08.09.08
Beamer… Still Very Sick
We just got home from checking on Beamer… As Logan’s celebration was wrapping up, Kim got a call from the Vet letting us know that Beamer was not doing too well. During the evening, Beamer threw up blood 3 times and had diarrhea with blood in it also. The vet also said that the insulin they were giving him for his high glucose levels was not helping.
When we got to the vet’s office, Beamer looked a little better than when we had left him this afternoon. He was actually upright as he was lying down… as opposed to lying on his side. He was still very weak, though, and couldn’t stand or hold his head up for too long.
The vet went over the options with us… which included doing an exploratory surgery. Since they wouldn’t be able to do the surgery until late tomorrow afternoon anyway, we opted to have them run a barium series tonight. For this test, Beamer will drink – or they’ll put a tube down his throat – a solution that will help the vet see his gastro-intestinal (GI) system with x-rays. They will run a series of x-rays to track the solution as it moves through the GI system. We should have the results tomorrow morning.
Keep your fingers crossed that they find something.