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Thank you, coogie. Danny says: thanks, but I would prefer a big raw meaty bone. And then of course, I'd throw it all back up. :(

I am starting to see a slight improvement in his demeanour and he is not nearly as wobbly as he was. He really was knocked for a six poor little fellow.

I have kept a running chart since bringing him home and it isn't good in terms of his regurgitation (10 since just after midnight), but he is keeping more down than bringing up and the last two little helpings of his slurry have been eaten eagerly.

Keeping them down is the problem, although the one at 4.30pm was about 80mls and kept down. I gave him some more just now with his Ranitidine in it and he lapped it down like there was no tomorrow.

He has licked clean the other dogs' bowls - after I'd made sure there was actually nothing in them :).

I have to race down to Woollies as the specialist said he could have lactose free yoghurt (if there is such a things - soy I suppose) and a small amount of cottage cheese and eggs.

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not soy ..just lactose free milk product :) Ask if you are unsure .

I eat lactose free yoghurt - Vaalia and Liddells make good vanilla ones - also lactose free cheese if Danny can have any of that. Always available in Coles and Woolworths and other places. Pers is correct, don't get soy. Goats milk yoghurt is usually well tolerated but isn't lactose free.

Best of luck with the tests and ongoing care for little Danny.

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Thanks stellnme. IMy local Woollies didn't have Liddells or Vaalia lactos free so I will go down to Westfield today.

Next appt at SASH on Tuesday, dougal, when they will do a Fluoroscopy to see what state his oesophagus is in and whether he would be helped by fixing the hernia.

Frankly seeing how knocked he was by the anaesthetic for the scope, I am very worried about how he will cope with a serious operation. :(

Now I hope I don't jinx Danny ............ but, drum roll, no vomits or regurgitations for nearly 9 hours. Obviously most of that was spent lying in bed, but I generally get up to a couple or more vomits and the consequent loads of washing.

He had his last little snack at 11.15pm last night and has had his morning Ranitidine and a small bowl of Hills Diet slurry at 8am.

:crossfingers: :crossfingers: :crossfingers:

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Yonjuro and LG, I can tell you I am pretty damned chuffed. From a horror day yesterday to quite a turn around.

He is eating his Hills Diet mush ( :D ) really well, and I have just given him his other medication in some Lactose Free Yoghurt which he lapped up like a starving boy :thumbsup: :thumbsup: .

I am far from impressed with SASH at this stage though.

When he was discharged on Wednesday, his vet was too busy to see me. It took ages for someone to find/print out his discharge papers for me. Then his medications weren't available. Few other problems with his discharge, but I won't go into details.

When he was so sick yesterday, I phoned to find that his treating vet was away until Tuesday, but I eventually spoke to another vet who was very helpful.

The medications have to be compounded, although they did give me bottle of one which I thought was something always on hand. I thought only the other one had to be compounded.

So the receptionist eventually came out with them: one has been made up in tablet form which I specifically said to the vet he wouldn't take and it would have to be liquid. The one I already had had been repeated. I asked if the tablet could be broken open and given to him in food and was told that would be okay. So because I'd already waited two days for that decided to keep it like that.

The receptionist then said, I'll just prepared the account.

Wait for it: $400.00!!! I nearly died. Now I am prepared to spend anything, do anything if the outcome is good for Danny, but you'd think I could have been warned.

So, I am not impressed at the moment.

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Yeah, $400 plus bad service is a bitter pill to swallow - pun not really intended. But apart from that, I am so pleased to hear that Danny is happily eating and that is brilliant news! :thumbsup:

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I had a few bad moments this morning when he took ages to eat his food with his meds in it and his demeanour was pretty down. And then he threw up a little. Undaunted ( :D ) I scraped it up, mixed in some honey and gave it to him via syringe.

Since then he has had a two more little meals, the last one just the i/d without being made into a slurry, just little pieces. He loved it. He is obviously hungry and was even sniffing around the waste bin when the undersink cupboard door was open :laugh: , but I am resisting feeding him too much at any one time.

So, I think we are in the best shape possible at this stage. Two and a half days before he goes back to SASH, so hopefully by then, he will be ready and able to cope with the next stage, a Fluroscopy. Luckily that doesn't require an anaesthetic.

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I had a few bad moments this morning when he took ages to eat his food with his meds in it and his demeanour was pretty down. And then he threw up a little. Undaunted ( :D ) I scraped it up, mixed in some honey and gave it to him via syringe.

Since then he has had a two more little meals, the last one just the i/d without being made into a slurry, just little pieces. He loved it. He is obviously hungry and was even sniffing around the waste bin when the undersink cupboard door was open :laugh: , but I am resisting feeding him too much at any one time.

So, I think we are in the best shape possible at this stage. Two and a half days before he goes back to SASH, so hopefully by then, he will be ready and able to cope with the next stage, a Fluroscopy. Luckily that doesn't require an anaesthetic.

Hope this progress is ongoing, DDD.

Good to get encouraging news.

:D

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