Finally we’ve got some good news to post. Kathleen asked me to let everyone know that they’ve managed to find a blood donor for Nollaig. In Kathleen’s own words:
“They have found 2 units of blood to match Nollaig and they only need 1 but both are being sent up from Petblood bank UK.Vet decided instead of buying in lots of bags and having them sent up and then checked for crossmatching that he would ask bloodbank that if he sent down sample of Nollaig’s blood would they test her blood against all the blood there which to be honest makes more sense in a situation like Nollaig’s where a match is harder to find.
Blood will arrive tomorrow lunchtime so as long as Nollaig ok they will transfuse her tomorrow.
She has been hosp 10 days now and has come back from the brink as a life threatening infection set in due to her white cells going too low with that last drug that they tried on her.Her white cells back to normal now but at one point they were 0.9 instead of over 3 and she had to be put into an isolation ward and on iv antibiotics due to the high risk of catching further infection and full blown septicaemia setting in.What a brave little fighter she is!
However since last Thursday her pack red cell volume has been 9.9 and it should be between 35 and 55 so she was running out of oxygen in her body.She had to have 2 bags of oxyglobin to keep her going until they found a match that oxygenates the body for a day or two but doesn’t last like red cells.
We had the police dogs ready tomorrow for blood to be taken and then Susan I would have been calling on you for help to get dogs brought in from the park dogs trust etc etc…
I just wanted to thank you soooooooo much for getting the word out there about Nollaig in fact Rory Nollaig’s vet just asked me if I knew about a dogsey forum as someone in the vet hosp must have seen your plea for Nollaig and let Rory know that there were people on there willing to help.Thank you so much.
Now we need to hope and pray that this final treatment will be the one that works it did for another dog same condition as Nollaig who had tried all drugs same as Nollaig and then this turned it around.
Also could you please post a message on your site and the dogsey forum and pass on my immense thanks to the people who sent messages of goodwill for Nollaig and those who offered to donate. Although if we could get more dogs to donate we could perhaps get our own Scottish canine blood bank set up.
I will let you know how things go.
Lets all send positive vibes to Nollaig and hope and pray that this treatment works!