Buzzupdate

I am afraid to say it out loud -- no vomiting since yesterday morning at 4:00 am (or 3:00, I can't remember....). So we've gone over 30 hours with no puking..................

(KNOCKING ON WOOD!)

The vet sent us home with cerenia tablets. He had (half of) one at 9:45 this morning -- about 24 hours after he had the shot yesterday.

So far, so good.

He was absolutely limp for a few hours after yesterday's cerenia shot. I went to the Pfizer website, and it said that ("while side effects are rare,") some dogs will have lethargy. Well, better that than the diarrhea they also might get!

He was more lively by late afternoon, and last night was pretty normal.

I talked to our vet in the afternoon. I told her that I don't care if he's lethargic -- as long as it doesn't mean something bad is happening to him. If he's sleepy, and not puking, and his gut is getting better and better -- good by me.

She said that half of a tablet was a bit less than the recommended dose for his weight, and it would probably be fine.

We left to get flu shots right after I gave him the pill this morning, so I don't know how he was for the first couple of hours, but he was fine when I got home and is fine now. No puking while I was gone, I believe (at least none I found -- I blocked him in the kitchen while I was gone). Yippie. So I gave him another tablespoon of i/d (canned food they sent him home with last fall after a major GI incident that never was labeled, after two days of hospitalization and every test in the book.....).

Keep your fingers crossed.

He is acting just like himself, and is HUNGRY. It's hard not to feed him.....

In other exciting news, I took him and Wilbur for a stroll around a couple of blocks yesterday in the late afternoon, and Buzz produced some 90% normal poop (diarrhea likely when vomiting goes on for more than a day).

Whew.

I read caninecancer@yahoogroups.com.

I know how (very VERY) much worse things could be. This isn't fun, but we'll take it, in comparison to how bad so many dogs feel.