased to see this. Then Kyle played a little fetch with him. We figured a little exercise would do him some good. That's when the wretching began again. Worried, I called Dr. Matt. He first suggested we move on to the Endoscopy,with the Specialist, to search out his intestines and stomach. I asked if there was something quicker and simpler we can do first, like an enema. So for another $49, Kyle took Boobies to Dr. Matt get an enema. But over the night, nothing substantial came out. He only vomited.

The next morning he was good again. No throwing up, back to his puppy self. I thought we were in the clear. I figured I would wait to schedule the Endo. There was no use if he can pass some stool. He did pass a little bit during the day.. but nothing major. We fed him some 100% pumpkin as referred by many Lab forums online for fiber. He seemed okay for a while. By six o'clock in the evening, I was a wreck. Boobies was vomiting again. Lots of foam and drooling and he did not look good. After fits of puking for a few hours, he was okay around 9PM. My dad asked a vet online about feeding him Milk of Magnesia to relieve his constipation. So we tried it.

All night long, Kyle got up to see if he could get Boobies to go. He did not. He did not have to. Or he just couldn't. By morning, still no sign of a bowel movement and that was odd, considering the bottle pretty much guaranteed something within 1/2 to 6 hours. It even read not to give too many doses in 24 hours. I didn't want to risk overdosing him. I worried about screwing him up more than he was.

I got a good text from Kyle that Boobies passed a bowel movement. I was thrilled. So I called both vets and told them about the movement. They both separately told me that it didn't really matter. That since he's throwing up every day for more than a week, even if not after every meal, that his stomach was not moving things past a certain point. That what empties out of the rectum might be something past the blockage. Basically, if it was their dog they would get him further looked at. Something could be wrong. It could be cancer. It could be an inflammatory disease. It could be a few bad things and Dr. Matt insinuated that we don't know if he could get surgery scheduled on Monday. He said he would not wait through the weekend. We were best to get him in today, just in case something bad happened over the weekend and we needed an emergency. Cuz then the cost would be double to triple.

So we are in a battle of, do we go into more debt, possibly to find something wrong? Or, do we skip the surgery today, hope for the best, and possibly face an emergency? Or hurt our dog more? I voted to get some real sleep tonight and to not stress about him so much. I voted to listen to the professional opinions. It might have been easier to just go the "natural" way, if we didn't already know he was full of food from top to bottom. Even still, he was throwing up everyday. There still has to be a reason for that. It's never good for a dog to have regular vomiting like that.

Boobies is now out of surgery and will stay the night for observation. Apparently, we got the best vet surgeon in Florida, and even Dr. Matt was surprised we got him on such short notice. He told Kyle that Boobies' was one of his most boring surgeries he's had in a while. There was nothing to be found. Everything looked normal. No obstructions were visible. They took biopsies of all possible organs that could be affected and we should know something in a few days. I am just at wits end.

I guess we just wait and see what the biopsies say. A part of me hopes they find something to indicate a curable problem, and part of me hopes they find nothing. Cuz he's my baby boy and I don't want any problems, like cancer or worse. So my fingers are crossed that we do get a positive outcome, whatever it is.