“Why does this happen to Good Dogs?”

Remember how I said our Vet thought that Gus had Valley Fever… (Spoiler Alert that’s about to come into play)

We drop Gus off first thing in the morning. The Doctor and Nurse walk us through everything.

My wife is in tears kissing Gus. My wife told our doctor  “I don’t want Gus thinking we amputated his leg because he was a bad dog”. Our vet was tearing up and looked at her and replied “Gus would never think that, he is going to be so relieved not to be in pain anymore that he will be happy. I think of Gus as if he is my own and I will take care of him.”

We say our goodbyes and wait.

We get a phone call about an hour later. Its the nurse they ran a blood test and Gus’ liver enzymes are elevated. You remember how we thought he had valley fever. Well because he was limping the vet put him on rimadyl and guess what a side effect of rimadyl is… that’s right may cause liver damage. So they said they were going to feed him and wait a couple of hours and do another blood test.

We waited and we get a call from our Vet. The vet told my wife that with his liver enzymes slightly elevated that she didn’t feel comfortable doing the surgery, at least not with her anesthesiologist.   She was afraid that they would not be able to wake Gus up.

My wife was crying and asked the doctor “Why would this happen to a great dog like Gus” and our vet said without missing a beat ‘Because if it happened to a “bad” dog no one would care”.

The Vet said she called down to the same Emergency Room we went to and said they can operate on him tonight. We just have to get him down there.

We pick up Gus and Rush him down there. We arrived around 4:00 pm and all of the doctors already went home for the day. They apparently got the message mixed up. So we scheduled an appointment with one of the best surgeons in Arizona for the next day.

Poor Gus is now going on 3 days with a broken leg 🙁

Dr. Moleander explaining why they cannot operate on Gus there.. (look at his poor leg)

June 8, 2017

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