Very sick 2 year old bully.. Long.. heartbreaking story..

[OscartheBully]

hello.
I have a two year old ol' english Bulldog, and 6 weeks ago he started walking quite funny.. I left it, shortly after noticing this, not even 4 hours later he would walk and scream. I took him to the emergency vet (since it was about midnight when i actually got to touch him, he would just hide and be alone), they said it was something to do with his hips, they gave us medication and said we should take him to are normal vet in a few days for a follow up.. That night after the hospital, Oscar didn't sleep. He tried to walk around the house, he'd sit down.. stand up.. sit down stand up.. So the next morning I took him to our Vet, The vet had to put him under JUST to touch his back leg. They did about 5 x-rays and it came back as a torn legitimate. We were giving medication and sent on our way. FIVE days later, My husband asked me if I've seen oscar eat today because he was bring up yellow and black liquid, I said NO, and he informed me that Oscar didn't eat the following day either. so that night i went out and bought some wet food for him and he ate a bit of that. The following day , he was again vomiting up just yellow and black liquids. I rushed him back to the vet.. He had a fever double of what it should of been. Blood was taken, NOW he has a blood infection. Given more medication and once again sent on our way.
It's been 6 weeks since we first found out about the "torn legitimates", last week Oscar wasn't eating AGAIN, and again he was very very warm.. We rushed him BACK to the vet his fever is now almost triple and the vet is surprised he isn't going into convolutions. The vet informed us that this is more than what we normally thought it was, He did a very very intense blood test (Pushing the needle up the vein for different stages of blood), and told us it might be ONE of THREE things..
1) Lyme Disease
2) His internal organs might be eating away at themselves
3) Systems Disease.
After being explained what each is, and how its caused, I was so mad, my husband walked me to the car where I cried while he went back into the vet to get Oscar.
Oscar has NEVER been bitten by a tick, NOR has he ever had fleas. We also have a cat, He is an indoor cat and only ONCE in his life has he been outside and that was April of this year he ran away from home, when he found him he had no fleas or anything. I'm SO mad that the vet said that he can only be sick with those 3 things, he is on the best tick and flea medication there is.  I just don't understand.
I did phone our breeder who has BOTH Oscar's Mom, dad and BOTH sets of grandparents, She is at a lose of words, The only issues she's had with the litter Oscar came from is a little boy at 4 months ate a twig, and had to the it removed from his little belly.
I'm also going to be taking him see the vet she takes all her bullys too.

The question for everyone is.. Has anyone heard of this? starting out as a torn leg. than turning into a blood infection.. now we have no idea.. ANY infomation would help, everything at all..

Thank you for taking the time and reading our story

Love Oscar, Mom and Dad

[kitty51]

hope you get the answers for your little man,as we dont have many animal related diseases here,no lyme disease no rabies so hang in there,sometimes it gets worse before it gets better,by the way he has a beautiful face,so cute i could kiss him!!:)

[Dakotawinks]

Glad to hear he feels better. My dog had something like this too. It was horrible as she could not walk up the stairs w/out crying and walked funny. They gave her  steroids for it in the first place which caused her to spit up yellow/black fluid. Come to find out that was caused by steroids, they made her have a stomach ulcer which causes blood from the stomach which is why she was spitting that up. She also took anti inflammatory pills which after about a month (maybe longer) helped her too. I still am not sure what it is. I'm thinking she hit her hip on the doggie door in such a way to bruise it or hurt it and it just took awhile to get over it. The pain was intense for her and she too would walk around the house and not lay down. i think it hurt her to lay down too.
Anyway, I'm glad your baby is better.

[suzi-q]

Best of luck!  I am wishing good thoughts for Oscar!  Let us know!

[ne55]

thats great news :)  I am so happy for you and Oscar!
keep us posted on the results on his bloodtest!

cheers:-)
ne55

[OscartheBully]

Thanks for the post.

Ne55- He was on anti inflammatory's.. but this isn't the first time he has been on them.  yedsterday he had a wonderful day, He was playing with my husband in the back yard, and running around for the ball.. so this morning we were worried about waking him up because he was active yesterday we thought maybe he'd hurt today, but  he seems to be doing wonderful.
(I am also doing wonderful, as i took the day off work to wait for the phone call of the blood test)

[ne55]

sorry! to hear about your baby :(   It does sound strange that he has all these other problems!
what medication was prescribed?
was it an anti inflammatory?
rimadyl and other nsaids  can cause severe side effects in some dogs!
My dog was on them for about 2wks aft ligament surgery and I was advised about the side effects and risks and what symptoms to look out for and if so to stop medication immediatly and contact them!
Its good to hear that your getting a second opinion from another vet .
hope your baby gets better soon, keep us posted!

ne55

[Fourpaws]

I don't have an answer for you :(  
I am sure someone here will have a suggestion. I just want to say that your dog is very cute and you sound like a great dog mom. I hope the blood work will give you more information that makes sense. Keep us posted. By the way, have you posted this in the "ask a vet" forum? You might want to try that also.