Poor little Louis has had and embarrassing problem. On Saturday he appeared to have difficulty pooing this was much worse on Sunday and he collapsed half way through his afternoon walk. I had to carry him most of the way home. As he is a solid (fat?) little dog and weighs 15 Kg I had to put him down and he walked the last 100 M. I think I carried him for about a kilometre. I managed to get into see an after hours vet who took X-Rays which showed that he was blocked up pretty solidly. She kept him in overnight, gave him an enema and put him on a drip for hydration and giving antibiotics. In the morning he was no better and in some distress so they anaesthetised him and using instruments cleared the bowel. I picked him up at 4.30 pm and he was still groggy but I was told to take him for a short walk as there was still a plug to come out and he was being coy in the hospital. Luckily the walk in his home park did the trick and he is performing OK this morning, He is still very quiet so I cut his walk short.
There was no obvious cause for the blockage but a as a precaution chicken wings are out from now on and all bones are banned for four weeks to allow his tummy to recover. The only pain left is to our bank account which is nearly $1,000 lighter.
Over the weekend Margaret has been very emotional and actually lost her temper with a nurse. She appears to have had too much Valium and they are weaning her off it. The DVD keeps her happy and the nurses busy sorting it out when she switches it off. On Sunday morning I walked in to find her in tears complaining that she had been "locked up". Actually the nurse who she had been rude to on the previous day had found her fast asleep right on the edge of her bed and had raised the rails to prevent her falling out. On waking Margaret has panicked as she could not get out. She began to scream and the nurse soon sorted her out and was comforting her when I arrived. The silly thing is the rail was only up on one side of the bed and Margaret had forgotten about the nurse's call button which was right next to her.
After her shower she said that she wasn't going to bed again as "they locked her in!" Margaret has bars on her bed at home to stop her rolling which she used to do regularly so the nurse's action was well justified.
While I was away having my morning coffee she was visited by her specialist. On my return she said that she was being discharged!! I managed to catch up with the specialist who said that he had arranged for her to be discharged on Wednesday. This was a big surprise as the first hospital had said seven weeks minimum before she would be safe to send home on a wheely walker and her specialist had originally said six weeks at Noosa Hospital which would have been a couple of days under seven weeks total. Wednesday is five weeks and two days so she must have had a miracle healing. I shall follow this up with the specialist this morning.
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