As I write this, Shadow is in hospital. It has been very worrying. Everything seemed quite ok until just after we had our tea yesterday. She went out to the toilet as normal and seemed to be fine. Then when she came back in she lay down next to Mum and passed out. She\u2019d never done that other than in the morning. Shadow’s was breathing very raggedly and she didn\u2019t seem right at all. Mum held her to see if she just needed to come round, but soon realised there was something more going on. It didn\u2019t help when poor Shadow emptied her bowels all over the office carpet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mum thought some fresh air would do her good. Quite honestly with all the poo, some fresh air was going to do all of us good. Anyway, when she took Shadow out poor Shadow just stood there with absolutely no idea where she was and not moving. That was the point Mum realised it was serious and rang the vet for an emergency appointment. They were great and said that they would see Shadow just as soon as Mum could get her there. Mum had to carry her out to the car as by then Shadow couldn\u2019t really walk. I think if she could have found a blue flashing light from somewhere she\u2019d have put it on the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow was carried in to the vet and it didn\u2019t take much for the vet to see there was a problem. He examined her and said she\u2019d got a problem with fluid on her lungs and possibly infection. She was given injections to help with both and then admitted for ongoing monitoring and further treatment as necessary. Mum said it was horrible having to discuss what should be done in the event of Shadow needing resuscitation. The vet was very good and gave Mum straight answers to questions. The biggest risk is with her dicky ticker. If her heart couldn\u2019t cope with the strain it would be a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, Mum received a call from the night vet just before nine to say that Shadow seemed to have stabilised. She hadn\u2019t needed a follow up injection but they would give one if it seemed necessary. We\u2019re waiting to hear how she\u2019s got on overnight. If it\u2019s good news Mum is hoping she\u2019s going to be able to go to pick her up and bring her home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019ve all got everything crossed for her. We love you, Shadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shadow is in hospital and it’s been an eventful twenty-four hours. Wilma wants her little friend to be better and sends her love.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-27046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}