andyjg13

Thank you all.

I had to let my beautiful baby girl, Chellie, go to the bridge on Saturday. She had osteosarcoma. I put up a memorial for her here: http://icucodeblue.critters.com/

My boy Hotshot has corns on both his front feet and the Thera Paws work wonders. He hates to wear them, but he walks without a limp with them on.

My Chellie had a limp and the vet missed a lesion on the x-rays. The radiologist is the one that spotted her osteo. She has swelling in her shoulder, though. I hope you get some answers soon. Andy

I get this error (503) quite a bit when I access from my work computer. It's a Navy computer on the NMCI network, so that may be why. Usually I just hit refresh and it works most of the time.

A few years ago we adopted out a greyhound named Mamie Van Doren. The adopters found Ms. Van Doren's website online and sent her an email about they grey that they just adopted with her name. Well, it turns out that Ms. Van Doren has a retired racer herself! She has pictures of her hound on the website and even put a picture of Mamie Van Doren up (I won't include the website here because there are also some racy pictures of Ms. Van Doren).

http://halloforoswald.critters.com/

It was time for Ozzy to go to the bridge today. He will be missed Hallo For Oswald "Ozzy" September 24, 2003-May 24, 2011

Still no exact diegnosos, but Auburn doesn't think it's cancer. They won't completely rule it out, though. He has some inflammation on his brain and some swelling. It appears to be idiopathic. He also has high blood pressure, but that may be the prednisone. Poor guy only weighs 52 lbs, down from his normal 70. The resident doctor that was treating Ozzy studied under Dr. Couto at OSU and she said she will be consulting with him on Ozzy.

Ozzy goes to Auburn to see the neurologist tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Heard today that the MRI was sent to Dr. Couto, so hopefully we're hear something before the end of the week. Either way, Ozzy will likely make a trip to Auburn University for treatment options. The two tumor possibilities we heard today were choroid plexus carcinoma or choroid plexus papilloma. Hang in there Ozzy.

It may be Prilosec, I'm not sure. I get those two confused. I will pass on your recommendation for Carafate. Thank you.

And she is well aware of it! They spoiled her at the track long before she came to me.

He ran all his races in Ebro, FL, and retired to southern Alabama. Thank you for the info.

He shows a lot of the symptoms of vestibular syndrome. Some of his symptoms include: --trouble walking with loss of balance to the left side (this gets better after he walks for a little bit) --slight head tilt to the left --loss of appetite --eyes darting from side to side (although, my mom hasn't noticed this for a few days) --head tremors --fatigue (when going for walks he wears out quickly, but that could be the prednisone) I can't think of any more at the moment. Mom has been cooking a lot for him because he's lost interest in regular dog food, but he's starting to turn down cooked meals now. Then he will go outside and eat grass. He's on Pepcid for upset stomach from the prednisone, but that doesn't seem to be helping much. Even through all his symptoms, he's still showing signs of his old self. He still gets up and comes to the door when mom picks of his lead and he still loves going for walks. He will still stand in front of mom and wait for her to scratch his back, which he loves. Last night she told me that he was laying down with his paws straight out in front of him with his head up and his eyes bright and alert, like there was nothing wrong. Here's a picture of Ozzy from this past Christmas. That's my little girl Chellie laying behind him. I don't know what all the tick panel tested for. I just assumed they tested for all tick borne diseases.