Lena, Teacup Poodle w/ adrenal tumor - Lena is now an angel

Okay, they did an echo cardiogram and it didn't show CHF, but apparently she has a murmur and the walls of the heart are a little thick? When the head vet came out to tell me, I asked about the crackle because that is why I thought I was there, and he said that he was told that there was a murmur...I told him I was very confused. The cute one never said murmur, he said crackle and admitted to reading the wrong chart (our chihuahua has a heart murmur). So he did xrays for free to check on that (it was the least he could do after all the $ I have spent there in the last few months, not to mention years with all the pets that we have!). They heard a little something so they changed the antibiotic she was on to Clavamox.

He also said we should keep an eye on her blood pressure, at which point I reminded him that we just did on January 30. He looked at her eye and said it looked fine.

I questioned the urinalysis on Dec. 10 and he said the blood was probably from the way they got the urine.

So, all in all, if I can believe they know what they are doing, she is doing well.

After we got back, I made a fire and put the big dog bed on the floor in front of it (Lee was sleeping on another one next to me, the poor little girl was so pooped!). I laid down on the dog bed and woke up to her licking my face and rolling on her side like she used to for kisses and belly farts. I think if I didn't have to work and could stay home with her, she would feel much better.

I asked for and got a copy of the echo. Tomorrow I am going to try to scan it to a JPEG and upload it. It may or may not work...if not what do you want me to post?

I felt good asking pertinent questions today and I think my vet was a little surprised!

LOL!

Oh this Is good news! Did he say anything specifically about the fluid. What might have cause it and if that is now decreasing? Just curious since she is feeling so much better of that isn't getting better too.
So I think that just the ACTH and a blood draw to check the other values and see if they are more in line now that she is being treated with trilostane. Don't freak though if liver values remain high. They don't always go down. Some do some don't so no panic. I don't think that I would get a follow up internal ultrasound yet then. Just me personally. I tend to do those every 6 months or sometimes only once a year unless something comes up. I do it to keep an eye on the nodule in Mollys adrenal that it hasn't enlarged and to check liver kidneys etc. So depending on how Lena is doing and if you feel and the vets feel she needs one. You can make that decision.
It is good to feel that your vets have a ha ladle in what is going in with her and on track to take care of her. Less worrying for you.

That is so cute her wanting belly farts. I do that to Molly too. Lol

Over all good report! Thanks for letting us know.

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Originally Posted by molly muffin

Oh this Is good news! Did he say anything specifically about the fluid. What might have cause it and if that is now decreasing? Just curious since she is feeling so much better of that isn't getting better too.
So I think that just the ACTH and a blood draw to check the other values and see if they are more in line now that she is being treated with trilostane. Don't freak though if liver values remain high. They don't always go down. Some do some don't so no panic. I don't think that I would get a follow up internal ultrasound yet then. Just me personally. I tend to do those every 6 months or sometimes only once a year unless something comes up. I do it to keep an eye on the nodule in Mollys adrenal that it hasn't enlarged and to check liver kidneys etc. So depending on how Lena is doing and if you feel and the vets feel she needs one. You can make that decision.
It is good to feel that your vets have a ha ladle in what is going in with her and on track to take care of her. Less worrying for you.

That is so cute her wanting belly farts. I do that to Molly too. Lol

Over all good report! Thanks for letting us know.

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Thanks, Sharlene...he never really said much about the fluid, just put her on the Clavamox to stop whatever might be there or beginning. I don't care as long as she starts feeling better.

It was so weird to wake up to her doing all that last night. At first I thought I was dreaming. She's loved the belly farts since she was a baby! The more she does what she used to do, the more I realize how much I missed it...but again, as in the symptoms, it was gradual. I just hope she doesn't get upset now because my 3-day weekend is over and I have to go back to work.

We got up at our usual time 5:15ish, quick potty break, then on the couch to go back to sleep for an hour...but I just lay there enjoying having her sleeping next to me. I'll be a zombie all day at work, but who cares!

I just put Lena's echocardiogram report in her album (my scanner at work can make a JPEG!). It's hard to read, I don't know what the abbreviations/terms are, but it looks like everything the vet said.

Hopefully she is sleeping soundly waiting for me to come home....I hate having to work for a living!

Gads, I don't know if I could read that just looking at the paper itself. Scribbly LOL. It sort of looks like a recheck isn't needed for 9 months? if so then it doesn't seem like anything dire or worrisome was seen.

It is very good to see them doing the things they always loved to do all over again.

That's the part I could read too! lol.

Finally finished reading your whole thread. Lol So happy Lena is doing so well! The eye thing rang a bell so I wanted to out my 2 cents in. (Finally feel like I can give back!) Right before the Cushings diagnosis, the same thing happened to Maggie. Her eye actually looked like it was popping out. For a Boston, that's pretty bad! Turned out she had an infection in her tooth and the swelling was pulling the skin down. A round of antibiotics cleared it up. So there wasnt anything ever wrong with the eye. Hopefully, it was something like that. :)

That's what the vet thought when she saw her Thursday (even though she wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't said it was larger...I know my girl)....she is on antibiotics and it does look better. She did have 8 teeth pulled just a couple of weeks before the Cushing's diagnosis, so an infection wouldn't be a surprise.

I was home for the holiday weekend and I think she really missed me because she must've gotten up looking for me a lot of times...could tell from all the pee on the wee wee pads. She usually sleeps all day when I'm at work and probably forgot the routine. Problem is my Puggle marks wherever someone else pees, so came home to a huge mess! And my big guy Gable gets so upset whenever the Puggle pees (because he would NEVER do anything like that) that when I let them out he won't come back in until I beg him to.

I really need to win the lotto so I can stay home!

Lena was in respiratory distress tonight and I had to rush her to the Emergency Room. They think she has a thrombosis clot...I think that's what they said. Her heart is enlarged and something is going on in her lungs. She is in an oxygen tank and they are keeping her. They did blood work, xrays and have her hooked up to an IV. She was so upset when I kissed her goodbye. She has never stayed overnight in a hospital in the 14 1/2 years we've had her. My heart is breaking and I can't stand the thought that she is there.

I was just getting ready to go the the ER when I finally got my vet on the phone, he told me to keep her calm and watch her. I did that for about 1 minute and then took off. It's a good thing I didn't listen to him. I am so afraid she is going to die all alone in the hospital.

Oh Joan, sending prayers your way for Lena to pull through this hurdle. I'm so sorry for what Lena and you are going through tonight.
Be strong for Lena as she needs you when she wakes up tomorrow. Many hugs. Song