I haven’t been on the forum for a while due to being generally busy with one thing and another. Things have been going really well with Kaiser and Inca however last night Kaiser took a sudden turn for the worse.
I’d been out for a couple of hours and came back at 10:30pm to find Kaiser had brought a bit of phlegm up on the living room floor. I didn’t think too much of it as he has done it occasionally in the past if he’s had something irritating his throat. After cleaning up though he kept doing soft coughs and wretching to bring more phlegm up. I thought he might be starting with a touch of kennel cough. He carried on through the night on and off but seemed ok within himself.
This morning he seemed a little lethargic with it so I took him in to work to get checked. His heart seemed ok so his heart condition didn’t seem to be causing the issue so he had bloods and an ultrasound to check his prostate etc after his bout of prostatitis last year. The bloods showed the white blood cells were a little low and the ultrasound showed some material in his bladder which the vet said could be anything from blood cells, blood clots or something more sinister. She said she could either do xrays and take a urine sample which would mean waiting for results or given the fact he was acting basically the same when he had the prostatitis and rapidly went into V-Tach, we could refer him straight away to Leahurst in Liverpool that treated him for the prostatitis so that they would have a cardiologist on hand. So I opted to refer him.
Leahurst were unable to see him until tomorrow so I chose to refer him to vets now in Manchester. They gave me the choice of either stabilising him overnight so I could transfer him to Leahurst tomorrow or allow them to take over his full care. I asked for them to take over his full care as I didn’t want him going further downhill and I also didn’t want to be transporting him round when he’s unwell.
I dropped him off at Manchester earlier this afternoon and they said they are going to focus on his heart first and do an Echo as he’s having rapid breathing to check his heart and rule it out as the cause. They said they’re not ruling out his issue last year with Prostatitis and will do an ultrasound and will also be doing xrays as they can hear some noise on his lungs as well as other tests. They said if they get some results this evening then they will call me with them but if not I will get an update tomorrow.
I’m just praying that whatever the cause it’s treatable and he pulls through. It feels so wrong to be sitting here and only have Inca sitting next to me, even though Kaisers laid back and easy going the house seems so much quieter without him.
I’ve already cried over everything and tonight I’ll no doubt just spend the whole night worrying until I get some news. I’m just praying it’s good news.
I’d been out for a couple of hours and came back at 10:30pm to find Kaiser had brought a bit of phlegm up on the living room floor. I didn’t think too much of it as he has done it occasionally in the past if he’s had something irritating his throat. After cleaning up though he kept doing soft coughs and wretching to bring more phlegm up. I thought he might be starting with a touch of kennel cough. He carried on through the night on and off but seemed ok within himself.
This morning he seemed a little lethargic with it so I took him in to work to get checked. His heart seemed ok so his heart condition didn’t seem to be causing the issue so he had bloods and an ultrasound to check his prostate etc after his bout of prostatitis last year. The bloods showed the white blood cells were a little low and the ultrasound showed some material in his bladder which the vet said could be anything from blood cells, blood clots or something more sinister. She said she could either do xrays and take a urine sample which would mean waiting for results or given the fact he was acting basically the same when he had the prostatitis and rapidly went into V-Tach, we could refer him straight away to Leahurst in Liverpool that treated him for the prostatitis so that they would have a cardiologist on hand. So I opted to refer him.
Leahurst were unable to see him until tomorrow so I chose to refer him to vets now in Manchester. They gave me the choice of either stabilising him overnight so I could transfer him to Leahurst tomorrow or allow them to take over his full care. I asked for them to take over his full care as I didn’t want him going further downhill and I also didn’t want to be transporting him round when he’s unwell.
I dropped him off at Manchester earlier this afternoon and they said they are going to focus on his heart first and do an Echo as he’s having rapid breathing to check his heart and rule it out as the cause. They said they’re not ruling out his issue last year with Prostatitis and will do an ultrasound and will also be doing xrays as they can hear some noise on his lungs as well as other tests. They said if they get some results this evening then they will call me with them but if not I will get an update tomorrow.
I’m just praying that whatever the cause it’s treatable and he pulls through. It feels so wrong to be sitting here and only have Inca sitting next to me, even though Kaisers laid back and easy going the house seems so much quieter without him.
I’ve already cried over everything and tonight I’ll no doubt just spend the whole night worrying until I get some news. I’m just praying it’s good news.