Parvo is an awful disease. The virus hits the bone marrow so that the immune system is incapacitated. Then it travels to the digestive tract and destroys the intestinal lining. This is where infection can set in, in addition to the virus. Charlie can\u2019t keep anything down \u2013 he throws up even from drinking water. He hasn\u2019t eaten in five days. <\/p>\n
I give him a shot of antibiotics once a day to fight infection, a shot of some kind of painkiller to keep him somewhat comfortable, and put him on an IV drip bag for hydration to survive. Charlie dreads the needles but doesn\u2019t fight it, and MC and I have fine-tuned our system and we make it work. <\/p>\n
Charlie spent some time outside over the weekend but rests on the bed 100% of the time now. He still rolls on his side for a belly rub between naps. There\u2019s not much else to report right now \u2013 it\u2019s a waiting game and there\u2019s no way of knowing how long this will last and other stuff I just can\u2019t bring myself to type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Parvo is an awful disease. The virus hits the bone marrow so that the immune system is incapacitated. Then it travels to the digestive tract and destroys the intestinal lining. This is where infection can set in, in addition to the virus. Charlie can\u2019t keep anything down \u2013 he throws up even from drinking water. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5554,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}