3greys2cats

Hi and welcome from New Hampshire! Your furkids are beautiful.

So sorry, my deepest sympathy

What a beautiful tribute, run free sweet D.O.G., so sorry for your loss

I am so sorry for your loss, we have no control how long they will be w/us and you were there till the end, run free sweet baby. Will pray for peace to wash over you @ this difficult time.

So Sorry, my deepest sympathy, run free Song.

Adding my well wishes for Ra, poor baby, hoping the steroids help and she is on her way to recovery.

The will of this girl is amazing, all greys, "never underestimate" is an understatement!!!!!

Wishing you good healing thoughts.

Poor baby, give extra lovins and extra treats

Update on Sara, not sure how to change original thread. We went back to the vets this A.M. and they did another needle aspiration, this is not her regular vet, she is new at the practice but not a new vet, and also checked her thoroughly again. Her temp was normal and all her other nodes were normal, again no infection, mucous and salivary gland, not lymph node are what the swelling is, vet thinks she may have punctured(not sure if that is term she used, a salivary gland and as a result the saliva is filling up in this pocket, it makes sense, Sara eats these chicken jeeky treats, they are hard and sharp. There was no pus/infection in the sample they looked at either time from needle aspiration, only saliva, red blood cells. Unfortunately it could take month-2 months to heal, they don't give her anything to treat it, it could be repaired surgically, but they don't suggest that because there are too many other things in that area on her neck, too scary. She is not in any pain, that I can see, she is eating great, I will continue to watch it closely, if she experiences problems eating, or any pain to the touch, I will bring her right in to them. No more of the chicken treats, of course there are many other treats for Miss Sara!! She went through so much last year with her GME that I tend to worry about her constantly, she has not had a relapse of that horrible disease of which there is no cure, and she is a fighter, my miracle girl. Thanks for all the good wishes

The vet thought tooth thing to and she checked that, she said they looked fine? What tick born disease did Sheana have? I could have the vets test for that. We don't know for sure as tick titers are expensive and the most common treatment is antibiotics. The vet and I discussed it and decided that without tests to confirm our suspicions to just treat with doxy. It won't hurt her if it's not tick borne and if it is something else the fact that she is on the antibiotics makes her one step up on whatever is going on. Thanks , you have got me thinking, when she was due for her shots in January, she had just gone through 10 months chemo, prednisone, and phenabarb, 2 antibiotics, for her brain disease(GME) and her neurologist did not want her to be given the lyme vaccination without a tick titer so we had tick titer done, and results were negative, they did not give the vaccine for that reason.

The vet thought tooth thing to and she checked that, she said they looked fine? What tick born disease did Sheana have? I could have the vets test for that.

Sara, my (GME) girl has a swollen lymph node in her neck, a week ago I brought her to my vet and they did 2 needle aspirations and also checked all her other lymph nodes, took temperature, thorough checkup. She does not have cancer, phew!, temp normal and other nodes were fine, and so no meds were given. Last summer when she was on tons of meds for GME and chemo, she had the same swollen Lymph node that the vets checked and it went back to normal?? So , here I am a week later, the Lymph Node is still swollen, the vets called Monday to check on her and said to give it a week, well it 's a week and I just called to get another appt because even though she seems o.k, I am concerned. She has had liquiid poop, but she gets that occasionally(IBS), no other symptoms, still goes for her walks and did zoomies w/her stuffie in yard last night. Has anyone else experienced this?

Praying for Bailey too, hope she pulls through and is feeling better soon.

So sorry, she was a true inspiration, run free sweet girl, glad to know her through GT.

I am so sorry to read this, my deepest condolences and sympathy, the pictures show how sweet he was, my prayers to you and your family.

Adding lots of prayers for Bina, her symptoms do sound like GME, my Sara who was diagnosed last year w/GME suffered the same conditions, the wobbly, truncal sway, could not walk w/out assistance, sounds like your vets were thorough, definitely should not have had vaccines in her condition. Sara was on the prednisone, antibiotics, pepcid, carafate, phenabarbitol(she had seizures from the brain inflammation, and cytarabine(a chemo drug, she was 5 yrs almost 6 when diagnosed, she was on medications for 10 months, almost a year and it pushed the disease into remission. She just celebrated her 7th birthday on Monday and she is doing great, after a week on cytarabine, she regained a lot of mobility in her hind legs and started walking w/out assistance. There is a Dr Sisson @ Angell Memorial in Boston, Ma who specializes in this disease(GME/ inflammatory brain disease. I will find the link and foward to you. Hope she is feeling better soon.

Sorry, I am confused too, I saw a post from Lynn that said that sadly she had passed and now it is not showing up here. Will say prayers for Bina, hope to hear some good news.

I am so sorry to hear this, GME is a horrible disease but treatable, my deepest sympathy to you and your family, Bina is pain free now.

I feel your pain, Max, my male hides in my laundry room, I put his pillow in there and put the dryer on, it drounds out the noise, it is the noise that scares him the most, we had to drive in one for almost 2 hours Sunday, and then Mon and Tues same time, bad storms, he pants, shakes, poor baby, as soon as he gets in the laudry room, he calms down. I am thinking that he needs some type of meds too for the fireworks soon to be here!!!

Happy Birthday Quinn, loved his tribute and the Queen music too.

Adding my deepest prayers for Bailey to have a peaceful release into freedom from this pain, you and your DH did everything you could. My thoughts are w/you today, may you find peace and acceptance.

After going through this w/my Sara, I am saddened to see that Bailey is still suffering, the drugs that were given pushed her into remission because she was diagnosed right away, there are not enough doctors(Vets) who understand GME that know it well enough to say that a year remission is all the result will be. The immunosuppressant drugs, chemo , cytarabine, don't think I spelled it right, are the key in most critical cases, the article written by Dr Sisson explains it perfectly. When this happened to us last year, I was alone w/3 greys, my husband travels 2 weeks out of every month, I was so full of fear that I could not handle what she needed but I owed it to her. After carrying her up and down stairs and watching her struggle, my husband and I discussed that if she did not regain complete mobility, that we would put her down, she was peeing on pads at the Intensive Care unit in the Hospital and being hand fed, after a week there on the chemo drug cytarabine, she stood up on her own and was released, she pulled through. I have a lot of compassion for you but anger will not help Bailey, she needs to not feel like it is her fault that she is sick, animals are intuitive to our emotions. I truely believe that she is asking for you to let her go, she has no quality of life and it is being prolonged. Don't wait for the vet to give you the answer, you have it already and Bailey is counting on you to be strong. God makes the decision for us, I am praying that you will let her go to the Bridge peacefully.

Reading this is so heartbreaking, sending prayers and hugs for Bailey, that her suffering be over

I am so sorry to see that Bailey is not getting better, she has been on my mind since we exchanged emails, I wish that there was something else that could be done for her, the poor baby has suffered and you have along w/her. My prayers that God will help you through this, Aerosmom has been through this, as I have, it is so frustrating and painful to see them struggle and not coordinate their balance. Greys are beautiful, graceful dogs who are about movement and I struggled w/prolonging Sara's life if she could not walk on her own, I understand your hopelessness. Hang in there, GT is the best support group, I am sending hope your way in bucket loads.