Poor, Poor Dixie

Can this dog’s week get any worse? We received a call today from the vet, who let us know that they ran a urinalysis on the urine removed from Dixie’s bladder at the time of her surgery. The urine showed an E.coli infection that is resistant to Baytril, the antibiotic she’s been taking since after surgery. And when we got home, her incision was oozing badly. So, yes, you guessed it-we have been to the vet tonight. I’m pretty sure 5 visits since last Wednesday is excessive. Anyway, the incision is oozing due to infection. When they open the bladder, some urine spills into the body, and since the infection is immune to the antibiotic she has been on, it has spread. She is okay though. She had a shot of the new antibiotic and started the new antibiotic tonight. It makes sense why she has felt so crummy now. We go back to the vet Thursday. We should see a big improvement by then.

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