Flynn 11 y/o Foxie Cross - Right adrenalectomy- Good Bye Flynny We will miss you

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Originally Posted by doxiesrock912

Good news Trish!

With Daisy's recent Trilo adjustment, the subject of numbers came up for us too and Dr. Morgan (IMS) said that she's more concerned with how she's actually feeling than the numbers.

Glad that Flynn is doing better!!!

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Valerie, Flynn isn't on cushing's treatment - he had a Pheo. :confused: The numbers for Flynn are vastly important...as are those for Daisy even tho you are talking about two different "numbers". ;)

Hey Trish,

I'm not sure what Flynn's numbers all mean either but I am sure glad about the discussion on how to keep the urine for a UPC.:)

I know Lori mentioned she always has a urinalysis done with a UPC, do you do so as well? I'm trying to plan my strategy for Zoe in August and have a pit in my tummy about her possible kidney values.

I'm so happy Flynn is feeling good and the mouth issues have resolved. Good Boy Flynn.:):) I hope the two of you have many walks on the beach this week and if you happen across a penguin, think of me;)

Hi Trish:
Thanks for all the help on the kidney stone. Yes the meds are to help me pass the stone. I think Flovent if I am not mistaken. Glad you told me about the laser I can't imagine a normal surgery. The stone is too small to do Lithotripsy, so I am on these meds for a week. May have to use meds to dissolve it if that does not work. Getting an xray and blood work after a week on the meds. They gave me a strainer and container to go in on the potty. I have been straining my urine, I saw what looked like 2 small tiny crystals, so tiny I could not get them into a specimen bottle. Either they were others in there or maybe pieces of the other one. It is hard to believe something this small can cause so much misery. It has been 15 years since my last one so I am lucky. He said he will find out, but is guessing uric acid crystals. Worried about taking this drug when it comes as he said it can affect your heart. Do you know anything about that?? Thank you for your help and I hope Flynn continues to do well. We are suffering in the heat and humidity we are in the mid to upper 90's. Blessings
Patti

When I was in high school, my mom took my brothers out of state to visit her family, leaving Daddy and me at home. Dad woke up Sat. morning in pain, bad pain. He called his doc who came to the house (they still did that in those days! :p) and told him he had a kidney stone...all he could do was try to pass it. Hour after hour after hour I watched my strong dad with tears flowing down his face going in and out of the bathroom. Later I heard an awful sound from his bedroom and found him standing by their bed with a pine ball about 8" in diameter in his hand. This was a ball that was part of a solid poster and he had twisted it off as the stone passed! :eek::eek::eek: This was the first of many for him to come and one of the biggest he had to face - he showed it to me; it looked like something alien with all these little spikes on it! In later years, he had the underwater busting procedure as well as surgeries to remove them. I feel for anyone who has to deal with these and hope you are back on your feet very soon!

That cheeky monkey of mine just took on a Doberman!!! Every evening a man down the road walks his dogs in the school fields next to my house.. one mini schnauzer (very fat with a pot belly I might add!) and the Doberman, he kicks a ball for the doby and every time Flynn hears that ball getting kicked he barks his head off and wants to get over there to the school! Well as fate would have it I went to take him for a quick walk when I got home and they all met up. Flynn is NEVER aggressive to dogs, he has been bitten three times all by big black dogs and is a bit leery of them but I have never seen him growl at others, but he did tonight he positively snarled!! Crikey - I was embarrassed, the guys said to leave them alone and they would sort it out... the Doberman was scared of Flynny and cowered and slunk around, then off they went running around together chasing the ball. OMG! BAD DOG!!!!

OMG!

I still have so much to learn. I thought that a pheo was something related to Cushings.

I'm so sorry.

HI Valerie

Flynn had a few symptoms of cushings, but not the most typical ones like excessive drinking and peeing, his LDDS testing was negative but the ultrasound found the tumour in his adrenal gland. The pheochromocytoma which is the type of adrenal tumour he had does not usually interfere with cortisol production, but they do release catecholamines like adrenaline (the one that gives the fight or flight reaction when we get a fright or stressed) so his poor little body was forever in a state of stress, it is often characterised by high BP that we saw with Flynn. Other adrenal tumours do give cushings symptoms and can raise cortisol, so it is all a bit confusing!! So the numbers we are looking at for Flynn are left over from his prolonged hypertension that affected his kidneys, that is the urine test protein:creatinine ratio or UPC or UP:CR!!

His high liver tests are most likely due to benign liver nodules that we know he has. He has also had liver cancer prior to the adrenal tumour being found and had a good third of his liver resected back in Nov 2011 (now 21months!) and that has been clear since when they have checked for any spread on ultrasound!! So we monitor that as well :) So with two cancers and both big surgeries he has had his share and so it is lovely to see him doing so well now!!!

WOW!
Flynn is SUPER DOG.

That's amazing!

Thank you for explaining, I see how it can be confusing.

Trish:
Your Flynn has been through so much. He has to have super powers to have endured all he has. God Bless him, and you for getting your baby through all of this. Blessings
Patti

awww...Flynn has been through quite a bit..not just his adrenal stuff but liver as well! Wow, he has come through everything like a champ!
I guess if he gets a little annoyed by a Doberman then we have to forgive him! :D
Sometimes there is just something about another dog that sets them off. We encounter so many dogs when we're out walking...our neighborhood is loaded. Once in awhile Trixie will pass a dog and just start growling....we always wonder what was that all about!? My husband will say Trixie just didn't like that dogs face! :D (or scent I think more likely!)
Maybe Flynn doesn't appreciate the noise from all that ball kicking ;)

Barbara