Poor Simone

So, less than a week after Simone's allergic reaction, we ended up taking her back in to the vet because she had been getting us up every 3 hours during the night. An exam, bloodwork, and urinalysis later: she has a bladder infection. Poor puppy. How she got that I'll never know. They started her on some amoxicillin, which she was one for three days before the results of her urine culture came back letting us know that the particular strain of bacteria whooping it up in her bladder right now (Enterobacter spp) is resistant to that drug. So, last night we went and picked up her new prescription (Cipro). Gave her two pills at 6pm, and by 8:30, she was acting funny: sneezing, rubbing her head on the carpet, and "talking" to us. We initially thought she was being playful, and it took us another 20 minutes to see that her eyes were nearly swollen shut and it looked like she was trying to blow up a balloon. We called our vet's office, whose answering service patched us through to the on-call vet. Sure enough, Simone was having an allergic reaction to the Cipro. She had us give Simone three benadryl and keep an eye on her breathing. The swelling started to go down around 11pm, and she slept through the night (although I didn't). So, we'll try again with another antibiotic this afternoon, one that hopefully won't cause her to go into anaphylactic shock. Keep your fingers crossed for us!