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RobinM

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  1. Tipapia. Just the word makes me cringe. Thanks for your prayers.
  2. Early evening update. Beau is no longer shaking, panting and isolating. He is now with us all in the den, just hanging. When I fed everyone else, he showed no interest. Hoping that changes tomorrow. Thanks everyone.
  3. I was surprised to see on the bill that they gave him 50mg of tramadol muscularl so it is throughout the day. Tomorrow we start the flagyl but continue on the pedcid. Just received email from my vet (she was not in today) and said she called to speak to the vet I did see (I had emailed her about Beau). She said give it 48 hours. If there is no improvement, she wants him back on budesonide. I haven't felt this scared and helpless in a long time. I know we have been extremely fortunate having had a 3 year run. And I was so grateful for that and never took it for granted. Hoping this will pass quickly. To see my crazy silly and very vocal boy depressed and so quiet, it really hits hard. The pain is from the colitis. He is not gassy at all.
  4. This is an incredible tribute to an incredibly loved pup. I am so sorry.
  5. I am so sorry, such a beautiful and loved girl.
  6. Agreed. I have 3 of my 6 hounds on raw.
  7. We had this with Ollie. Once we switched him to a raw diet, life got much simpler and now his poop are the size of cat poop. Not bad for a 92 pound dog!
  8. We are pretty vigilant. Have we gotten a little relaxed? Maybe. There are 5 other dogs in the house and I can only guess that there is always a possibility that he got something he shouldnt have when we didn't see. But we dont know. Very frightening.
  9. Beau woke me to go out to poop every 45 minutes to an hour round the clock last night. When he squatted to poop, he SCREAMED out in pain. I gave him a pepcid at 11pm last night and brought him into the our vet who as ER hours today. He is flaring. He got a shot and we are keeping him NPO today. Tomorrow we start Flagyl 500 2x a day for 5 days. Anyone who remembers what we went through with our Beau Beau in 2009 when diagnosed and when initially treated knows this was a nightmare. Please keep Beau in your thoughts and prayers. I am flipping.
  10. Thanks all. She had her first shot yesterday. Vet said that if things don't get noticably better within 5 days, we will try something else.
  11. Thanks Jey. This is forcing me to believe she's really 13. She is so youthful, active and all around a crazy insane puppy that I had lost sight of it. Hoping for many more crazy years with Lou Lou bean.
  12. This has been coming on for a while, but it's been confirmed. Actually, my vet said many dogs are often said to have it, ts not a true LS. Lots of old dog of have rear end weakness. It was confirmed yesterday with Elsie. She is 13 She has it and is text book in symptoms and how diagnosed. Push here, down she does. She pivots when turning, and knuckles one foot. I asked my vet for the Depo shot for Elsie. She Said that because she is positive it's LS, if anyone would respond to this treatment it's my Lou. If not, we will Go to othe protocols. Anyone here have success with the Depo shot?
  13. Oh, Pat, I am so sorry.
  14. OMG How horrible. I am so sorry. Devasting.
  15. I am so sorry Anne. I agree with a 2nd opinion, preferably from a specialist.
  16. Wow Kyle, you are meeting yourself coming and going. We've been inundated with tlp issues so I unfortunately missed this. So happy that your girl is on the mend.
  17. I am so sorry. I remember when you got her, it feels like yesterday... God speed, beautiful.
  18. Zoo blah Dee came to me as my consolation prize after losing her half brother to the deadly FIP disease at 22 months old. Zoobie had been returned to the breeder because, although she had the perfect markings of an AKC Birman cat for show, she was a little girl, too small for showing. The first time I saw Little Girl and that pink nose I squealed at how cute she was. There were no words to describe the sweetness of her face and those crystal marble eyes. She was the sweetest fragile rose petal. She was loved by Yoshi (her half brother and the full brother of the one who died) and she saved his life, as Yoshi had gone into a severe depression and had been hiding for about 6 weeks, until Little Girl appeared and brought him back out. She was not so loved by Belle (our bully Russian Blue rescue) who tried to beat her up at any opportunity. Zoobie loved the greyhounds and trusted them, weaving herself in and out of their legs for affection. We never called her zoobie, she was always Little Girl. Little was the definition of a scaredy cat. She spent most of her life in hiding, coming out for food and in the middle of the night to scream in our faces in bed that she wanted ear scritches. And when she screamed, usually around 2 or 3 in the morning, once we were asleep, it was loud and relentless. While we hated it and often pushed her away, oh what we wouldn't do now to hear her screaming for attention one more time. About 3 weeks ago I noticed she was spending more time sitting out in the open and was up on the counter a lot. When I picked her up I was stunned at the amount of weight she had lost. She was a tiny little girl weighing only about 7 pounds soaking wet at her at her healthiest. I made a vet appointment for that weekend, however the next night I found a puddle of fresh blood which she had vomited, and took her right in. The vet could feel the mass in her lower body. We were hoping that if it were cancer that it would be operable, but when they opened her up the next morning it was her stomach and had started to spread to her intestines. She was down to 5 pounds. I couldn't see putting her through 25 weeks of chemo considering how frail she was. Following her surgery Zubbie found a new place to hide so I built her a nest in the grandchildren's bedroom closet. She ate a bit and would come out for attention a bit and stayed to herself a lot, as usual. When she came out we loved her to pieces and when I brought some new toys home she played. The biopsy came back lymphosarcoma and it was an aggressive stage. We opted for prednezone and if she did well, possibly a few chemo treatments further down the road, but that was not meant to be. We were supposed to guest speak at GIG today and boarded Little Girl, which we never had done before, always leaving our cats at home when we were away. I felt horribly guilty dropping her off on thursday. I received an email from my vet that night at 11pm just letting me know that Little Girl had a good day, was eating well and looked good. As happy as I was to read that I had a lingering fear that this was the beginning of the end. Early this morning my vet called to tell me that Little Girl did not look good at all. She was retreating to the tent in the crate with her face to the back. She was hooked up to an IV to keep her hydrated, even though she was not dehydrated at all. She hoped she would bounce back. I told her we would do the seminar at 2 and head right back. She said she would meet us there after hours when we got back so we could take her home. No sooner than when I hung up I realized I could not do the seminar and immediately called the vet back to say I was heading right home. She told me that she was just about to call me back. That Little Girl really didn't look well and she was afraid she wouldn't make it til I arrived back home. I told her we were packing and would be on our way. Less than 10 minutes later she called back. When I answered the phone she started crying and said "I'm so sorry..." I have such regret for not being there, for letting her die alone in a strange place. We knew it was coming but didn't want to believe it could happen so soon. We never would have gone to GIG had we thought it possible. My vet has tried to assure me that cats are very different than dogs. That when it is their time they want to isolate and be alone, which is why she retreated into the tent. Though she did not put forth the largest presence you knew when she was not around and she will be sorely missed. There were just certain times when we expected to see Little Girl and knowing it is never again to be leaves a large hole in my heart. She was our Little Girl and we miss her. Rest easy my princess we will always love you For any GIG goers who had thought they might see our speaking engagement, we apologize. I couldn't bear to make her wait at the vet until Monday. We buried her in our backyard.
  19. Lene, I am so sorry to hear about your beautiful lady.
  20. No words. I am shocked to see this. I am so sorry. God Speed beautfiul boy. You were one in a million.
  21. For us, the answer is yes, Ollie can't eat Chicken but Duck and turkey is OK.
  22. I thought it was a insurance denial! Polli lost 17 teeth when we adopted her at 8.5 and demanded, and I mean demanded with feet stomping and all, her dinner. We wound up feeding her about 11 pm almost a whole meal of kibble and chicky. (soaked of course) She was able to handle regular food from the beginning. I guess it depends on the dogs comfort level.
  23. My vet is on vacation so I could not ask her. She will be in tomorrow and my kitty is there with a live mass so I will see her. My only concern and I use that word for lack of a better one is the pred AND the budesonide. My understanding was it was one or the other. Although it made Beau, NOT Beau while he was on the pred, it did save his life along with the imuran. As I had mentioned in the email, we only lowered the pred when the weight started being put back on. Your dog is not being stabalized and the meds are getting lowered. For Beau it was 60 mg for 3 weeks after his open abdominal surgery. 3 weeks we added in imuran. Within the month, we started lowering the pred. But we only lowered the pred when the weight started coming on. We fed him 40 pounds of tilapia a week which we baked in tin foil and fed him nothing but tilapia for 3 weeks.Nothing but tilapia. We weighed out enough at every meal so that we made sure he was getting 1500 calories a day. When he was in the peak of gaining he had up to 2800 calories a day We would basically feed what he would eat within reason. We kept a journal in a notebook of every meal, every bite and kept that going for several months. We fed him Every 3 hours round the clock. We had the alarm set for 2:30 AM and my son came home from highschool during his lunch break to help out and feed him. He also had to pee like a race horse every 3 hours because of the pred and the water intake. OSU had no experience with the budesonide so they were of no help at that time. Most vets don't. At this time, I highly suggest you ask on the IBD YAHOO group if it is "normal protocol" to give both pred and Bud at the same time. They are not vets but very knowegable about IBD. You have to fill out their form to join, but it's a good, free and immediate way to get some answers. Thinking about you and your baby.
  24. I agree with greyhead. Only 3 mg for your pup and as I mentioned in my email I never head of using both pred and the budesonide. I think it's too much. When we used bud, Osu was not familiar with it, I don't know if they are now. I'm going to email my vet for you.
  25. How much pred? It wasn't until beau had 60 mgs of pred AND 50mg of immuran that the turnaround came. Within a month we started lowering the pred. I would o the z/d0nly with a mild fish. We did tilapia. Z/d cookies too. We've Been there done that. beau has come a long way.
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