Sorry, follow up question - what gift can I give our vet to say thank you? Do their offices like donuts, flowers?? We’re going to bring in a bunch of unused dog toys to donate to their shelter box (our dog didn’t swallow a dog toy but we are now paranoid). Thank you!
3 days ago, our healthy 6 year old King Charles Cavalier started throwing up. Husband took her to vet that morning, they thought she had GI bug and gave her anti nausea medicine. Still wasn’t herself, wouldn’t eat, whining, threw up again. We brought her back to our vet the next day, a different vet saw her (our normal vet) and was immediately worried about bowel obstruction. Xray was not definitive, but an US clearly showed a foreign body. Husband immediately took her to the local doggy ER. We were lucky that the top guy there (a local legend) just happened to be on, and he performed emergency surgery within 2 hours. He called me to explain that there was a lava rock lodged between her stomach and duodenum, said it was extremely thin there and she would have perforated likely within hours.
She made it through, did well overnight and we brought her home yesterday afternoon! She’s recovering from the anesthesia but otherwise ok - we’re watching her like a hawk, she’s wearing her little surgical suit and taking it easy. We’re adhering to all postop instructions, meds, etc.
We feel extremely lucky and fortunate but I can’t stop thinking about what a close call this was.
What could have happened if our vet didn’t act so quickly to get her to surgery (she called two local ERs and directed us right over)? I feel like our pup could have died. I am so upset with ourselves and the situation. We don’t even have lava rocks she must have somehow swallowed one on a walk. We always have her crated if we’re not with her and watch her constantly bc she will eat anything. We are so vigilant and I don’t know how it happened - I feel so horribly guilty.
Just wondering how close we were to devastation. Thank you in advance. I can’t stop worrying.
43F married to 50M, I’ve posted on here several times and appreciate all the kindness and advise. Trying to decide whether to do one more. We are both healthy, BMI 22, exercise, no alcohol/smoking, no endo or PCOS. I have well controlled hypothyroidism (TSH 1.0).
At 41 we did one ER, I think we collected 10 eggs and got 7 blasts, 3 were euploid. I did three fully medicated FET, none implanted. Did limited work up for RPL and normal ( I know about RI, have looked into it but ultimately haven’t gone that route). We switched clinics.
After just turning 43, started another round of ERs. We completed the 4th in April - and of almost 30 blasts (most good quality AA, AB or BA) - all were aneuploid (not even a mosaic). We were devastated. Thought for sure I was done. Have been considering DE vs adoption, vs giving up.
Just got a call from the financial person at our clinic, she had advocated for me and the clinic director offered to give us a 4th round at 25% off - so, with meds another $15K to do one more ER. Our last round we had *9* blasts sent off for testing - I’m still making good blasts, which means there’s a chance, but at 43 odds are low, I know that.
Would you go for one more round in my shoes? Reading in the donor conception subreddit there is just so much hostility toward donor eggs, and I worry that we’d make some sort of unethical choice. I love my clinic, but the only donor programs they use don’t allow disclosure until 18 (which is not considered truly open).
Thank you all in advance - this is an incredible community.