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| In Memory of P'Nut We are praying for your recover, sweet little girl. Stay strong. Love, Jeri, Tom, Pepper and Izzie |
| Kristen Michels |
| Benny & Barney |
| Murphy at Lake Ozark |
| Jennifer Thatcher |
| Michael Bruton |
| Kia sweet girl hurry and get better, we are praying for your speedy recovery. Gloria, Bristol, Guinness, Kansas and Kenyon |
| Laura Flanagan |
| Wally Fallon |
| We're pulling for you! Get well!!! Karen and "Rudee" |
| Karen Pearlstein |
| Wishes of a speedy recover to Kia! Kerri Ryan |
| Feel better Kia From Shane, Kristin and your brother Hunter! |
| Ann, Dan, Phoebe & Desi |
| In loving memory of our dearly missed Sadie Girl Kim and Craig |
| Cynthia Peterson |
| Pamela Fairley |
| Nancy Novotny |
| Maggie and Jackie Crowe |
| Catherine McClellan |
| In Memory of Keeleigh & Mulligan Lorraine White |
| Christine Gier |
| In Memory of our beloved Samson and our current furkid "Amazing Grace". Stay strong little Kia there are many Angels with and without tails praying for your complete and speedy recovery! |
| Marilyn Montell |
| Please get better soon sweet Kia! Suzanne, Rooney & Tara McKay |
| Karen Harris |
| Veda Drummond |
| Murphy and Riley say get better real fast John Reutz |
| Rosemary Nichols |
| Amy Parman |
| Rita C Orozco |
| In Memory of our sweet Mischief. We miss you. Ann Kaplan |
| Maui and Clifford send you lots of kisses and want you to get better soon. |
| Sean Redding |
| With wheatie hugs from Wickett and Devlin "who loves his adopted home)... get better Kia - we are pulling for you. |
| My prayers are with you Kia! I hope she gets better! Jodi Springer |
| Kia... Glad to hear you are getting better! Emmie and CoCo |
| Beverly and Stephen Schneider and Maggie |
| Thanks to all who helped with Tilly's safe return. Christy Tulipana |
| KIA Kia is a purebred female Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. Her DOB is 8-5-06 She is one of a litter of 5 that came in with upper respiratory infections. You can read their full stories and see pics by clicking HERE. January Update Kia is very ill - while the other puppies have gotten over the infection, Kia's has progressed into pneumonia. She is now with the vet getting treated. Please send your good thoughts and wishes her way. Jan 12 Kia is home after 5 days in the hospital and doing much better. She will be on antibiotics for the next 2 weeks and then will go in for another x-ray to see how her lungs are. Feb. 10, 2007 Kia is still fighting the pneumonia. She has been through weeks of trying different antibiotics without any real success. She is not getting any worse but also not getting better. Next Tuesday, Feb. 13th, she will be going in to have a procedure called a "tracheal wash" which will allow them to get samples of the infection in her lungs that will then be cultured to determine exactly what it is causing the pneumonia and what antibiotic or other treatment will be successful in battling the condition. Feb. 15, 2007 Kia came through the tracheal wash with no problem and seemed to be fine but early this morning she began vomiting violently and was having a hard time breathing. She was at the vet's office when they opened. They have her on oxygen and a nebulizer and say she can come home but to me she was not doing well at all so she is staying at the vet for the night. Feb. 16, 2007 AM Update Unfortunately I don't have good news. As I said yesterday, I thought she was sicker than what the vets thought. I am very glad I went with my gut feeling when they said she could come home and I said I would rather leave her there overnight. First thing this morning I got a call saying she was having more trouble breathing and violently throwing up again. They did a full blood panel and could not find anything wrong in it. They then did a set of full body x-rays and her heart, kidneys, liver, etc. all look normal. Her lungs are a different story. They look much worse than they did just last Friday when they x-rayed them. They are a bit stumped on the violent throwing up as they say that is not a symptom of pneumonia but they cannot find any other reason for her to be doing this unless she has some sort of obstruction. We are still waiting the results from the tracheal wash to find out what antibiotic might work but at this point they are saying her prognosis is "poor". They have her on IVs for fluids, antibiotics and anti-nausea drugs to try and stop the throwing up. I have, of course, told them to do anything and everything they can for her regardless of the cost. PM Update They have put Kia on a new antibiotic called Cephtazidime which they hope will help. She also coughed up a large mass tonight which they looking at and said was a mass of white blood cells from her body fighting the infection. They are continuing the nebulizer treatments as well. Feb. 17, 2007 Better news to report today! When I called this morning to check on Kia I was told she was back up on her feet, alert, tail wagging and had attacked her breakfast and ate it all. These are all very good signs. I went over to visit her this afternoon and she wagged her tail and gave me kisses, she was very happy when I took her out of the cage but not so happy when I put her back - I think she thought I was taking her home. She has lost more weight and is painfully thin but hopefully the new antibiotic will continue to work. Today they are saying they are "very encouraged" by the progress she has made. Unless she gets worse and they call me tomorrow there won't be anymore updates until Monday. Please continue to keep her in your thoughts. Special thanks to those of you who have jumped in to become Angels for Kia - it is very much appreciated. February 20, 2007 Kia continues to make small improvements but is still in the hospital. She decided she had had enough of the IV's today and proceeded to chew through them and pull them out. I guess we should take it as a good sign that she was feeling well enough to chew on things. The results came back from the test she had last week and either something was wrong with the sample or in the lab but there were no results. Today I went over and saw her and had the vet take some swabs of her throat which I took over to Topaz who is taking it to her lab to do some further testing. The vet felt her chest sounded better today but we won't until we do another x-ray later this week and see what it tells us. She continues to get the nebulizer treatments and they are going to go with injectable antibiotics and see how she does without the IVs as she is eating and drinking ok now. February 23, 2007 Kia came home tonight. She is feeling better and breathing much easier. We have gotten some results from her lab tests but are waiting for the sensitivity tests to be completed. For now she has been put on chloramphenicol to see if that will finish killing off the pneumonia. She is still horribly thin so we will be working on fattening her up as well Please continue sending your good thoughts her way! Feb. 28 Update Kia seems to be getting better, her coughs are few and far between and are sounding less congested but we won't know for sure until another x-ray is done. She is eating and drinking well and on a short trip outside today was interested in playing with her toys again. We got the lab tests back from the 2nd lab and finally got some helpful results, we are hoping the antibiotic she is on now will continue to work as our only other option if it does not is Baytril and Baytril is not recommended for dogs under 1 year old as it can do some damage to their bones. But if we have to use it we will to save her life. We got the bill for her last hospital stay today - just a little under $1400. We are well over $2000 in medical bills for Kia so far with more to come so her Angels are very much appreciated - THANK YOU March 23 Update WONDERFUL NEWS TO REPORT!!! After more than a week of hearing no coughing from Kia we took her in for a follow-up x-ray to see where we were in her treatment. The x-rays showed that Kia's lungs are 95% free of any sign of the pneumonia and the vet did not feel that any further treatment was necessary - her body will finish off clearing out the remaining material in her lungs! After months of fighting Kia has finally turned the corner in her fight for life. This puppy certainly has a strong will to live! After her last long hospital stay Kia's coat was impossibly matted and we had to make the decision to cut off all that wonderful long puppy coat. It is always so sad when it is time for that first haircut! But, Kia seems to like her short cut and is so happy to be able to stay outside and play to her hearts content with the other dogs after her long weeks of having to stay quiet while being treated for the pneumonia. Kia is still too thin but is gaining weight. She will need to gain several pounds before she is healthy enough to be spayed. Barring any further health problems we are hopeful that she will be ready to move on to a forever home by the end of May or June. Thank you again for all the wonderful Angels who came forward and donated to Kia's care. Your donations are what allows us to help the dogs like Kia who come in with expensive health problems that need to be addressed. June 2007 - A FOREVER HOME Kia has been adopted by Kelly Deare of Missouri CONGRATULATIONS! |
| Elizabeth Rusnak |
