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I hope Henry feels better soon.

Holding good thoughts for Cash.

I am so very sorry. Godspeed, Corey

I am so very sorry. Run free, Sahara.

I am so happy to hear that Penny is home with mom and dad where she belongs. I hope the healing continues apace.

I am so very sorry. Godspeed, Whitey.

Murphy is gorgeous. Just keep loving on him. That's all he cares about. Well, love and food!

Sending prayers for Joe.

Wonderful news! I'll bet THAT made your day!

I hate to hear she is hurting but I have to say I love that it is ilipsoas and not C. Heal well, Princess Penny.

I am so very sorry. Godspeed, Adam.

Now that you have a diagnosis, fingers crossed for an eventless and speedy recovery for pretty Miss Minerva.

No advice, just good thoughts for you and your boy.

No judgements. This started long before you ever knew Murphy. All he will know with you is love, and tennis balls, and food and cuddles and everything that is wonderful in his life. What an amazing gift that is to give him. Love. Love. Love. For you, this is beyond unfair and so very sad. Hold on to the fact that you are giving Murphy the very best life he could have.

Allergies at work. I am so very sorry. Run free, Heidi.

I am so very sorry to read about your loss. Try to remember that your boy left you while you were there, and he was happy. That is a true gift. No pain, no illness. I promise I am not saying that out of the blue. I lost my girl Morgaine suddenly, 3 weeks after her sixth birthday and 5 days before Christmas of 2006. I left home that morning with a silly, happy girl who got off the elevator on the wrong floor and made me chase her to get her back and to my own apartment. No clue at all that anything might be wrong with her. By 3 pm my unflappable friend and dog walker called in a panic that she was in massive seizures in the apartment. I rushed home and spoke with my own vet on the way and he told me that is sounded like she was in status epilepticus, and that it was highly unlikely that we would have a good outcome but that he knew I would take her to the evet near me. Nothing could be done. We have no way of knowing when she started seizing. We only know what time Kelly got there. I am still not completely over beating myself up over it. I know that she always had the best medical care. She had a "mom" who adored her. She had a vet who loved her. She had a walker who loved her and worked so very hard with her to alleviate her SA. She had patients at the nursing home who loved her visits. There was something inside of her that I had no control over. My vet likened it to people who collapse while crossing the street, or athletes who die without warning. I want to say don't beat yourself up over this, you couldn't have changed it. I know that is true. I know that no one else is thinking anything close to that about you. Clearly, you loved and cared for your pup and are heartbroken. If it helps at all, I did a lot of searches and put together a whole Excel spreadsheet modeling the possibility of ever going through that experience again (I adopted within 10 days) and found that the results of such a sudden death were ridiculously low. Less than 2%. It is rare.

Gee, I think I want to take that as good news! Hugs to Legs.

I am holding very good thoughts for Fiona, I hope you get that same "Benign" phone call that I did. Aquitaine's BP went down significantly when she came home as well.

Must be nothing more than a need to be a drama king for a brief moment.

I am so very sorry. Godspeed, Fletcher.

Heal well, Wren.

Keeping you and Thunder in my thoughts and prayers.

Aquitaine had an emergency splenectomy in December 2011. She had a softball sized mass in her spleen removed, biopsied, found bening. She did have some elevated BP and arrythmia (sp?) after the surgery so they kept her for a couple of extra days. She came home and healed quite well. The only issue was that three staples were missed at the first removal. She seems to be a dog that does better with stitches as she did not like the staple removal AT ALL! She was diagnosed late last summer with PLN by an internal specialist here in NYC. The Greyhound Wellness Program at OSU said they would not have made that diagnosis based on her blood/urine levels. I am treating her as if she does have PLN and monitoring her levels very closely. Holding very good thoughts for Fiona.

I am so very sorry. Run free, pretty Mercedes.

Have to go along with everyone else, second opinion quickly. I have a virtually toothless girl, and a previous girl whose tongue just was too big to stay in her mouth, the tongues get dry (I poke/d them back in) but they are/were still pink, never blue.