そしてレントゲンにはっきりくっきり写ったのは虚脱気管。気管が狭くなってるのです。
バレーフィーバーと関係があるかないかは別として、このつぶれたストローのように狭くなった気管がひどくなる咳の原因なのでした。
これまで飲んでいた非ステロイド系坑炎症剤をやめて、1週間後に副腎皮質ステロイドを始めましょう、と言われて帰ってきました。(非ステロイドと副腎皮質ステロイドを混ぜるとお腹に良くないらしい）
ところが、家に帰ってきてから今度はユキ、首が痛いみたいでヒーヒーしちゃって、右に頭を向けられないのでずっと左回りで、夜もあまり寝られず、朝はドッグフードに見向きもせず、普段なら喜んで直上ジャンプになるホットドッグにも見向きもせず。
急遽獣医さんに電話して、午後の予約を入れてもらいました。
急いで仕事に行って、半休とってお昼にあがって、二日連続獣医さん。
でもなんか朝のうちに首が痛いのは直っちゃったみたい(笑）
なんか、多分、レントゲン撮ってる時に首ひねっちゃったのかな。
ちょうど、日曜に撮ったレントゲンの検査報告が放射線科医から戻ってきて、それもぎっしり１ページ強に渡る結果報告で、獣医さんも「いや～、電話で伝えるには長すぎるから、ちょうど予約が入ってよかったよ」だって。そりゃ獣医さんは治療費の心配しなくていいから、気軽にそう言えるわよね。
結果：
１．虚脱気管。
２．肺に水。
３．足のリンパ腺炎症。
なんかもう、なんだよね。診断結果、多すぎ。獣医さんもびっくりしてました。
そんなわけで、具合悪すぎるので1週間待たずに副腎皮質ステロイド療法決行。
副腎皮質ステロイドの効果は抜群で、翌日には咳がすっかり止まったし、元気も出てきたけど、ここ2日ほどまたユキの目から生気がなくなってて、ちょっと心配。
早く良くなってまた散歩に行ける日が来るといいんだけど。
The dog's cough had gotten worse and we took her back to the vet last Sunday. After yet another set of x-rays, we found that she has a collapsed trachea. The narrowed trachea was the culprit of causing her coughs.
Since she was on NSAID, the vet prescribed Prednisone, but told us to wait for a week (because it is apparently not good for stomach to mix NSAID and corticosteroid).
However, she started yelping after we got home, and looks like something was wrong with her neck. On Monday morning, she could not turn her head to right and circling to her left. She did not even touch the dog food. That concerned me. Even though she had been pretty badly ill for the past month, she always had appetite. I tried to give her some hot dogs, which she would usually go crazy, and she did not touch it either. That concerned me gravely. So I had to call the vet to make an appointment right away.
The earliest appointment they had was 1 pm, so I went to work, took a half day off, and came back home and took her to the vet. The good thing was, her neck had gotten better by then. So I just overreacted and wasted my half day and had to spend another vet bill.
The good thing was that the vet had gotten the radiology report back from the radiologist (the vet takes the x-rays and view them on the sport but also send the images to some certified radiologist for review as well). It was a very thick, single-spaced, overflowing to the second page report. (I read people's radiology reports daily and this report was crazy long compared to human radiology report)
The impression:
1. Collapsed trachea.
2. Fluid in lung.
3. Lymphanopathy in hind legs.
Great. Yeah. On top of Valley Fever.
So the vet told us that we are behind the game and needed to up the ante, and we decided to begin the Prednisone right away.
Pred worked its miracle. The coughing stopped almost overnight, and she was able to get up (though still having issues with the hind legs). She has become well enough that she whines now when we take the other dog for a walk and she has to stay home (she had been too frail to even whine before).
She did perk up but she has been doing not so well again for the past couple of days. We'll see.
I hope she will get better soon so that we can go for a walk again.
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