07/15/2019
*POST EDIT* We would like to thank Mr T’s owners very much for allowing us to share this on social media, to help raise awareness and educate on the importance of vaccinations.
Parvo - Day 1 in isolation.
Meet Mr.T.. He came into the vet clinic after 3 days of not eating and a morning made up of vomiting. He was happy enough to the vets and nurses and although he was wagging his tail, there was this faint distinct smell of metallic yuk. Has Mr T been vaccinated? No they hadn’t got around to it. Out with the parvovirus test and the anxious 10 minute wait for a result. Yep, you guessed it, positive for parvovirus infection.
Isolation for you Mr. T. He was rushed into the isolation area where the staff worked quickly to attach him to an intravenous fluid therapy pump and to get him comfortable. Antibiotics, a few reassuring pats and an anti-vomiting injection. Mr. T was booked in for the all too familiar fight for life against this deadly virus.
After a comfortable night in isolation, this morning Mr. T let everything go. This poor, poor boy was covered, and I mean covered, in his own diarrhea and vomit. As a putrid smell started to work it’s way out into the vet clinic, I started scrubbing the area, an all too familiar job for vet nurses and always looking back at Mr. T, to tell him it was okay.
Gone was the wagging tail and happiness. Now his head hung low, his eyes half closed, laying on his bedding not moving, he was clearly suffering in the grips of this terrible disease. Just when you think you have cleaned up the mess, Mr. T starts squirting uncontrollable diarrhoea over the floor and wall. A reassuring pat and the clean up starts again.
This is parvo. Unfiltered, uncensored and undeniably devastating.
