Ill Whippet

[anslinmcg]

Get better soon Ellie :luck:

 

[dessie]

Poor Ellie, I hope she continues to improve. This sounds similar to my dear departed Dessie Whippet, although she never actually fell and couldn't get up, but she had a very fast heart & respiratory rate, for what seemed no apparent medical reason, and was weak on her left side. My Vet came to the conclusion it was neurological but as I didn't actually have a PM carried out in the end, I suppose we will never know.

 

[pamalkie]

:luck: :luck: :luck: Hope Ellie has a fast and full recovery :luck: :luck: :luck:

 

[Rachel]

Yesterday on her walk Ellie colapsed, she seemed to be paralysed, and could not move. She has been in the vets overnight on a drip, and I have seen her this morning, the vet thinks she has neurological damage poss to her spinal cord. Has anyone had any experience of this, if so advice needed.

She has managed to sit up this morning, and can stand breifly before her back legs go, but she has no relex responses in her back legs and tail.

Sarah

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Hi, two experiences : although not so dramatic, my chinese crested became partially numb in her back end, which caused her to fall over her own legs. She also had a raised white blood count. An ordinary x-ray showed that she had probably slipped a disk which had bruised her spinal cord - she was simply given a course of rimadyl and put on COMPLETE cage rest for six weeks to allow the swelling on the cord to go down - she made a full recovery with no after effects. We suspect that she did it some days earlier to the numbness when she fell off the bed in the night!

I also have a whippet who was totally paralysed in the back end (no reflexes, limp tail, no pain response) two years ago as a result of a nasty fall (which again had slipped the disk into the spinal cord and damaged it) whilst chasing squirrels, and against the odds has learned to walk and run again.

From both experiences I have learned that nerve damage takes a long, slow time to heal, but I would have thought that if Ellie is trying to stand already, the damage is not too severe - Foggy, our whippet, took literally months to even begin to move his back end, let alone stand.

We were referred to the Animal Health Trust at Newmarket where they seem to have a specialism in paralysed dogs - the consultant said that often people gave up on their dogs when they were paralysed because the situation seemed so bleak, and usually the dogs were incontinent as a result of the nerve damage, but they had discovered that if they gave these dogs time, a reasonable and sometimes full recovery was possible, and the incontinence could right itself.

I am so sorry for you and poor Ellie because I know how horrible it is, but don't give up hope - if it is anything like my experience with Foggy, it does sound like she will recover.

I hope this helps... Rachel