In all my 58 yrs of age, in all my years of owning dogs of every breed size and color, I have had happen something that has NEVER EVER happened to any one of my dogs.
Yesterday was Sasha, Samson, and Brandy Wines yearly exam and shots. Doc went over Sasha and Samson with a fine tooth comb...including xrays of Samsons hips (we have that done every 2 yrs), and a diabetes check on Sasha (we have that done every year now since she's over 8 yrs old). And then there is the pup...Brandy Wine is 4 yrs old now. Fat as mud, hyper as all get out, always on the move...Doc says, Brandy is doing fantastic.
After going over the results of Sasha and Samsons tests, weights and overall health condition, she gives each one their booster shots, rabies and Bordetella. All is good and we go home.
We get home, and all three run in the house and get a big drink of water. As each one finishes they come and I put their new rabies tags on their collars, and they wait beside me.
All that didn't take even 10 minutes to do. All of a sudden, Brandy starts flailing herself around the kitchen. Falling to the floor on her face and scooting her face all over the floor and the cabinets and standing up and doing it again only harder.
I talked to her "Brandy what are you doing that for?" Figuring she was still excited and hyper from the vet trip (my dogs love our vet and are always anxious to go). I put Samsons collar on and went and sat in my chair in the Livingroom and Brandy came in the room and was excreting slime from her nose and mouth. I called her to me and look at her face, thinking a hair was in her eyes or around her nose that she couldn't get off. She buried her head into my lap and began to push as hard as she could into my lap. I asked "Brandy what's wrong?" and I felt her eyes, her eyes were crying as bad as a human eye can cry. I got up and got a cold wet rag and put ice in it and laid that on her face. She seems to settle for just a split second and then began to throw her body around again, slamming her face straight down on the floor again.
I got her up, and looked and her muzzle was swelling huge. OMG!! Called my Vet and told her we were headed back in with Brandy, and told her that Brandy's face, eyes and mouth were swelling huge.
I got there in less than 8 minutes. They took her straight back and Dr. Jones came in...(we hadn't ever seen her before, but I've been with folks that used her for their pets, so I knew she was very nice and very good)...she told the tech to get Dr. Georgia and Dr. Virginia. Those are the 2 vets that sees my dogs. All three Vets began to work on Brandy. Her throat was swelling shut, her nose was huge and they felt she couldn't breathe properly. They quickly started IV's on her, giving her steroids', and a shot that works like Benedryl. They ran that bag of steriod into her running full blast. Within 3 to 4 minutes that entire bag was in Brandy. The Tech came in with another big shot, that went into Brandy's IV line...Doc said it was like a Vitamin K shot, but wouldn't stop the protection of her Lepto, Distemper or Rabies shot.
Within about 10 minutes of getting all this into Brandy, she was settled down, and much calmer. Though she was swelled like no ones business, and looked awful bad, her being calm and not slinging herself into walls and floors was awesome.
Now, I asked all three Vets "what the heck happened to her?"....her entire chart was in the room with us, all three going over her chart. I figured something really bad was wrong now. They said that Brandy either had an allergic reaction to the Lepto, the Distemper or the Rabies vaccine. I told them "that's impossible, she's had these shots since she was 8 weeks old, and never had any reaction to any of them before." I asked "did you change the manufacturer that you got them from? Is it a different strain of Lepto or distemper since Texas has had that huge outbreak in the last 2 yrs? I asked all kinds of questions and finally said "why did this happen to her?" They said they hadn't changed any thing chemical or manufacturer and that's why they went through her file all the way back to when she was a pup and I took her health records to them when we came to Texas. She received the exact same shots as she had gotten all her life. They showed me her chart.
They said had I waited 5 or 10 minutes longer to bring her back, that she would have died. She went limp as a dish rag once in the vets office, but did open her eyes when I talked to her.
How the heck does this happen? Doc says some older dogs will have reaction to them, and seemed perplexed that Brandy at 4 yrs old and the picture of good health had this reaction. All three Vets were working on her...techs were getting that breathing thing ready to be put down her throat...they worked fast, and what seemed like 30 minutes or longer was actually only about 15 minutes from the time we arrived to when Brandy felt better. It was horrifying...I just knew when she went limp as a dish rag, my dog was dying.
Vets called me 3 times after we got home to make sure she was ok. Gave me things to watch for and said give her 4 benedryl every 6 hours around the clock for 2 days. I am watching this pup so close that she thinks I'm weird...haha...this a cling on pup who can't stand to be out of the room away from me, thinks I'm weird for being right at her side, no matter where she goes. hahaha....paws on the other foot now huh?

She seems ok this morning...still a little swollen in the muzzle area, but is eating good, drinking like crazy, and resting well. Doc said the muzzle would be the last to reduce the swelling in.
So beware folks...this is the first time this has ever happened to me...and let me tell you what, it scared the pants right off of me.