I have been reading up on what Dilbert had after his car accident, pneumothorax. And what our vets did was wrong! He sould have never been moved around and he should have been in a oxygen cage right away! When we brought him in the vet examined him was pushing in on his abdomine and he started wheezing, then she was like himm I'm not sure why he is doing that. Well maybe cuz he was hit by a car and is having trouble breathing! Then she did it again. Then she listened to his lungs and she was like well he seems fine you can take him home and just watch his breathing. She said that she would like to take x rays but from the sounds of his lungs he is fine.Then I asked for the xrays to be on the safe side. So they take him back for the x rays. One of the tech comes back and said that when he was on his back he had trouble breathing. From what I have read, doing the xrays and having the dog on their back can mean life or death for the animal. The best thing for them is to put them in the oxygen cage right away and monitor their breathing. We didn't know this, and we trusted what they vet was doing. The xrays were fuzzy and she couldn't really tell if there was damage but his heart was lifted from the rib cage and it looks like there could be air in his chest. But she said to take him home and monitor his breathing. BUt he'll be fine. Never told us to keep him confined and don't let him move at all. We kept him in his cage let him eat but we did take him out to pee ect. We took him to the emergency vet a 4am because we knew something was wrong. The vet comes in listens to his lungs says that she will take x rays again! (according to what I have read, the person should be able to tell that there is something wrong in the lungs by listening to the lungs alone, no xrays as this is not good for the dog) And she says she may need to tap and put him on oxygen. She said that he is fine, he has pulmonary contusions, never mentioned anything about the air in his cheast.Althoug
h she has less than five years experience. To come pick him up at 8am and take him to our vet for the day. In case a tap needs to be done and if he needs to be on Oxygen. He should have never left the emergency! So we take him to our vet and at about 2pm the other vet that is there calls, they took more xrays and he has pneomothorax, more than 50 air is in his chest and he is having trouble breathing. They are going to do a chest tap. But he is going to be fine. 80% chance that he will be ok. I call at 3pm to see how he is doing, they are just doing the chest tap now!!! And the vet will call us. She calls us about 20 min later and he is breathing much better but we need to take him to the emergnecy vet for the weekend in case they need to do another tap. So we pick him up at 6pm and he looks happy to see us he wasn't put on Oxygen and she shows us the xrays they took. It was bad, he barley had room to breath, I ask is it a sign that it is a small holesince it took 24 hrs to happen. She said no it happend pretty fast, but he'll be just fine. So we take him back the the emergency and they take him right in the vet tech listens to his lungs right away and she said that he it doesn't sound good in there and the vet comes in looks with the xrays from our vet and says this in not good. This type of thing needs to be treated agressively(sp) right away, he needs to no be moved and on oxygen. He needed this from the start.She listens to his lungs and says that it is touch and go. His lungs are badly damaged, they are going to put him on oxygen and pain meds. The tech comes back in, I am bawling at this point and we ask how can this be? The other vet just said that he would be fine. She said that his condition is serious but his gums are pink which shows that there is oxygen circulating. He is in intensive care, so someone is watching him at all times. And we will do all that we can. We get home and Tim looks up this vet and sees that she has 20+ yrs experiance, and she is the only one that was truthful with us on his condition. I only wish that we had seen her from the beginning, maybe things would be different. At 8:00 the vet calls and Tim comes to see me crying, Dilbert is not well and they don't know if he will make it. We get there and well I don't want to go into the details but they did 2 chest taps in 2 hrs and the air was just filling back into his chest. The vet was crying saying that his lungs are just to damaged and anything else they do will just prolong his pain. He just can't breath. The best thing to do is put him to sleep. It is the hardest thing I ever had to do, we were by his side when he passed away. I think that he held on just for us so we could all say goodbye. I know that I am venting at the vets, but how could they not know, the last vet said that he should bave been on oxygen from the beginning. I am just so mad, why didn't I know this? I know that none of this will bring him back, but it makes me so mad. I trusted these people they said that he would be ok! Thank you all for listening
So now we are changing vets and we are basically going to interview these people before we make our decision.
