Bella continued to show little improvement on her antibiotics so I stopped giving them to her and thursday morning I gave her a dose of metacam (painkiller) to help make her feel more comfortable and went to work. I then rang another vets practice to go for a 2nd opinion and to just see if they had any ideas on what to do or if they believed me over the whole BPS theory.
When I got home to a very vocal and waggy tailed Bell I really thought we were turning a corner and she was throwing her food bowl around and she ate a normal meal of kibble for the first time since last tuesday and she was pestering me and my friend for cuddles running, yes running between us for kisses and suddenly began humping me and howling and went to lick her "bits" when I noticed straw colour discharge and within a couple of minutes it had turned to red blood dripping out (just like with season) and so straight back on phone to our vets who said this is not normal post spay and they need to operate on her to see whats going on and looks like foreign body reaction to sutures.
This may be why she has sore neck as bloods do indicate high inflammetary process going on but it could still be that she had a pre exsisting neck problem which was aggrivated during surgery.
We saw 2nd opinion who agreed it could be the BPS and to maybe try some steroids to see if any improvement and they advised to not put her through another operation so soon (9 days after 1st) and to see how she is in the morning.
So I starved her from 8pm just incase she was to be operated on and we took her in to the vet at 8am. She had made such a remarkable improvement in 24 hours and had no more blood loss so we decided to leave her be and finally got signed off post spay. She has lost more weight but fir the first time in over 2 weeks her temperature was normal and her neck was much easier to move and no pain on doing so. Vet was very pleased, as were we and we go back at the first sign of neck pain or any signs of pain again and they will refer her for CT scan and do a spinal tap on her too. We are now allowed to treat her as "normal" so walks are back on and she can have a bath which I must do actually as she stinks lol!!
That evening I got a call from georgie (vet) to say bells vaginal swab results are back which we did mon/tues with 1st set of bloods to see what was going on "that end".....the lab can't identify the bacteria, it's a totally new strain and unknown to them or their database!
it's also resistant to ALL antib's used on it and reacts with them!!! Hence putting her on 3x antib's has made her worse!! I stopped them sun pm she perked up mon, went on new ones mon pm got worse so stopped these weds pm and by thurs she was better! The lab is going to continue to grow the cultures and ring me next week with some more answers.
someone please say this is it as I'm worn out and so confused. The vet said she will ring in a few weeks to find out how she's doing as this is getting weirder and weirder by the day and she wishes she could stay and discover more and if lab proves this is a new virus could prove quite incredible! She says she's not only a walking mystery but a medical one in a million dog!!!
It explains the huge reaction to antib's and ongoing discharge as a pup and inf during season etc but as yet what it is is anyones guess!!!
Im so sad though that her vet has now left and moved practices :( she was SO good and her new practice are very lucky to have her. Today Bella is 100% her usual naughty self :) Shes obviously losing the female hormone as she is as randy as anything!!
So lets see what this week has in store for us and Bell shall we!! xxx
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