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

So, Flynn is having another scan next month... Ugh, I would be scared too. Hopefully, his BP is still elevated from having a previous pheo and not recurrence. Man, you guys have been through so much. So sorry!!

oh no.. try not to worry & think bad things. I know that is easier said than done.

They could at least have spoken to you. I am hoping it doesn't mean that, 2013 needs to be your little mans lucky year, no more nasties

Don't google too much! Will be around in the morning to check in on you. Hope this hasn't freaked you out too much

Big hug, bum scratch to Flynny

Mel
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No, absolutely Not coming back. Left over from the previous one is the only acceptable answer. :)
Flynn and you just don't need another year of this kind of thing. 2013 is his year of recovery. :)

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Yup, I agree with Sharlene, 2013 is for rest and recovery and lots of fun;)

We will banish all evil spirits of illnesses away:D:D:D

Yay I am glad all my friends are here, standing guard at the gate warding off the evilness!!

I had a phone call from the vet nurse today, as my vet has gone away till next Monday but it is a public holiday tomorrow so I guess he has taken Friday off to as has most of the rest of NZ so they have a nice 4 day weekend! He had rung and got her to check his email for any news from the IMS and yes there was. I did not get a copy of it, but she said that he has told her Flynn is to start Benzapril at a half dose and continue on with Amlodipine and then we check his BP in one week to see effect. I also have to ring the pet hospital and book him in for his scan next month as we planned.

He has been on Benzapril before, I was reading back through my thread and he went started it before we swapped to Phenoxybenzamine before his adrenalectomy. He was only on it 4 days and he was quite lethargic so we took him off. Hard to tell if it was the drug causing his lethargy as he was quite unwell before his surgery and I kept commenting he was still lethargic even when we stopped it. So I will watch him like a hawk for any problems. He has left a prescription for me but I found the leftover Benzpril from six months ago so I just gave him half a dose. I will go pick up the proper prescription tomorrow, did not make it in time today as work was busy with tomorrow holiday.

So that's my news for the day, this drug is going to work!! I was quietly happy about that, I guess IMS does not think it is the pheo back or she would have recommended the phenoxybenzamine instead! Maybe, hopefully!! I guess the scan will tell.

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our house has all paws and fingers crossed for Flynny

I think that is good that the IMS doesn't think the pheo is back. Of course that was never one of our okay options anyway, so good thing she agrees with us. :) :) :)

Hopefully the drug will help without making Flynn all lethargic. He just doesn't seem to do his best when he feels like crap. Much like the rest of us. :)

Enjoy your day off!
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Hoping you are having sweet dreams. Glad you are thinking positive.

Enjoy you day off. Love free holiday they are the best

Big hug, bum scratch to Flynn

Mel
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Thanks everyone

I went and picked up the new prescription, the Benzapril is only 2.5mg daily. That is a quarter of what he was on before, so hopefully no bad side effects will appear.

He is still itching and scratching. Started a week ago, fleaed him with frontline, though I never saw any fleas on him. But it has not really settled at all. The last couple of days, he has given the occasional little cry. Like it is annoying him, but he's not able to get the right spot. Gawd, I hope he is not crying for any other reason!! He is scratching mainly on his sides, but he did have a hot spot around tail base. I have not seen any other skin irritation on him. Perhaps a little pinkish under his legs. Spoke to the vet nurse this morning when I picked up his pills, he has had this problem before quite bad in his younger years when it had to get treated with a short course Prednisone a few times. We have used sebazole shampoo in the past, but it had run out, so I picked up some more and just treated him. You have to lather him up then wrap him in a towel and sit with him for 10 mins, then rinse. He hates it. But he lies very quietly in my arms, so he had to suffer an enforced cuddle for 10 mins :D:D Nice! Hope it works.

He is shedding a lot of fur, getting his winter coat in I guess. He has been hunting about in the garden a lot looking for mice :eek: wonder if he has rubbed up against something that is bothering him. My other thought was I had changed his biscuits back to Hills GI when he had the loose poop problem, which is now sorted and his BMs are normal again. So I also wonder if the biscuits are givng him this itch problem. If it doesn't settle with the shampoo I might stop them. He only gets them for 1/4 of his daily intake, he has venison for the rest.

I am in the midst of washing all his bedding and blankies and will give the place a thorough vacuum this afternoon.

Gawd, you fix one thing and another rears its ugly head!

He is maybe drinking a little more so I am going to measure it to find out for certain. He had put on half a kilo when I weighed him at the vet this morning, last weighin was three weeks back. He does tend to fluctuate a bit though, a bit like his Mum! Plus he had a week with his Nana and Grandad probably spoiling him rotten while I was on holiday, he usually puts on weight with their tender loving care plus he steals Elle the cat's food given half the chance :D

In saying all this, he destroyed a toy this morning is looking at me hopefully for his walk up the beach which I will take him on later.

He is booked in for next UPC/BP next Thursday.

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Sending hugs and prayers to you and Flynn...

Hi Trish, you always seem to be juggling several different things at once with Flynn. I think that boy keeps you on your toes just fine. :)
Hopefully the shampoo will help. I kind of like the forced 10 minute cuddling though. :)

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Morning or evening to you ;)

Always something it seems!

Bless him, I imagine you both in a chair with him looking at you like, what the hell are we doing this for, water is not good mom

1/2 kilo made me smile, spoilt by nanny and pops! They are crafty little buggers cause they know they can get away with it when we aren't about

Hope you had a relaxing day off.

i am working with a new customer, gave me a wonderful order, her last name is------Flynn:D

So everytime I have to check on her order or talk to her, I smile because I think of you and Flynn:D:D:D:D

Funny how that works.

What do you know about cysts on kidneys? Zoe has cysts on her left kidney. I find polycystic kidney disease, autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease and multicystic dysplastic kidney disease but she only has cysts on her left kidney. I found a lot of info for humans and cats. The info I found for dogs did not seem to fit as the cysts are not bilateral.

Just thought you might know something;)

Evening

How are you? Mom and Pops ok? Anymore adventures by Flynn?

I will put some pictures of Tia up so you can see what her sweet little face looks like. Will include her brother too!

Big hug, bum scratch for Flynny

Mel
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Hi Addy, answered your question on Zoe's thread. That's cute you thinking of my boy at work!! Just don't call your client Flynnikin :D:D

Hi Mel
I just about dozed off on the couch and its only nearly 8.30 Friday night!! Was awake at 4am this morning and did not go back to sleep grrrrrr, big full moon shining in the window last night plus I went to bed early haha. So now I will try keep awake another couple of hours at least so I can sleep better tonight! He is good at the moment, still scratching a wee bit but think it is getting better. Tummy is much better, normal poops last few nights. Seems to be tolerating the Benzapril with no problems. Maybe shaking a little less, can tell when he is good as when I open the door he tears out like a mad thing barking like a crazy dog!! He still keen on his mouse hunting. Dropped him off early at Mum and Dad's today as I have to start 7.30 on a Friday :eek: Dad said they were up the beach for their daily walk by 8am!! Early birds :) so pleased Dad is still able to walk him each day. They love their time together :D Both parents behaving themselves, Mum has convinced herself the turn she had was due to either her back or a middle ear problem ;) I am happy with that, but not so convinced! Dad will have appt with urologist coming up for his renal tumour.

The pet hospital called me today, the instructions I had were to increased his meds which we have done, BP check with local vet in a week then schedule his ultrasound at pet hospital and see IMS. So they were on the ball, wanting to book him in next week. Need a bit more time to get day off plus I am a little scared about scanning him, would rather stay in state of ignorance haha. But in the end we agreed on 22nd May for the scan and see IMS. The receptionist started off trying to tell me it may not be possible to see the IMS we have been dealing with, no way I say! I will wait until she is available as she knows him well. Do not want to deal with another as last time we did that, the IMS guy looked at his scan and came in and told me his liver cancer was back and frightened the pants off me! This was without checking his history properly. He has benign nodular hyperplasia which was what he was seeing. A vet student had spent ages going through Flynn's history but did not get it right when he reported to the IMS. :eek::eek: So I am prepared to dig my toes in to make sure we get our regular IMS. I think they are scared of Flynn as he has caused so much trouble down there :eek::rolleyes:

Hope your day has started well, glad mine is nearly over and get a sleep in tomorrow, then out to lunch with the girls for a friends birthday! xx

I had a stinker of a nights sleep too!

Glad to hear Flynn seems better. Sounds like him and your dad have fun times. That wander Is probably good for both of them :)

Also pleased to hear your Mum is feeling better, let's hope it was that.
Fingers crossed its all good at his appointment

I agree it's important to see the same IMS especially in light of what you mention happened before. Continuity of care is so important!

Day has started the same as all the others but no work tomorrow and I started early so will finish early today.

Sweet dreams

Mel
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I love my job, but like today sometimes it feels like I am surrounded by stupid people :eek::eek: sometimes it would be nice not to be here especially when your mind is on something much more important, like our fur babies or family in general. Maybe today was sucky because I was so tired and headachey. Still, something has to pay the bills. Hope your day is not to tedious! I know you hate Fridays, so will be wishing it to speedy by for you and you can enter the weekend of relaxation!

Hey Trish, just a quickie, but while doing some research on veggies for dogs, I came across dome info that apparently celery can help to lower BP in dogs. Wondered if you had heard this before?

Hi Naomi
No I have not heard that before, I likes vegies if they are cooked in his dinner. He not so keen on them raw and he hates fruit, never likes apple or banana snacks. Hmmmm I might try some celery in his dinner. Thanks for the tip! x

I just uploaded a new pic of the boy, he is lying on the couch next to my chair having just eaten his breakfast, what is he trying to tell me?

OMG there has been a massacre in my house! I was sitting here on Sunday morning relaxing with a cup of tea, sun is shining and I have the doors open and a thrush flew in the house. Quite a big one. I HATE birds flying around so I screamed and ran out the house. Flynn went into action, chased it around the house... there is bird poop everywhere. I was looking through the windows and it was sitting on top of the couch where I took that photo of Flynny this morning. He stalked it and jumped up on the couch and caught it. He ran outside with his prize, but too late for me to save it. He took it to his lawn and started plucking it. Had feathers everywhere, then he got up and threw up. OMG it is so disgusting. I had grabbed the phone to call Mum and Dad when I ran out to get Dad to come get it out my house, but Flynn killed it while I on the phone and Mum hung up on me she is so annoyed as she loves birds and thinks I am very feeble for not doing more!!! OMG what a start to the day.

There is an old proverb in NZ that if a fantail bird comes in your house it means someone is going to die..... hope that does not apply to thrush birds. EEK! Off to clean up feathers and bird poop, well that makes a change!

Bird poop is the worst! What an adventure and so much for a relaxing Sunday:)
My father had Daisy out on a leash when she was a pup and she caught a baby squirrel by the tail. Luckily, Daisy let go when grandpa told her to.

Yes, bird poop is very nasty Valerie, especially when it is all over my carpet!!!

My Mum is still angry at me... this is what she just posted on a fb thread about me and the bird drama this morning.....

"If Flynn inadvertantly wandered into a lions den, she wouldn't of waffled around, that Thrush could have been saved..Im very fond of Thrushes..."

Jimmy crickets! You do manage to have some excitement around there. Lololol
What a way to spend a Sunday. I bet Flynn thought it was all great fun. :)
Has mum forgiven you yet. Hehe.
Flynn looked so relaxed earlier on the couch. I can imagine a whole conversation of what are we doing today mum. You smell good in the mornings. I might need to burp after that breakfast. Lolol.

Good luck with the poop.
Hugs
Sharlene

Figured you needed a big hug!

Parents have a special way of making you feel rubbish!

It's not your fault your scared of birds, am sure you would never have intentionally let flynn hurt it. Boyce would be exactly the same, he hates anything that moves.

Hope that s**t comes out of the carpet ;)

Tomorrow can only be better :)

No bum scratches for Flynny tonight as he has been a naughty boy and got you in trouble!

Mel
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Originally Posted by Trish

Yes, bird poop is very nasty Valerie, especially when it is all over my carpet!!!

My Mum is still angry at me... this is what she just posted on a fb thread about me and the bird drama this morning.....

"If Flynn inadvertantly wandered into a lions den, she wouldn't of waffled around, that Thrush could have been saved..Im very fond of Thrushes..."

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Wow! That fb posting would upset me too. The bird was in Flynn's territory. He did what naturally came to him and it wasn't meant to be malicious.

Did she expect you to become Mary Poppins and fly about the room protecting the bird?

Let it roll off sweetie, she'll get over it.

I will admit that the vision of Mary Poppins chasing a bird did make me laugh :)

wow! what an event filled day you have had. :D Hope all the bird poop is all clean now.

So how Did the clean up go? Is mom better now? Wow, she does like her birds. LOL

Hope you have a clean house again. :)

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Well, they say that if a bird poops on you it is good luck. Does that me if a bird poops in your house that the whole family will have good luck? :p

Naomi... I am going for a houseful of good luck, had not thought of that :D:D That's good news for the evening! :) Mum was not being mean to me, well perhaps just a little bit as she does love birds. But I am very lucky with my parents, they do so much for me especially looking after Flynn every day while I am at work. Some (my brother and sister) would say I am spoilt :D:D but hey I am not complaining!

Things went downhill for Flynn after the whole bird episode yesterday, I took him out to the dog park for a walk to make a change from the usual beach walk. He was slow, panting, then had two episodes diarrhea. Poor boy, he had vomited in the morning but I thought that was too do with having a mouthful of feathers at the time :eek::eek: He settled down over rest of day, ate well. Quiet today, but no poops that I have seen.

As luck would have it, my vet rang me tonight to check in as he has been off a few days. He wanted to run over the news from the IMS at pet hospital with me, to make sure we all on same page. I like that :) as you know how I am with plans!

He said as we had appeared to have BP control initially with Amlodipine, IMS still thinks it is most likely primary hypertension and not recurrence of his pheo. It went up last BP check to 180ish, but maybe because he was sick that day with vomiting and diarrhea. So that is why they decided to add small dose Benzapril and not the phenoxybenzamine which is used especially to control hypertension associated with pheo. He still planning to do BP on Thursday but only if Flynn is well. IF it was still up, then they will consider phenoxybenzamine and scan him to check for recurrence. BOO HISS!! :mad: STAY AWAY PHEO!! :mad:

He does not think this upset bowel/vomiting is due to renal failure as his blood are good and according to him Flynn is not officially in renal failure until BUN/creatinine/albumin start going off - which of course they will not do... power of positive thinking. He has now had proteinuria since at least January 2012 and here he is 16 months later with no rise in blood renal function. He thinks it is colitis because of the mucous that covers the stool, but if there are no flecks of blood in the mucous and as it is so episodic he does not think antibiotics are needed right now. But I need to take in sample if it is real runny for testing.

Umm what else, oh the scratching. He is going to have a good look at him on Thursday. Seems to come and go too, maybe diet related.

Honestly, I do not know what to feed him anymore
chicken - upset tummy
red meats - same
Ziwi - same
GI biscuits - good for bowel, but maybe causing itching.

I am mainly giving him the possum or venison with just a few GI biscuits, I threw out all the left over ziwi, that was an expensive little experiment but it did seem to work well for a couple of months.

I have to email vet tomorrow to give him a poop patrol update! Flynn a little quiet tonight, taken himself to bed already which is early for him. Perk up Flynn Boy!!

Sorry I write such long posts, good on you if your still reading, I do not seem to be able to keep my updates short no matter how hard I try!! Hope your all good :)

Trish and Flynn xxxx

Sorry to hear about the bird incident. What a nightmare:eek: I hope Fynn's tummy settles down, it is always so hard. I just switched Zoe's probiotic. She had been on it for two years (where does the time go) so I am hoping this news strain helps with her yeast problem and IBD. Supposedly the GP said it also helps the kidneys, not sure if that is true but, but I paid a bloody fortune for it from the vet so will try it for awhile and then I found once similar which had good reviews on line so if this works, will switch to that one, I paid $88 for a six weeks supply and I can get non prescription for $24 for like 4 months:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Have you tried a probiotic for Flynn? Zoe has never had the vomiting problems, only the stool issues.


hugs

I hope Flynn's tummy is feeling better today. ;)

Well here's hoping that the upset tummy is some leftover present from the bird (as in maybe he swallowed some feathers? not the poop) The probiotic idea is probably a good one though.

But I can't believe you threw out the Ziwi! Nooooooo! I just went and bought some for the first time yesterday, my god, the only thing I have ever seen the boys eat that fast was ham! They don't even eat chicken like that! But at $37.00 for a 1 kilo bag :eek:!!! Still, if they like it and it doesn't upset them....... :)

Wondering though, can you get kangaroo over there? I know when a lot of the elimination diets and things are done here, it is suggested to give kangaroo and sweet potato. (Yes I know, what other country eats the animal on their national crest :D) Personally I think it stinks (as in the smell) to high hell, but the boys love it and it has always been good on their tummy's, it's also unbelievably low in fat! Another suggestions is all.

As for the BP, there is no such thing as a recurrence of Pheo Flynn, so get that out of your option book RIGHT NOW! It's not even in the realm of possible so I don't want to hear any more about it. Get it? Got it? Good!

And as for long posts Trish? Pfffftt. Mine regularly involve multiple paragraphs. It's just the way I roll. :D:D

Eww poor Flynny. Birds can carry lots of germs so hopefully it was just that.

Good news re the BP long may that continue... Has he perked up?

How you doing?

Mel
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Poor Flynn! Upset tummy, running around chasing a bird, plucking bird. Sounds impossible to NOT have an upset tummy after all that.
I am rather a fan of reading the (as Namoi put it) multi paragraph posts. LOL (could be because mine always end up a bit longish too? :) )

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Blame the bird. Daisy has eaten goose poop in the past and it does not act nicely with her stomach:(

I'm glad that the vet is working with the IMS for Flynn's sake :)

Zoe too with the goose poop, it is how she had her first case of colitis.

Feel better soon Flynny

Hello

No update? How are you both doing?

Hope everything is ok and Flynn is feeling better

Mel
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He has been up and down a bit this week, itchy still. Tummy has settled somewhat but he is not back to his usual self yet.

Vet emailed me last night to ask if I thought it was stress as he thinks it unusual it comes and goes like this. He said fine to get probiotic and putting him back on Losec.

I think he has ulcers at back of his mouth, but so hard to see with him shaking his head trying to stop me looking, he is such a good boy and never nips to stop me doing anything to him.

Anyway, he is in for his BP and UPC checkup tomorrow so will update more after his visit.

Thanks for the messages lovely people :) xx