Hey Anne and Susan! Sorry my response might be mixed up. Something was up with my email, it’s not even showing Susan’s reply till I came on here. Lots of confusion! But anyway, so do you guys know how to spot the pancreatitis before it happens? I know I had seen that one of you girls mention about it taking you to the emergency vet a few times a year. My husband and I canceled our honeymoon last summer cause baby needed to go into surgery for the exploratory since we didn’t know what was wrong (which by the way, I thought it was normal and everyone did it. Now I know and regret doing it cause I’m sure we could’ve figured out his diagnosis differently but our vets made it feel like it was life or death and only option😭) anyway we wanted to make up for our lost honeymoon this summer but now my husband can’t take time off so our only option is this month. But I’m deathly afraid of leaving baby. He would stay with my parents but honestly no one knows him like I do and if he got sick I would feel like it abandon him. He can have such good days then it all changes and goes downhill. It honestly feels like everytime we want to take a vacation is when he gets sick so we end up not going anywhere. But he’s been doing little groans everytime he lays down and idk if it’s his belly or his “back pain”. A few weeks back he had some trembling and didn’t want to jump on our bed for a whole day even with his steps. The vet said it was a back issue and he was doing crate rest but even then baby was acting normal, he wanted to do his normal activities so they always wondered wether it was a back issue or not. We even did acupuncture and they kept telling us maybe it was just a strained muscle cause he wasn’t acting painful just had a lot of heat in the center of his back and would flinch during the spine exam but he is normally really sensitive so idk if it was from not wanting to be touched or actual pain. After crate rest he was still doing good but it still worries me cause he still runs and jumps which is risky for him in case he does have a disc issue but honestly how do you tell him not to run and jump? He’s such an active boy. The issue is ive seen him hesitate a little and it’s a little hard for him to get comfortable so idk if that’s his back again flaring up? Or pancreatitis sneaking up, his ibd.. I don’t know which is why it’s so scary to take a vacation 😩
