... apparently I am still stable (whatever that means) so Mom is cautiously optimistic ...

... time to have a lovely sleep ...

Hi everybody. 

Teresa here.

Auntie Sandrine arrived from Lyon to see Eurydice last Thursday and is staying until tomorrow evening.

She has been very tired lately but still gave Sandrine an enthusiastic welcome albeit very short bursts of energy and then would lie down which she never does.

Normally, if she wants to rest, she stands up and stays put until she recovers. 

During the weekend she was particularly tired and spent the days lying down for the most part. 

Also, her belly was very swollen and Sandrine (having had 10 Danes in the past 27 years and having gone through 6 cases of bloat) was worried that could be happening to her.

I exchanged messages with the vet and she said if it was bloat the stomac would get really big, there's no mistaking it.

She also said if the breathing difficulties persisted I should increase the medicine.

Very sweetly, she added I should not be afraid of using these tools, this is what is keeping her here, she said, and we still have margin to increase the dosage. 

Also, I should give her less food more often and zero visits so she would not get excited and overdue it.

She told me a few days before, with the sweetest voice that only angels possess, that our baby girl is not eternal ... 

Fast forward to Sunday evening, I gave her an increased dose of cortisone but a couple of hours later she was still breathing with difficulty and Sandrine noticed her tang was greyish/blueish.

Lyckily Caroline was back at the hospital doing a night shift.

We rushed there and our lovely angel was really sad to see how our girl was looking, I noticed the same sad eyes and expression she had when I came to see her for a lung X-ray May 4th pre cortisone. 

She told us her belly was swollen because she was swallowing insane amounts of air whilst trying to fully breath and there is nothing we can do, hopefully she would expel that air naturally.

And the bluish tang means she's not getting enough oxygen circulating in her body.

Time to increase the dose from 2 1/2 pills of cortisone a day to 3 1/2 a day. 

We came back home and she went to bed but was restless and out of breath most of the night. 

At 4:30am I sent Caroline a video of her breathing and called her and she was worried and really really sad.

She told me to give her 1 pill of cortisone with a little food, we had nothing to loose at that point.

We spoke again at 6am, Eurydice had been alternating episodes of terribly laboured breathing and lying down in all different positions trying to breath better and periods where she would sleep for a little bit with a more "normal" breathing pattern. 

She went out for pee and drinking gallons of water several times during the night but I knew that was expected.

Following our call Caroline's instructions are to give her 2 pills of cortisone and 2 pills of diuretics this morning to try and dry the liquid in her lungs. 

For the ones of you reading this and going through the same experience let it be said there is no point in taking out the liquid because, apart from being a painful procedure, does nothing at all for our babies as new liquid forms constantly and rapidly. 

The only possibility is using diuretics to try to dry out the liquid. 

I am giving her the shock dose at 11h and will be talking to the vet during the day.

If we succeed in getting her better I suppose we'll give her 1 3/4 cortisone tonight plus 1 diuretic. 

If we don't succeed ...

I'm not sure what we'll do.

I've asked Caroline to tell me when it is time, I promised my sweet baby girl she would not suffer and I will definitely keep my word.

It will be my time to suffer but she will have had a wonderful life and a peaceful transition. 

Joulia (the lovely lady who did her booties) is planning to come from England to see her  June 16th I just hope she will still be here. 

Not good news at all but I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed she will still be able to pull through a little longer. 

Time for the tripawds family to gather their pawsitive thoughts and prayers too.

I know you will.

And we never needed your thoughts and prayers as much as now.

I will be updating as things evolve, touch wood touch wood touch wood touch wood I will have better news later. 

Head spinning and heavy heart here but at least for now Eurydice is sleeping peacefully as I type this, belly up in the air, probably the cortisone took this long to start showing some good effect (it's 9:30am now) 

Also, she is farting a lot which is great as that air is coming out. 

Only us tripawds pawrents to cheer when our dawgs fart like crazy ... it is the sweetest smell, if you know what I mean ...

Sending you all much love from both of us 💕🐮💕