It's more than "just a dog"

Awww my baby is so cute. And so sick. He's been having tummy troubles all week so I called the vet's office on Thursday to get an appointment. "Oh with diarrhea you just have to let it run it's course", the receptionist told me. Despite my better judgment I said okay and hung up without an appointment.

Saturday comes. He seems to be doing a bit worse, but still nothing horrible. At that point his tummy had been messed up for a week already so I thought well I'll wait until Monday and if he's still not feeling any better, I'll take him to the doctor.

Saturday evening comes and I notice blood in his stool. Now I panic. I start researching different things it can be and it all comes back to one thing.....parvo. Now I really panic. He starts throwing up and not eating, or drinking, or doing anything but lay around and cry. It hurts me to see him in such pain but I force myself to wait until Sunday before calling in the vet on his weekend.

This morning I awoke to a horrible noise. It was Radar, crying loud almost as screaming "Don't you love me?!?!?! Why are you letting me hurt like this?!?!?!", I immediately call the doctor and he agrees to meet me up at the clinic at 1:15 to check Radar out.

"Oh it can't be parvo" he said without hesitation. "He has all his shots and he's almost two but then again, he does have all the signs". He gave us pills with strict instructions to make sure he takes them, keep plenty of water in him, and no food oh and a shot. Then off we go with a very sick puppy, meds, and without a parvo test and without the 162 bucks we came with. Still no answers, still alot of pain.

I was able to get the pills down him however he just threw them back up 20 minutes later. He still won't eat or drink and he still lays at my feet crying with a painful look in his eyes.

I've failed him. He trusts me to make everything better and as much as I tried today, I don't think I made any progress. I think I'm going to take him to get a second opinion tomorrow. I really need to force them to give a parvo test. I have to because he's not just a dog, he's my baby.