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

Checking in to see how things went at the vets today! Hope all is well.

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly muffin

Me too! Waiting for a vet update.

I tried to make it the last two days, but I'm just too sick to be there. :o My plugged ears have screwed up my balance, so I have been having periods of dizziness and nausea. My sinuses and ears are inflamed. It feels like someone has jammed a hot poker through my face. Whatever this is, hit during the weekend. I have been trying to ignore it and finish out the week, then go to break. That is no longer possible.:o I am staying home tomorrow and hoping to return on Friday, sick or not. Friday is my class's Christmas Party. My kids are tough enough without pumping them full of sugar. They will be bouncing off the walls and I can't do that to a poor sub. They will eat him/her alive! :eek: We'll see how it goes tomorrow.

I'll check back in a little later. You probably aren't home from work yet. I can only process good news at the moment, so Flynny's report better be great! xxxxx

Sounds like a sinus infection Kathy. They have a 3 day course of antibiotics now that knocks it out of you. Well worth it. I came back from France with a horrid sinus infection and that really helped me. Worth popping into a doc and getting prescription so you can enjoy the holidays. Time off! You don't want to be sick for that!

Just twiddling my thumbs and thinking about doing some online xmas shopping. LOL Waiting on the Flynn-man.

huggers,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

I'll wait for Flynny with you Sharlene. :D xxxx

Sounds like a plan Kathy. :) :)

I did end up doing some emergency online shopping as I've had a disaster with my sisters package and FedEx. Essentially that package is currently "location unknown". Ugh First the shipping was messed up by the person who shipped it (missing paperwork for customs), then the return was messed up by FedEx.

So they would have gifts, I went to Amazon.com and did an emergency quick shop, and had things shipped directly to her home in California. If and when FedEx finds my package, she'll get that too. :) :) In the meantime though, at least I know they'll have something from us. I send the nieces and nephews amazon gift cards anyway, so it wasn't too hard to add in a couple more items.

hmmm, wonder if Trish is off shopping or having a nice dinner out with friends. I hope so! oops, she might have gone back to work after Flynn's vet visit in which case, I might be in bed by the time she shows up. These time differences can really throw me sometimes. :)

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Sharlene, if I have my calculations correct, Trish is one day ahead of me and 4 hours behind.If that makes any sense. That would make it Thursday at 5:30 PM. Well, Maybe:confused: Trish did say she was dropping Flynny off at the vet, then going to work. We should be hearing from her soon, unless she went to her folks for dinner after picking up Flynn. I am wearing out, so I'm not going to be able to wait for her much longer myself.

I'm glad you were able to get some shopping in. It's too bad about your sister's packages. Thankfully, that rarely happens anymore. Xxxxx

Well, It's almost 11 PM and I need to try to get some rest because I feel like crap.:) I was hoping there would be some news before I headed to bed. I'm not able to rest or breathe very well, so I will check back in the little later when I'm up. I hope you have good news to report and a plan to tackle those dreaded itchies. xxxxxx

Hi girls, aww I missed you all and you know how much I love a good chat!! Thanks for waiting up for me though, your both very sweet!!

Now for future reference I am 6hrs behind you Sharlene and 3hrs behind Kathy... PLUS ONE DAY!! so your right Kathy it is Thursday evening 8pm here and I just got home. I did not pick Flynn up till 6pm and then it is fish n chip night with the family.

I see you are online Kathy so wanted to let you know I am here... will go do his vet report now :)

Hi Trish. I am so glad you're home. We have been waiting for you. You know mother hens and all. We can't help it! ;)I thought I'd check in one more time before I turned out my light and there you were. Fish and chips night sounds yummy. I hope you have good news to report. xxxxx

Bloods - LFT, renal, FBC - not back till tomorrow.

UPC - same, not back till tomorrow. But in house testing showed only 1+ protein down from 3+ so that has to be good!! YAY :D

BP - averages 141 over several readings throughout the day YAY :D continue on current antihypertensive regime of Amlodipine plus the ace inhibitor Benzapril to help kidneys

Nose lump which he had scratched up - Removed YAY :D he only needed local anaesthetic and Flynn handled it well, no stitches as he snipped off the warty bit then cauterised it.

Allergy Testing - blood test to be done and it gets sent to US. It covers all the potential environmental and food allergens and it is set up to cover the common ones we see in the Asia/Pacific region. If he tests positive they make up a vaccine to desensitise him and send it back to us here in NZ. It is a course of injections that you have to give in increasing doses over a few months so Mike figures I can do that part myself which I am happy to do. Cost approx. $750 for the testing and vaccine :eek::eek: Leaving this testing till New Year once he has had his short course of Prednisone

IBD - because his bowel is so good right now, we are both a little hesitant to go right onto the heavy duty Prednisone as the course would be 4-5 months. So we have that on hold at the moment, although we still want to do it to help kidneys as well. But right now we do not want to fix what ain't broke. But.....

Itchiness - flaring badly right now so we are going with a low dose Pred/antihistamine I think called Prednil, just a short course to try and get on top of it. He wants to hold off a week or so though until the nose lump heals up so the Prednisone does not interfere with wound healing there.

Arthritis - also good at the moment, he thinks the warm weather is helping but we will reassess when the colder months arrive and maybe give Pentosan then, he has dogs that only need it in winter. No need for other pain killers right now

Stumble Flynny did this morning - no sign of any neuro problems, he tested him and they walked him about and saw nothing so we just monitor for now, he thinks he could have stepped on something painful as he jumped up so fast afterwards so I am happy to go with that. He is also not too concerned about his tremours/twitches at this stage.. common in Flynnys foxy breed

Lipomas - there are a couple that have increased in size quite a lot, he is not worried about them but the size they are and position ie near joints he thinks they should come off before they interfere with Flynn's mobility. So we will look at doing that in New Year sometime.

Noticed eyes a little pink in the evenings - I have noticed this off and on for a couple of months prior to liver surgery it had disappeared but now last few nights I have noticed it again. Mike thinks likely due to allergies flaring and he is rubbing his face a lot, also considering his BP is good we can rule out hypertension causing it. Hopefully it will settle with the Pred.

We discussed supplements again - he likes the IBD support probiotic I got Flynn. He said he used it himself travelling overseas when he ate spicy food and got upset stomach, he thinks it works well and is fine for Flynn. I have to email him the exact ingredients in the fish oil I am using to make sure I am giving correct dose he wanted to check the amounts of omega 3 and 6 he said salmon oil is good but unfortunately that is not what I have!

He had emailed the IMS the report I had sent on multiple liver adenomas and the connection with adrenal hyperplasia. He is forwarding me email reply from IMS, but apparently he was not convinced and has sent some research findings back so I need to read that when it arrives. IMS had not emailed about the impressions of the surgeon on the other small liver nodules. The surgeon said to me he thought they were just "old dog" nodules and was not too concerned but we wanted his thoughts on them now we have histology report. So Mike is going to send a reminder email about that.

Mike has drawn the short straw and is on now until about 10th Jan I think he said, he said if he has a quiet day then I can bring Flynn in so we can do a lipoma map (like mole mapping) and note down exact position of them all and decide which ones need to come off. Poor Flynn another little op for him in the next couple of months. I am very glad Mike is around over the holidays, yay for us!! I am pretty happy with all of this, hopefully the lab results will be good too. Mike was happy with how he has progressed postop too. :)

Think that's it, crikey what a novel... sorry :D xx