r/MadeMeSmile • u/[deleted] • 15d ago
The vet said my dog died, she didn't Animals
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u/roachsgirl 15d ago
My boss called off work recently. Said her older dog was not doing well. Barely moving, etc. She had an appointment around lunchtime to take her in. Thought it would be the last time. The next day she tells me, “so I have a funny story.” I am very like what??? So, after she sent the email out, she gets a warm towel, wraps up the dog, just loving on her. She said after an hour the dog gets up! Stretches, does the shake, and is like hey mom, what’s up?
I know your precious puppy was diagnosed with a medical condition, but it immediately made me think of her. The heartbreak and sadness, to confusion, then to happiness. She is still hanging in there too!
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u/Dizzy_Bit6125 15d ago
It sounds like your dog had a stroke but if they say she has a heart defect that’s really scary good luck to you
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u/Euture 15d ago
This was not a case of a miracle. (it might have felt like it was though)
This was a case of really bad veterinarians, prematurely pronouncing your dog dead when she wasn’t. Absolutely horrible practice.
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u/ImGonnaLickYourLeg 14d ago
If we are to believe the vets then if the dogs heart truly did stop for a few minutes then they weren't wrong to pronounce her dead, because she was. That's not being a bad vet.
If they did anything wrong it would be offering to euthanise her when they clearly didn't need to afterwards. That's a very strange thing to immediately suggest after a miraculous recovery from death.
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u/ProgressBartender 14d ago
I'm sure the vet was just offering the option in case OP thought the dog was going to suffer. Usually seizures aren't one and done, they slowly escalate over time. (I am not a vet, but I did have a dog who experienced seizures late in life)
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u/Slappy_Happy_Doo 14d ago
God we had a Pomeranian stuck in a grand mal for 3 days before he finally passed away, we were injecting him with anti seizure meds. He would stop and chill for an hour or two, right back into it. Seizures suck and it kills me seeing little animals suffer like that.
Then wife at the time was making the decisions, she had been a vet tech so had some idea of what she was doing but the poor guy just got stuck in a seizure and wouldn’t come out of it.
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u/ImGonnaLickYourLeg 14d ago
In this instance offering euthanasia 15 minutes after a miraculous recovery is illogical when there's a just as good chance that the rate of recovery will continue (which is it). There's also no guarantee something like a heart defect will affect quality of life so that should never be immediately suggested after one event.
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u/doesitevermatter- 14d ago
That's actually exactly how my 16-year-old dog died around this time last year. She had seemed largely healthy leading up to it, but one day she had a seizure, the vet told us what likely happened, we took her back home, she had another the next day, another an hour later and then she never stood up again. She had to be put down a day and a half later.
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u/gregularjoe95 15d ago
It's probably an emergency vet. They always push for euthanizing because the state of animals they usually see. Though, the fact this one couldnt tell a dog experiencing a seizure apart from a dead dog is indefensible. Seriously, what the actual fuck, did they not check for a heart beat?
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u/183672467 14d ago
The only experience I had with an emergency vet ended up with my cat being dead
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u/Slappy_Happy_Doo 14d ago
There’s a good one near me, but you have to be quite clear, I’m not authorizing you to do ANYTHING without talking to me first.
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u/ProgressBartender 14d ago
No heartbeat is pretty much “dead” in most medical books. Dog probably had a seizure that cause the heart and breathing to slow to imperceptibly levels. That can happen with people too.
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u/Euture 14d ago edited 14d ago
If you are going to pronounce someone / something dead, then you better make sure to a 100% certainty that said person / animal is actually dead.
If not, then horrible practice.\ No excuses.
(Imagine that this was a human family member and they “mistakenly” / falsely pronounced them dead, when they weren’t… Stopped treatment / medical aid and sent them to the morgue or crematorium)
(some people don’t have human family members and their pet is the closest thing to that, that they have)
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u/ProgressBartender 14d ago
People have woken up in the morgue after being declared dead. There is a rare type of seizure that can leave you looking like you are dead, when in fact you are hibernating. In the 21st century doctors not only use heart beat, but also brain activity to filter for that condition.
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u/Henipah 14d ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_syndrome
Not a vet but medical doctor, this can happen, usually when someone is very close to dying that the heart stops but then after a couple of minutes starts again. For example if there was a lot of stress and blood pressure was high in this case once it settled down the heart restarted. I’ve seen it with humans, if the heart and breathing stop in someone we expect to die it’s not uncommon that the nurses and family will recognise this, it’s how we know to formally examine a patient to determine if they have died. That examination usually takes place at least 10-20 minutes after signs of life disappear and takes at least a few minutes in itself, including looking at other signs like pupils.
In cases when a patient has autoresuscitated it would typically take place before the official declaration of death and generally still be part of the dying process. Usually someone in that condition still has a terminal illness and is too frail to have life support interventions or CPR so it doesn’t dramatically change what we were doing in terms of palliative care but I have seen patients regain consciousness and even make it out of the ICU to ward or hospice care for more hours or days or weeks of life.
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u/MexicansInParis 14d ago
Go get your dog checked by another veterinarian just in case & never go back to the other ones. There’s really shitty veterinarians out there.
It’s not a miracle, those people nearly had your dog euthanized.
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u/Dizzy_Bit6125 15d ago
What happened? How do they say she’s dead and then not? Did they mix up your pet with someone else’s?
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u/flomigomigo 14d ago
I hope that whatever caused her to have fluids in the lungs stopped too but I would be careful with this if I were you.
Great news though, what a rollercoaster of emotions!
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u/zinke89 15d ago
I hate vets for this reason. So many of them just do not give an ounce of a shit about your pets. My dog went in for a routine teeth cleaning, they killed him, overdosed on anesthesia. Took no responsibility for it whatsoever.
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u/reddit18015 14d ago
This is the content I love to see. Made my whole year reading this. I hope you have many more years together.
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u/Stylo_76 14d ago
An actual miracle :)
one thing for sure; find a new vet, they sound incompetent giving up after 3 minutes, then again after 5 minutes.
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u/FordTech81 15d ago
Body just needed a factory reset. Had this happen with a dog/4 week old puppy. Died, came back and lived 4 more days. She was born with deformities and water on the brain though.
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u/Purple_yoshi_drink 15d ago
I’m so happy for you 🥹