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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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 Posted - Jun 27 2011 : 07:00:05 AM
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Looks like today is the day. Hope all goes well and she's better than ever soon!
Kris
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - Jun 27 2011 : 07:58:13 AM
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will be thinking of you today. hope it all goes well. sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
farm girl #1014
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jun 27 2011 : 08:08:04 AM
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Hi girls...dropped Rose off today at the vet--she got a bath last night, and has new "clothes" as Violet calls her new collar :) Thanks for your good thoughts throughout the day--they said they will call us around 3:00, when she's waking up from her sedation.
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
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grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2011 : 10:57:35 AM
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Well, waiting to talk with the doc. Seems that when they opened her up, there was no torn ACL, so he's thinking it's now disc related, and arthritis has settled into bulged discs, causing this on/off effect. We're trying steroids for the next two weeks and if that doesn't do anything, then he believes it's Canine Degenerative Myelopothy--which is incurable, and she will become paralyzed and we'll need to euthanize her in a matter of a year or so. So, the "who know's" to me are a little bit worse than the former diagnosis...continue thinking good thoughts for Rose and hope that it's a bulged disc that we can take steroids for whenever the pesky thing acts up, instead of the latter option...
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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StrawHouseRanch
True Blue Farmgirl
1044 Posts
Paula
Holt
Missouri
USA
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Posted - Jun 27 2011 : 11:53:13 AM
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Jonni,
Wow, what a blow!!! Did your vet do some DNA testing to determine CDM? It seems like quite a jump of assumptions to go from torn ACL to that. Be careful, do some research on CDM and maybe get a second opinion before you go too far with anything radical.
Hugs to all of you.
Paula
Farmgirl Sister #3090
A Beehive is the ultimate Home Sweet Home
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Jun 27 2011 : 11:58:13 AM
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Yeah, it really is, Paula. I did do a little prelim searching on my own, and my good friend's daschund had CDM (he was 16) and it was just terrible to watch him those last months. His vet is a good friend of ours, and I've already contacted her for a bit of guidance--I'm just not sure I like the turn this took. I guess my thought, too, is, if you felt that there was something on the xray to do surgery, why isn't it there now?
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
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Posted - Jun 27 2011 : 1:07:49 PM
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Oh Jonni!
I have not heard of CDM. Hopefully you can find a good vet to guide you.
Have you ever used the interns in Milford? They are wonderful. They are pricey, not horribly, but many times, if I had gone to them 1st, I could have saved mucho bucks.
My male dane, had a heart murmur at 2 that all other vets were giving me horrible reports on; the interns determined it was a functional murmur; he lived to 10 (all 220 lbs of him)
Then Willow got very sick, we did not know why, she was down & would not move. Maysville kept her 3 days, ran millions of tests, said she had a growth in her abdomen. I took to Milford; 30 minutes later, diagnosis: kidney infection, a $10 bottle of sulfa & done. The kidney in dogs floats & the other vets had me in a panic.
Anyway, they are my go to vets for anything odd.
Praying for your sweet snooted beauty...
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nut4fabric
True Blue Farmgirl
885 Posts
Kathy
Morgan Hill
CA
USA
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Posted - Jun 27 2011 : 3:28:45 PM
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Jonni I hope and pray that Rose is going to be ok, every little girl and boy need a nanny. Our daughter had our Doberman as a nanny and they were so cute together. I say that having to make that hard decision about our furkids is the curse of loving them so much but I will continue to have them as the house is just not the same without them.
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wooliespinner
True Blue Farmgirl
1311 Posts
Linda
Manchester
Ohio
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Posted - Jun 28 2011 : 09:32:02 AM
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Sorry to hear about Rose. I would do some research and maybe take her to a different vet with the xrays the other vet took. Thats a big change in diagonis. Good luck to you both.
Linda
Raspberry Run Farm
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Barnyard Buddies: Rose, ACL Surgery Update |
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Rose, ACL Surgery Update
