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Sick dog
My dog, Maxie, is sick. She started limping a bit two days ago, but I didn’t think much of it because she pulls up lame for a day or two from overdoing it with the frisbee or whatever else. After all she’s 11 years old. But last night it got much worse and she got to the point that she couldn’t stand or really control her back legs, and she had some sort of seizure.
I took her to the all night animal hospital at about 11pm. They checked her out and kept her for the night. Her blood work didn’t look very good, so they gave her IV antibiotics. I picked her up this morning and went to our regular vet, and now she’s back home. She’s clumsy but is walking. She doesn’t really seem to have any discomfort, just sort of a partial paralysis of her rear legs.
It’s an infection of some sort, and she’s on heavy antibiotics for now. Hopefully it will clear up quickly and she won’t have any permanent damage — but that’s not at all clear yet.
