Concerned about Chloe's hacking I first called the women I rescued her from and then called the vet at 8am and was able to get a 10am apt. I had to get Mom up and she went without breakfast so we could get to the vet on time. (the vet is and hour and a half away) we left the house at ten of nine but amazingly made it there by ten. It was a crappy day (there were snow flurries,I had to put Chloe's winter coat on her and we turned the heater on it was that cold) and a Saturday so there wasn't much traffic.
We arrived to the vet's and saw a new vet (only one there) and she was in a room with an exam table this time. Everyone was wonderfully nice, patient, and helpful. Chloe was a very good girl, though a scared one. She shook on the table a bit but otherwise did really well. Her heart rate was high, obviously, but she didn't hear any problem with that or her lungs. She had a good temperature. Her ears were cruddy with wax, which she let me look at through the scope, so she tested some of it just to be sure. Nothing was wrong with it, thankfully. She said since the hacking was intermittent it didn't signal a hairball or any kind of obstruction. She thought the problem was likely seasonal allergies and prescribed some Benadryl. They also gave me some ear cleaner and the tech showed me how to use it on one ear and watched when I did the other. Chloe was very good about it, especially considering when I did it I spilled some of it on her.
After that she was done and when I started to put her harness back on her she started to wag her tail and was so happy on the way out! She sniffed some people in the lobby and practically everyone she saw there how cute she looked in her winter coat.
We were all glad to go home. We stopped and ate, Mom bought Chloe a burger since I hadn't feed her before we left. Chloe loved that! She was so much more calmer on the way home, she had whined and was restless on the way there. She got to walk around outside the restaurant and enjoyed herself. We had to stop to get the Benadryl of which there was very little left on the shelf (tis the season) and when I got back to the car it had gotten very warm. Mom had opened Chloe's coat though she was still panting (could also be a bit of stress cause I left her to go in the store) and I took it off her when I got in. It was so warm I didn't even have to put on the t-shirt I had brought. And that's saying a lot about the temperature change with her being hairless. Crazy weather.
When I got home I called the woman from the rescue. She had called the vet and left a message for Chloe's main vet not realizing Chloe wasn't seeing her nor did the people there realize that the message should probably be passed on to the vet she was seeing. I knew she called the vets, because they told me so, but thought she'd just called to inquire how Chloe was doing. Turns out Chloe did this when they first brought her in to rescue as well. So know I feel even better, confident that seasonal allergies is all that is going on. The woman from the rescue apologized for not getting back to me sooner, and felt bad I had to run all the way to the vet, but when I called one of her dogs was in the middle of a seizure. I was so sorry to hear that, she's already lost two dogs this year. It's not to surprising both were very old and had health problems. She takes in a lot of older and special needs dogs but knowing they have less time doesn't make the hurt any worse of course.
I'm very thankful my little girl is ok. Chloe has already responded well to the Benadryl and is doing well.