Kyle and I spent some quality time at the vet's in the middle of the night last night. Kyle woke me up at 1 am to tell me Lilly had suddenly started throwing up and she couldn't walk straight. She would walk sideways to the right and fall over. We called the vet and due to worry she was having a stroke he met us at the clinic. She has Geriatric Vestibular Disease which affects her equalibrium. Basically she constantly feels like she is moving. They throw up due to perceived motion sickness. She got a couple of shots and should fully recover in about 2 weeks. If we can't get her to eat or drink she will have to go back and be put on an IV. So we had a $180 adventure last night we hadn't planned on. This was after I came home from work to find my parents there because Kyle had fallen down the stairs and did a header into the wall. Luckily he wasn't hurt. All in all it was an eventful night.
I also learned that Kyle doesn't handle one of his "babies" being sick well at all. Lilly was my dog when we got married, but I have been completely thrown over for Kyle as shown in this picture. She doesn't give me the time of day. She never sits on my lap. If we are home alone she sits on the chair across the room. I will be interested if we are able to have children to see how Kyle handles them being sick. It's a good thing I have the ability to stay calm in an emergency, because he was a basket case.
Thank goodness she is doing so much better tonight. She can almost walk a straight line and she has been drinking some water. She is such a sweet dog. I hate to see her sick. She didn't even make a sound when Dr. Kemp gave her the shots. She rarely barks so I wouldn't know where she is half the time if I didn't have bells on her collar. Well and also the fact that she spends most her of her time sitting on the back of my love seat. We sure appreciate Dr. Kemp from the Cache Meadow Veterinary Clinic for coming to meet us. He is a great doctor. He save Marlee's dog Teddy's life a year or two ago so we quite like him.
