Not a good night

I got home from work early, and was spending time with Alexis when I noticed that she was very shaky and unsteady on her feet. I called the vet and they asked me to bring her in right away for another blood transfusion.

Ten minutes later we were there, and they took us straight to the back. I was actually allowed to help Dr Marlow and Brooke set a catheter in Lex's leg (I was a vet's assistant in high school so I have a little experience with holding dogs for procedures). Then they hung the bottle of blood and attached it to the catheter. They put Alexis in a cage and told me to come back in two hours. I went up front and just couldn't leave ... I chatted with the receptionist for a while and then I heard a bunch of noise in the back. Apparently Lex had managed to pull out her catheter and spray blood everywhere.

I called back to Brooke, "Do you want me to come back there or stay out?" and she replied, "Can you stand the sight of blood? She sprayed it everywhere." I told her it was no problem and went back there with my girl. I sat next to her and petted her while the rest of her transfusion finished up.

I took her home, with new medication instructions (double everything) and now we start the waiting. Waiting for results, waiting for her body to respond to the medication, waiting for her immune system to stop fighting her own blood.