Oh Carolyn. My heart goes out to you and your family. Two of our girls have had c-sections this year because of the size of the litters and I didn't have post c-section blood work done either. All seems fine with them, but if we have another c-section in the future, we will be requesting that the blood works needs to be done after the c-section. It was a generous thing for you to do to share your experiences with us. Hopefully Snow WHite will be a little girl for you to keep and cherish. Myra Savant
>From: Floyd & Carolyn Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel List ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [CKCS-L] Death after c-section >Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 08:20:10 -0500 > >Hello To All, >I usually find myself lurking on the list but I felt I needed to share the >passing of our Susie. I hope my experience might help someone else. Our >Susie died about 3 weeks after she had a c-section. She gave us 8 >wonderful, healthy puppies and everything seemed to be going fine. She was >on antibiotics for 5 days after the surgery. She was eating well and the >puppies were doing fine. On Saturday before she died the following Friday >I took her back to the vet to have her stitches taken our. I discussed >with her a smell that Susie had and a discharge she had. She put her on >antibiotics just in case there was still a problem. On the following >Thursday night I did not like the way she was breathing so I decided I >needed to take her to have her checked. The vet was not alarmed that >anything was serious. She did blood work and found out that her white >blood cell count was high. She couldn't understand this because she was on >antibiotics and was about finished with them. She said she would recommend >that we leave her for the night and return in the morning for her. They >would watch her breathing and get her started on some new antibiotics that >were stronger. We agreed and went home to feed the babies. > > Early the next morning we were called to let us know that Susie had >passed away. Shocked is not a strong enough word to describe our feelings. > Never did we expect to get that news. The vet had tried to call us >several times during the night but kept getting a busy signal. The >autopsy showed that she died from a bacterial infection. My regular vet >did not do the surgery. It was done in the middle of the night at an >emergency clinic. My vet felt they would do a good job and told me to use >the clinic as she had been out of town. From this experience I have >learned that it is necessary to do post c-section blood work to make sure >there is no infection from the surgery. I feel if I had we would have >caught the problem in time. Susie did not appear to be sick. She was >nursing the babies, eating good and seemed very happy. In fact an hour >before she died they were taking her for a walk to go to the bathroom. > > It is with a very sad heart that I share my experience. I hope by >sharing it may save someone from going through the heart break of losing a >very special friend. Susie was very healthy and had never been sick. She >was heart clear before breeding and the autopsy showed no problems with any >of her organs except her lungs. The infection had spread through her body >and she only had 10% use of her lungs. > >Susie left us with 7 little boys and 1 little girl. We called them our >Snow White and Seven Dwarfs' litter. At the time we had not idea how true >the name would become. We also have her daughter who is so much like her >and one of her granddaughters. Her true Cavalier spirit will always be >with us. Thanks for letting me share our grief in the hope that it will >help someone. > >Carolyn Adams > >LEWISWOOD CAVALIERS >2929 Lewiswood Lane >Tallahassee, Florida 32311-1800 >(850) 421-8552 > > >========================================================"Magic Commands": >to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL >to start it up gain click here: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. >Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > >All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
