Our Pup Molly Is In The Vet Hospital

We had to rush our little Molly to the Mill Bay Veterinary Hospital at 7pm on Wednesday night after she suffered what we thought was a seizure. Molly began writhing on the floor and couldn’t stand on her own legs so we phoned and rushed her to the vet clinic.

After a quick but thorough examination, the Vet told us she was fairly certain that Molly didn’t suffer a seizure or stroke but blood work might help determine the cause of what happened.

We waited for 30 minutes until the first blood tests results came back. The vet said Molly’s red cell counts were low and her white cells high. She told us that there was definitely some kind of infection going on so she was going to put Molly on an antibiotic IV and recommended keeping her in overnight.

We hated to leave Molly at the hospital where she would have to spend the night all alone in a kennel but what else could we do. We spent a very restless night worrying about our little pup and didn’t get much sleep at all. Rylie wasn’t much better as she really misses her big sister.

I went to the Vet’s at 8am Thursday morning to see Molly and find out how she was doing. To my complete surprise Molly wasn’t there! The staff told me that a very caring and compassionate Vet, Clare, who was treating Molly had taken her home Wednesday night because she wanted to look after her personally. How about that? Dr. Clare arrived at the clinic with Molly about 8:15am and it sure was nice to see her actually walking albeit very slowly.

The Vet went in to look at the results of further blood work they had done the night before while I took Molly for a short walk out in the grassy backyard of the clinic. When I came back the Vet told me that Molly had a rather severe Pancreatic infection likely caused by something she ate or got into on one of our hikes. She recommended keeping her for another night on the antibiotic IV but she assured me she would take Molly home with her for another night.

Molly at 9 weeks shortly after we brought her home

We noticed Molly had been rather lethargic for a few days and on Wednesday afternoon she didn’t want to walk when we took her to the park. I stayed in the car with Molly while Paulette took Rylie around the trail. We decided that if Molly was not any better by Thursday morning we’d take her to the Vet but, of course, we never made it that far. The Vet told us what we thought might have been a seizure was more likely just extreme weakness and pain from the Pancreatic infection.

It just goes to show, once again, that we never really know what’s exactly going on with our pets for sure as they can’t tell us. Molly was obviously in a lot more discomfort than we ever imagined but she suffered in silence without us really suspecting there might be a serious problem.

It’s about 2pm PDT as I’m writing this and we’ll be off to see Molly at the clinic in a few more hours to check in and see how she’s doing. It sounds like we won’t be able to bring her home tonight as much as we’d love to but at least we know she won’t be left alone and instead will be going home with Clare, IV’s and all.  It sure is great to see a professional taking such personal interest in caring for our little Molly.

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