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

Hey you. We are online at the same time!!

How are you and the wee man?

Mel
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Well Naomi, your a teacher so I am going with your verse, yay November is off and its October 32nd tomorrow :)

I heard from our vet, he wants to redo liver tests after a week of no GI issues. So all going well that is early next week. Pet Hospital receptionist called again but only to say she had not heard from IMS about when she will be back. So after we get next week tests results we will make a decision on how fast we need him scanned and reviewed down there.

He is good again today, but it was fish n chip night tonight and he was itching a lot, so hope that is not a precursor to any deterioration in the tummy department as they seem to go together. But he does tend to get excited when everyone is together. He got in trouble as Mum had bought Elle a little tunnel to crawl through which she does with surprising speed and leaps out to scare Flynn.... he tried to crawl through only to get the whole thing stuck around his middle! It has a big yellow fluffy ball on a string on the front and when we weren't looking he towed it over to his bed and chomped the ball off :eek::eek:

Then we had trick and treaters arriving, Mum usually locks her gate haha but this year she had bought some GIANT licorice all sorts and gave one to each kid on a napkin, it was so funny to see their faces thinking what the heck is this!! Jade had to get dressed up for her job in retail and arrived with a knife sticking out her head and blood running down her face and scared all the little kids when they called in :eek::eek: plus Flynn had to say hello to each of them. So it was very entertaining watching all this while we were all sitting out on the patio on a lovely warm Spring evening. So no wonder Flynny was amped up! xx

Hey Mel, how exciting, this does not happen very often!! Nice to see you, how are you and Boycie? Hopefully your work is a little better?? You work so hard and they are very lucky to have you!! :)

We are good, he is doing well, he is sleeping by his radiator in the hall as its winter now and he doesn't like the cold.

Work is still brutal, going through the merger has tipped it over the scales. We have been on this rollercoaster for over a year now, I had hoped it would improve but it seems to have got worse. Only thing that keeps me is the remote working so I can spend the days with my wee man.

Have got to start getting organised for Xmas as we go away, so have to take it all with us, I cook dinner so it's lots to do!

Did I read you have a trip coming up? I dont recall the destination.

Have you ever heard from Patti again? I do think of her and the little fella often.

Mel
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Where you off to for Christmas? That sounds like hard work not a holiday!! Your work does sound brutal, but that sounds like a great benefit being at home with Boyce, don't think I would have the self control to keep my work up would find something else to do around the house for sure :)

No, I haven't heard from Patti in ages. I too, hope she has found some peace and little Romeo has fitted in :)

I am off to Northland, to a little place called Pahia. Up in the Bay of Islands. It is a part of NZ I have never been to so I am looking forward to it. I have to find a pirate costume for a fancy dress party out on a boat so it should be fun, even though I generally hate dress up do's.

Near the coast again. Dorset this time. Just have to be organised. We go away quite a lot though for short breaks and trips so I have that down to a tee. Lots of lists. I like cooking when I have time so I start bits from the 23rd!

My neice and nephew will be coming for new year so it will be a packed holiday. I am trying to engineer it that way as we go to the same place and last year Tia started to get sick around Christmas so I don't want to think to much. Miss my little girl so much so want to stay busy

I wish she would nip in and let us know how she is but I know it became hard as she hated to see when we lost a pup and I think it got to her. I have been reading most days will try and post a bit more!

Love going places I havent been to explore! Sounds like fun, doing something you wouldnt normally. Do you have costume shops or are you gonna pull something together yourself? When you off and for how long?

Is Flynny happy to have his old food back? Did he get any fish tonight or are you still restricting his people food? How is his mouth since he got his toys back?

You are still going through the firsts so Christmas is going to be a hard one for sure. What is the weather like in Dorset at Christmas, I guess pretty cold... hope you get some snow!! Be fun having the littlies there for New Year, they always make holidays more fun. Our family has no little kids, we are waiting for my sisters kids to produce some but they are not cooperating yet! We all still go home to Mum and Dad's, we have on the odd occasion had it at mine or my sister's but we all agree it is not the same as at our home, which is still the house we all grew up in, they have never moved. Mum is 79 next month and Dad 81 now, so we all muck in and share out the dishes and take them around there to tuck in!

Yep I know she did not like it when the pups got sick, especially the tumour ones, bit too close to home.

A friend has given me a pair of stripy pants with zig zag bottoms so I need to get something to wear on top! Yes we do have costume shops, might have a look on the weekend and get some inspiration! I fly up next Wednesday and home Saturday so not away too long. Will have a list of instructions for my parents to look after Flynny, hope he keeps good like he is now.

He does have a bit of fish, but it is raw.. sushi!! He and Elle both line up next to the bench when Dad cuts it up and crumbs it and they wait for him to throw them the offcuts which they race each other for (Flynn usually wins), so he is still not getting any people food.

You are most definitely missed around here Mel, but it is nice to know you are not far away and I especially appreciate when everything gets so busy, many a night I have popped in then dozed off without posting!! So we just do what we can and catch up when we can :D

Cold! It's actually already colder than usual. I think we will probably get snow this year. It causes absolute chaos over here, the roads block up and the trains stop but it snowed the day I lost Tia so it makes me think she is with me when it snows so I hope it does. I love snow despite all the issues as is makes everything look magical and it so makes it more Christmassy :D

Shirt and a waistcoat come to mind with a coloured scarf around your head and a fake parrot :D

Bless them, I can picture that in my head, little monkeys know how to work your dad!

The madness of work has already started, I am really over it this week can't wait for the weekend!

Aww Tia is close by but that is nice you have her memories to warm you up when the snow comes down! She was such a beauty :)

I will take a pirate pic to show you what I came up with, maybe I should dread my hair Johnny Depp style... and put a gold tooth in ... yeah, nah :D:D:D I have a necklace a friend gave me just recently and it has a little glass bottle with fake pearls in it so I will wear that!

Flynny has already taken himself off to bed, pooped from the evenings fun! I keep checking him and those shakes he was having seem to be settling back to just his normal tremours so pleased to see that. His mouth seems good and no return of ulcers that I can see.

I hope your day goes without any major hassles Mel, so nice to catch up with you! xxxxxx

Hi all

Our vet contacted me again yesterday, he has had a bit more of a think about this liver situation and he wants to do bile acid testing along with a redo of the liver panel. So Flynny is going in Monday and has to be fasted for 12 hrs. Still it won't be so bad as it is overnight fasting, he gets a blood test, then has his breakfast then gets tested again to see the effect the food has on his numbers. But he does specifically want his tummy good for a week for these to minimise the effect GI issues have on his results.

AND YAY He is still doing good in the poops department, itching OK too (oh gawd hope that does not jinx us :rolleyes:) He has his energy back in the mornings, he just ripped up a toy after eating his brekky and then doing a normal poop... oh it does my heart good!! I cannot say for sure but that z/d food was not good for him although it did settle down his bowel. But he did not like it at all and he cannot live like that hating his food and only eating it when he really got starving.

He has also had no Tramdol for a week tomorrow and I have not noticed any difference in mobility so I have to wonder if that was affecting his liver too. Maybe it was treating me more than him, as with all of us we want them to be as comfortable as possible. But I had noticed with his latest bottle of Tramadol drops he did not tolerate it as well and was suspicious of the food and would sometimes refuse it if he could detect it and if I just squirted it in his mouth you would think I had put acid in there :eek::eek: So I am very pleased he is now off it with no apparent increase in discomfort.

Saturday morning already, the week has flown by! Have a good one everyone xxxx