Music: Feeling Fine
Musician: Uncleboris
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Photography: Amy Wilburn
what i messaged to my friends & family:
there’s something wrong with our dog dabi. he was trembling in pain and we don’t know why. dave took him to the emergency vet. could you please say a little prayer for dave and dabi? 💔
UPDATE❗️dabi has crystals forming in his urine, a bladder infection, and his prostate is enlarged. the vet expressed his urine including the crystals, is prescribing an antibiotic and she will neuter him tonight. we’ll put him on a dog food that is designed for kidney issues. he’ll have to stay at the clinic for 24-48 hours. he’s nervous when he doesn’t have his family nearby. please pray that he does well with his surgery and isn’t too stressed while staying away from home. ❤️
UPDATE #️⃣2️⃣: dabi had to be neutered because it turns out he has something called benign prostatic hypertrophy. his prostate is really swollen, basically. some dogs (and people 😅) get that. the neutering will help because testosterone causes the prostate to swell like that.
dave spent about 15 minutes with dabi this morning. (around 5am 😅 …he went to see him before work.) dabi was whining and wants to come home, of course.
the vet said the surgery went well. dabi is not too happy, though. he has a cone on and a catheter in and they had to give him something for anxiety last night because he was "a handful."
(we knew he would be, of course. he becomes VERY anxious separated from us.) dave told them that this is why he'd like dabi to come home tonight (because he'll be so upset to have to stay another night), but the vet has to make sure he's peeing well before she sends him home. (when he got there last night his bladder was painfully full, but he couldn't urinate because his prostate was so swollen.)
maybe say a prayer that dabi can pee and therefore come home tonight? 😅😭❤️❤️❤️
dave is going to check in with the vet around 1pm. dave told me when he called me that he noticed during his visit that a blood vessel had burst in dabi’s eye. 😔 (that happened to our basenji “little girl” in the past when she got all stressed out when a mean man cut her nails at the vet on governor’s drive. he dragged her back into the room with me, clearly mad at her. he said she’d pooped everywhere. i don’t think we ever went back to that vet after that.)
anyways, i told dave to tell the vet: “mention again how extremely stressed dabi gets when away from us. ask them if they noticed he burst a blood vessel in his eye. tell them we have to hire house sitters to spend the night and let him sleep in bed with them when we go out of town, he’s so nervous to be separated from us. 😩 tell them that of course you understand he needs to stay if he isn’t peeing on his own yet. but that if at all possible it seems like he could come home tonight, that would be best for his sake. 😭❤️❤️❤️”
UPDATE #️⃣3️⃣: dabi is home, thank God! 🥰 he is exhausted. we’re pretty sure he probably didn’t sleep at all last night. (we know basenjis. 🥹) and he was given doggy valium… 5mg❗️ 😩❤️ we are so happy that all went well with his emergency care @ huntsville veterinary specialists & emergency on governor’s drive. he is snoozing in an unusual spot at home now (in the middle of the carpet). i’m sure he’s happy to be home. prisca is being a good girl and leaving him alone (after her initial excited greeting). thank you so much for your prayers, friends and family. ❤️❤️❤️
*pic of dabi from yesterday (before he became sick). ❤️
*2nd pic is a text terri sent me saying that the vet saying dabi is a handful is an understatement.
*3rd pic is of poor dabi medicated with 5 mg of valium. he came inside and just plopped down on the carpet and went to sleep. 😭❤️❤️❤️