HELP ASAP PLEASE!! Ellie's spay

Good morning!

Hope that Ellie (and you!) managed to get some rest last night. How are things looking this morning?

I've seen abdominal adhesions in both dogs and humans. They can cause parts of you to stick together that were never intended to. I used to see a lot of them in women, specifically in the lower abdomen... uterus, kidneys, bladder, ovaries. Beats me what causes them.

I hope that you both have a better day today :smile2:
 
So sorry to hear about Ellie's spay experience! I hope she is better this morning and you both weathered the night and the storms. Please let us know how she's doing.

If she still seems to be having problems or is uncomfortable, I think I'd take her to a different vet just to make sure everything is OK and she's healing properly. Do they have her on antibiotics? She should probably be on some after a spay and especially given the kind of surgery she had. A visit to a different vet is probably a good idea, just in case.
 
Lahree said:
Thanks everyone for your replies. She is just now sleeping. We had a tornado watch here and I had to take Ellie, in her crate and the cat, and her crate, into the bathroom with me! Ellie is not afraid of storms BUT I WAS!!!! (So was the cat, lol!). That's actually where Ellie finally started to sleep. I had to eventually come out of the bathroom, however. Not much to do in there. :lol: When I moved the crate out of the bathroom, the crying and howling and frantic behavior started alll over again. Sigh. I let her out to drink and she had a little tiny amount of her dry food hand fed to her piece by piece. She was very hungry (she always is) and had no trouble eating with the collar on. I think she thought she saw something to eat on the couch and quick as a flash put one of her paws on the couch to raise herself up to peek, so she quickly was put into her crate again and the crying and whining started all over again. EVENTUALLY, she just got too tired to keep her head up and I guess she figured the collar wasn't going anywhere and she is sleeping soundly now. She is clearly uncomforatable, however and it just totally kills me. She tries so hard to get at those stitches--and she can almost reach them even with that collar on! :eek2: We are going to have to watch her every second! I don't know how I am going to sleep through teh night! I know I am going to wake up every 10 minutes to look and see what she is doing. I also think she won't sleep through the night and we are in for a lot more whining and howling. DH is at a band rehearsal and I am hoping he will come home sometime soon to relieve me!
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Yes, that was quite the storm last night. The warning sirens were going off & it was so loud with the wind, rain & thunder. Did Ellie get any pain meds? I know Max had several days worth after his snip. I know it had to help. Let me know if you need anything. I also have Max's E-collar from his surgery, too.
 
I hope you and Ellie were able to sleep last night. I agree with everyone else, I would take Ellie to your regular vet and have her checked out and see if they will give you some pain meds for her. Poor girl. I feel so bad for her. Hope things are better today. Hope the weather has cleared too. I knew it was the beginning of summer the other night here, we had a tornado warning too. Our state really doesn't have that many but the county I live in seems to be prone to sightings, all flat land and all farm fields - perfect! Give Ellie hugs from me and the girls!
 
I hope that Ellie is doing better today! Hope her mommy got some sleep too! Have a good day ! Just wanted to stop in and send some well wishes to you two ladies! Our prayers are with both of you!
 
Thinking about you both, and hoping you had a better day. Do not hesitate to go to your regular vet if things are not better tomorrow. Getting that professional opinion will make everyone (including us! :sadsmile:) sleep better!
 
Lahree, I just saw your thread -- I am so very sorry for you both. You might want to try putting a little shirt on Ellie and knotting it loosely up on her back. That will provide an extra barrier for the stitches.

I agree with many folks here -- sounds like a common reaction to anesthesia -- people do it to (cry, are restless). As much as you can, keep her near you, out of the crate when youcan be right with her. She's wanting comfort for sure!
 
Thank you so much everyone for your thoughts, prayers, good wishes and advice. I don't know what we would do without you.

Ellie had a terrible, terrible night. She whined, fussed, howled and thrashed until 5:45 AM. I had her crate next to the bed, so she could easily see me, but it wasn't any comfort. At 5:45 she finally was so exhausted that she fell asleep, which I meant I was finally able to. Our electricity went out and my alarm didn't go off, so I woke up with a start at 7:45. Two hours sleep and I had to go to work. I called out regular vet from work and told them the whole deal and they said bring her in now and leave her here and we'll give her a total check-up, so I had DH take her in.

My vet was able to get ahold of the spay and neuter vet and he explained that what the exact problem was (which the receptionist and the tech at the S&N had COMPLETELY wrong!!). It was Ellie's uterus (not kidney) that had an adhesion to the protective abdominal sac in the gut. When he had to separate them, it caused a whole bunch of bleeding into her abdomen. He had to open her farther and deeper to make sure he got all the blood out. When we got her to our vet, she had a high fever and was in obvious pain. They gave her a pain shot and a large dose of antibiotics and looked at her wound and then put on another compression bandage which she has to wear for the next four days. They called me later in the day and told me that the pain shot worked well because she was sitting up in the cage and was barking at the staff!! :lol: :lol: How odd for a Sheltie, right? :rolleyes2:

Since she has been home she has drank plenty of water, eaten well (as usual) and slept, slept, slept. She is not bothered by the pillow collar any more and on occasionally tries to go after the stitches. I also had the vet look at her bottom cannine tooth on her right side which came in totally wrong and is leaning into the INSIDE of her mouth. It has now poked a hole into the roof of her mouth. The really sad part is that after she has totally recovered from this spay gone wrong fiasco, she will HAVE to have that tooth removed--which is a big deal because of the length of the root. It has to be done, however, as the danger is that the tooth will poke through her mouth into her sinus cavity. It is unfortunate that I didn't know it was that bad, otherwise i could ahve had Ellie spayed and the tooth pulled at one time. Now she has to have anesthesia again and have surgery again.

The staff at the S&N clinic were rude, snippy, treated my dog roughly and then gave me inaccurate information on what happend to her during surgery and then acted as if I was insane or an idiot because I wanted to ask the vet some questions about what happened. They would not return my phone calls this morning, but my vet was magically able to get through to them when HE called and immediately able to speak to the S&N vet about Ellie's case--something which me, the dog owner--was denied. The ironic thing is, that I thought Ellie would receive good care and it would be less expensive for me to go to the S&N clinic, however, with the aftercare and treatment we had to have for Ellie it now has cost us exactly the same amount that our regular vet would have charged to spay her. I realize that no matter who operated on her, she had a medical problem that would have had to been addressed, but to not give the dog owner accurate information on what went wrong during surgery is unbelievable and not being able to speak to the vet about your concerns and questions afterwards is just plain WRONG.

Again, thanks so much to all of you! Words just cannot express how much it means to me to have a great group of people to turn to when I have questions or concerns and who just plain "get" me. :smile2:
 
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