Here are a few photos from Topaz’s birthday celebration!
The birthday boy himself
I like this one better!
Onyx getting her party on!
Happiness is birthday yöghund on a hot summery birthday day!
Topaz enjoys his in the grass.
Onyx keeps hers on the deck
*sigh* ...all gone...
Happy birthday, Puppa boy! 5 years!
Antibiotic meds that is…I started getting nervous because I didn’t really see any change with the Apis, so I started him back on the Keflex and we added the Amoxicillin on 7/2 at night. We gave the Apis a good 24 hours. I should have probably given it 48, but I felt so bad because his face was so swollen and I wanted him to get some relief.
We’ve been on giving him the pills and the swelling has actually gone down a bit.
I just hope we can keep it that way and he hangs tight till surgery day. Then i can worry about that…ugh.
12 more days till surgery day.
Ok…so food changes:
Topaz hasn’t been taking his pills well in the usual breakfast mix (Oma’s Pride Turkey Mix, Oma’s Pride 5-Way Veggie mix, & canned pumpkin). He doesn’t really like canned pumpkin and will spit it out onto the floor, so we really try not to give him spoonfuls with the least amount of pumpkin as possible…not always possible though.
Since he NEEDS to take his meds (PB, KBr) we needed to figure something else out. We got a little 2# (I think it is) container of Oma’s Pride beef mix thinking that maybe that would make a difference, which it definitely has.
This morning, he ate his breakfast super slow…again, i am thinking too much pumpkin…so we decided to shake things up a bit and my husband bought the Oma’s Pride chicken mix instead of the turkey. And we still got the 5-way veg, although we do also have a 3-way veg that I’ll have to use too.
So those are the recent changes. Hopefully the swelling will continue to go down and all will be well. We’re keeping a good eye on it.
On a different note, today 7/4 is the day that Topaz told the pet psychic he’d like us to celebrate his birthday, so we’re going to do so tomorrow with some yöghund frozen yogurt for dogs. We got him and Onyx the Organic Banana and Peanut Butter flavor.
Organic Banana & Peanut Butter
Our Organic Banana & Peanut Butter recipe features potassium rich bananas, which are also a great source of the prebiotic inulin, along with peanuts for flavor and antioxidants. And of course, its primary ingredient is organic, low fat yogurt with live and active cultures, complete with all the benefits of probiotics.
I’m sure they will love it! I’m going to try to get my hands on some party hats and see if we can get a photo! LOL I’ll post it if I do!!
With a VENGANCE!
No, it’s back though, which is NOT good. My poor puppa boy!
I noticed it when we got home from work. It’s as bad, if not worse than it was when it first swelled up.
It came on as quickly as it did last time too. Late afternoon.
I called the vet and unfortunately it wasn’t out vet who normally takes care of him and the notes from the 2nd visit didn’t make it into his file, and I basically had to ask the vet on the phone to shut it so i could explain this to her. Ugh.
Anyway, so they were supposed to call us back – they never did, btw. Nice vet.
Actually, I love the vet who sees Topaz. Unfortunately, the Vet who ran the office passed away last year and it’s been taken over by someone new and now the reg staff is almost all gone and vets are resigning. But their hours are GREAT and they can almost ALWAYS get us right in. Hopefully our vet won’t leave too.
I posted about the swelling on Facebook and the owner of The Pet Beastro commented and asked if we’d consider homeopathy.
I’ll consider anything at this point. So we got to talking and I tried to look at that side and see what I could see, and to me it really looks like the tooth. I don’t notice any ooozing or pus or even redness and he really doesn’t seem bothered by it.
So she recommended something called Apis. We picked it up from her and are going to try it. We just gave it to him (11:10pm) and will be on “seizure watch” but hopefully it will help and we’ll remain seizure free.
We’re going to stop the antibiotics for a couple days too, and let this stuff have a chance to work if it’s going to.
We did get Amoxicilian from the vet to add to the Keflex, and we’ll start that in a couple days if the swelling doesn’t improve or we see any other changes. I’m kind of leery of that, but obviously the antibiotics aren’t doing what they’re supposed to do anyway.
Surgery is scheduled for July 16th.
Well the antibiotics are doing their thing and the swelling has gone down quite a bit on Topaz’s face. It’s almost to where it was when we first asked the vet. Almost.
But, this is good! The antibiotics are working and so far, no seizures!
Yay!
Still gonna have to get that tooth looked at and/or extracted. Not looking forward to that…or the bill from that!
But, my puppa is doing much better!
Topaz was actually really good at the vet. He wasn’t too worked up and didn’t need a muzzle. The vet came in and looked at his face and had me lift his lip so she could see his tooth.
She thinks the molar is bad, possibly chipped, and most likely needs to be removed. So we got an estimate: $325.00 - $450.00. I guess it’s not too bad, but we rarely have this much money to spend on anything. But if it’s needed, we’ll make it work.
Of course, I’m worried about him having surgery and having a seizure, but I guess we’ll cross that road when we come to it.
She did give us antibiotics for him – Keflex (Cephalexin) – and so far so good on not having a seizure. Hopefully that continues!
We gave Topaz Benadryl and no change, so we’re going to take him into the vet and see what’s going on.
Our appointment is at 8:00pm, the vet is doing emergency surgery right now so we have to wait till then. Gives me a chance to get ready and we’re going to try to give him some Valium an hour before we are to leave and see if that helps him calm down any…it didn’t before, but we maybe didn’t give it enough time to kick in before. Hopefully it will work this time and calm him down!
Pictures of his face:
Will definitely update…
Topaz has a swelling on the left side of his face. We just took him to the vet on Thursday and everything looked good (Kbr and heartworm test both good as well). I am assuming it’s a bug bite or sting, so we gave him 50mg of Benadryl to see if it goes down.
It literally came out of no where which is why I’m thinking it’s a bug bite.
He did have a bump but the doctor looked at it and said it was hard like bone and seemed to be either his normal or on the bone. We may do an xray later on to see if it’s just his skull or something else.
So we’re going to keep an eye on him for now. He’s horrible at the vet and gets ALL worked up so we don’t want to have to take him in for anything if we don’t have to.
Poor baby! Will update later with a picture too.
