Molly, 13 yr, shih tzu - lhasa aspo - Molly has passed

Just catching up and sorry to hear you have so much on your plate at the moment. I hope you have a lovely evening at the movies, and that everything goes well with hubby's surgery next week.

I've not had any experience of vets taking BP, but have to say I'm surprised to hear that they don't all have BP monitors. It sounds like the best course of action is to keep your vet because she knows Molly's history, then go elsewhere for the BP readings.

yep, one of those fancy dancy theaters is exactly what we went to and the first thing I did was order a fancy drink with umbrella and puree and rum in it. Then was ready to settle in for the movie.

Looks like until I can get molly at least sort of stabilized I'll be going to the IMS. There are just too many variables currently to add anything else to the mix. It isn't going to be easy, as my ability to keep taking time of work ends with molly's next visit. I've been taking vacation time. Plus the expense is more at the IMS, but I don't know of any other option to get all this straightened out. So, for now, saving every penny possible for molly's appointments and hoping we can get this figured out.
As my husband said, this isn't sustainable to being paying out thousands every month.
Still nothing on my brother in law, so maybe they didn't do the cat scan today. I should hear something over night from my sister though. The 3 hour time difference means I'm often in bed when she emails.

Thanks for hanging in there with us gals.

hugs

Just wanted to drop in and surround you with love and healing energy. You most certainly have your hands full my dear.:o

Regarding Molly's bills...I can sympathize totally with your situation. I I was still paying off Buddy's vet bills long after he flew free. I managed without asking for any help, but it was difficult there for a while. The vets can pretty much charge whatever they want and we're stuck.

Please let Daniel know that he's family too. He has now been surrounded by a flock of busybody angels who will make sure he gets the best care possible. Sending tons of healing energy his way.

Of course, we are always here for you too Sharlene.:p

Hugs to all of you!!!!

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He goes in on the 18th. Surgery is on the 19th and 20th. (it's a double hernia so they do one side each day) He's doing it under a local instead of general anesthesia. I feel nauseous just thinking about it.

The hospital said today he will be in till Monday the 24th. So, it's a fairly long stay. 6 nights. Everyone says they have good results though with healing and want to make sure there are no complications going forward. He'll have mentors that are going through the same thing before he goes in and then he will mentor others until his release. Interesting eh. They are up on their feet 4 hours after surgery. My neighbors dad had his hernia surgery at the same hospital and said it's more like a 5 star resort, with their entire focus being on the patients well being and whole health recovery. This should be interesting.

Molly is still doing good. I have a couple things that have to be worked out in that I can't keep going to the IMS for the BP readings every week or other week. It's too far and I'm running out of vacation to take doing all these tests and being there all the time. My vet however, does not have a BP machine. *sigh*

I can find another vet, but none of the other vets do boarding and after some not so great experience with boarding her at other places, the vets is the only one I currently trust. My current vet though is the only one who does dog boarding and doggie day care when needed.
So, what to do about all this. Do I see if I just get a vet to do the BP readings and stick with my current vet which is what I'd like to do? Or do I have to switch because my vet doesn't have a BP machine and then what do I do about boarding.

I feel like I'm stuck in a hard place with no good solutions. I've been trying to figure this out since September, with no real answers.

I need to make sure my vet can do the ACTH and send to the lab that the IMS wants used also. IDEXX. She wants consistency with the testing since molly is not symptomatic and harder to determine what is happening without the tests being done in the same lab so we can see the drops or increases without any other factors (lab factors). I'm pretty sure that my vet can send to IDEXX lab, but need to verify. Also that she will order the trilostane compounded from same place my IMS orders it.

My head hurts just thinking about it.

hugs all
Sharlene and molly muffin

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Hi Sharlene I am still catching up on your thread. My prayers for Daniel on his surgery so sorry he has to go through this.

I am not fully caught up with Molly yet but if you recall I bought a vet bp machine for Snuggles months ago due to his pheo, it works great and comes with 3 sized cuffs infant child and adult and it is a vet bp machine, so gives the HR BP and MAP. Most are very expensive but this one was reasonable about 100.00 or maybe less I don't recall exactly. If you are interested I can find where I purchased it, I don't recall atm..will be reading the rest of Mollys posts HUGS and prayers!

finished catching up and so so sorry to hear about Molly's eyesight, renal issues and high bp. You have so much to deal with. HUGS! I hope and prayer you get these issues resolved and stabilized. praying hard!

this is thr bp monitor I bought and use for Snuggles

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I spoke too soon, that one doesn't ship to Canada. I'll look for one on amazon.ca. Sometimes I can find amazon.com that ships to canada but for a lot of things they won't ship outside the U.S. *sigh*

Song gave me a different link, but not sure if it will ship to Canada or not.

hugs

Hmmmmmm..... Doesn't your sister live in California? Maybe she'd order one to be shipped to her, then she could mail it to you.:confused:

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Doesn't your sister live in California? Maybe she'd order one to be shipped to her, then she could mail it to you

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Maybe. It's a thought.

Have you tried eBay as some sellers there will ship internationally. Argh - medical stuff seems particularly difficult to buy cross border.