On Sunday Delilah came in to the house after her morning romp and seemed to be limping a bit. After a few days she seemed to be getting stiffer and stiffer and was not getting up on her own to eat. It looked like her back legs were giving her a lot of problems so we took her to a new vet.
While the vet was examining her, the vet technician found a red spot on Delilah's skin so they shaved the area and found out she had been bitten by a poisonous snake, probably a Copperhead, on her right shoulder. The vet also said that the hind paralysis was most likely due to a tick-borne disease. They kept her overnight to give her IV fluids and sent her blood to a lab for tests. They started her on antibiotics and pain medication.
The next day we were able to go pick her up and she seemed a little peppier. Since then we have been giving her the antibiotics and pain meds and a Pepcid twice a day and she seems to have most of her old energy back and is not having any problems getting up or down or walking.
Now the only problem is that we have to keep her locked up and out of trouble for another week and a half. Anyone who has met Delilah will tell you that that is nearly impossible. Now every time she wants to go outside we get the leash and walk around, which doesn't exactly make her happy, but she will get over it.
I am just glad that she is OK and getting back to her old self. She was pretty pitiful those first few days.
We still don't know if she has/had a tick-borne disease because the vet said the tests showed she had a little bit of all three and nothing was definitive. So we're just giving her the drugs and taking her back for a check up on Tuesday.
My baby is OK!
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