Maggie

Maggie

Friday November 2, 2018

We have been home almost a week now, I am usually so busy when we return from a road trip that I procrastinate wrapping up the travel blog I been writing at night to occupy my mind. I have been having sleepless nights as I struggle with a terrible foreboding.

Towards the tail end of our trip we noticed Maggie just wasn’t herself. Fearing she got Valley Fever (A respiratory disease of the desert southwest) we made an appointment with our vet as soon as we got home. They checked her out, ran a few tests and then told us we need to take her to a Specialties hospital in Charleston, right now! She is retaining fluid that is putting pressure on her heart and lungs.

We drove straight to Charleston and admitted Maggie into their emergency department. More testing, more evaluations, much guessing, and the result being we had to leave her there for more testing the next day.

Maggie was in Charleston for the longest two nights of our lives. The doctors called every day but have not been able to learn the cause of her problem. Thursday morning we decided to drive down and get her. If she was going to die we wanted her to be in our arms and not alone in a hospital two hours drive away.

On the drive down, the doctor called and suggested we come and get her. They don’t know what to do pending some lab tests that had to be sent to a specialist. It may take several days to get the results and she didn’t see any sense in keeping Maggie in the hospital all weekend.

We’re home now, Maggie is resting but fitfully, it’s like she can’t stay in one position for too long. She did eat a little when we got home. She’s had fluid removed from her chest cavity several times in the last few days and we’re researching the local 24 hour hospital to see if we can take her there if starts having respiratory difficulty, as we fear the fluid will return.

So we’re trying to keep her comfortable until the test results come in and hopefully they will tell us something definitive. She’s still a very sick little girl