So we cancelled our vet appointment for this morning because her neck and back seem to be fine and she isn't whimpering any more, which is great.
But then a whole new problem arises...The boyfriend found her sleeping on the floor this morning, which was really odd because Penny is a usually a little cockroach and squeezes herself into the tiniest spaces in between me and the boyfriend. After picking her up to give her some lovin', I noticed a bite on her back leg that was red and swollen. I asked the boyfriend to keep an eye on her to make sure the bite wasn't from a poisonous insect. Well, he dropped me off at work and then went to the gym. He arrived home around 1pm to find Penny Lane swollen and splotchy all over her body. I got a frantic call to meet them at the vet so I ran over there and I saw a puppy that had an allergic reaction.
Her little eyes were almost swollen shut and she had pink whelps all over her little bitty body. I was on the verge of tears. The vet was wonderful with her and gave her a shot of cortisone and recommended we give her the prescribed medicine he handed us and a benedryl at night time. The vet assistant kept saying, "It looks like she got in a fight with Mike Tyson!"
Here are some pictures of her after the shot (she instantly looked 10x better)!
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