Questions are fine. @tyme. It helps me to process it all.
She was really struggling badly in the walk and at one stage dad had to pick her up. They stop and have a drink and some treats while they are out. Pix just collapsed on the ground. She didn’t want treats which is the biggest red flag that there is. Her legs just went from underneath her and she was struggling to breathe. Mum felt her and she was extremely hot and not breathing properly. Mum scooped her up and they rushed back to the car. Mum called the vet to meet them at the surgery. On the way there they called into home and grabbed an ice pack. Mum was sitting in the car with her with the aircon on as low as it could go blasting straight on Pix and put the ice brick on her belly. Wrapped in a tea towel obviously. Pix hates when we do that but she just laid there. When the vet got there mum got pix out of the car and the vet saw Pix walk and scooped her up straight away and said no walking. To make a little more sense. Where they walk is about 5 minutes from home and their house is literally around the corner from the vet. Like not even a 5 minute walk. She had a steroid injection and an antihistamine injection, oxygen and cold wet towels wrapped around her. She stayed like that for an hour and a half until the vet was happy for her to go home. If she still had a cough and breathing differently on the Monday I had to rush her around for X-rays. But she seemed a lot better, better breathing and mum said she improved heaps on Sunday.
Just she was jumping at me when I walked in. Just like normal, it was about an hour after she got out of hospital. She was still coughing after being excited which is why mum tried to calm her down. Pix snores when she sleeps, that night she slept under my bed, I’m guessing it was a lot cooler than on my bed. I couldn’t hear her breathing and she wasn’t snoring. I had to keep getting out of bed to check on her. I didn’t get a lot of sleep before work but she was more important than sleep. She has started snoring again and it wakes me up but it’s a normal snore, her snore has been pretty laboured for weeks. She is currently outside barking and not coughing so that’s a bonus.
Please ask away. Just ignore if I repeat myself. I’m happy going through it. Each time I talk about it it gets a little easier.
I told my psych yesterday and she was great about it. She also gave me strategies for getting to hospital and entering. Visualisation exposure therapy, actually looking at the building in photos and the reception desk. Strategies for while I’m in the waiting room waiting to go in.
Im glad the picnic was ok, it sounds like an amazing idea and an awesome way to be able to get together.
I love kids playing in the street the way we did when we were kids.
