Zoe By My Side- Our Journey with Cushings

Leaves! The bane of my world right now! I have not one tree on my lot other than an immature Banaba (Crepe Myrtle) but my lot is covered in leaves! For a while I could step between the leaves to clean the yard but not now! Even raking yesterday, I woke up with the yard looking like it didn't even get touched! :rolleyes: The fun comes in when I'm poop scooping 'cause of two trees - the Sweet Gum whose leaves are the same color as Squirt's poop and the Hackberry whose leaves darken and curl, looking just like Soph's poop! So I often find I am deliberately stepping in poop to scoop a leaf! :eek::p Since I miss as often as I find, raking is loads of fun, too....thank goodness for long rubber gloves! :p

Addy:
Are you bracing for the first snow of the season? Hope you got to those peonies. How has Zoe been doing? Hope you two had a good weekend together. Blessings
Patti

it is sticking to the grass and my car:eek::eek: I will have to clean off my car when I leave work:mad::mad:

This is way too soon just on the heels of changing off daylight saving time!!!!

Plus, I think hubby forgot how to use Zoe's walking harness aid:eek::eek:

Zoe's poos have been fine with the metro every other day but she is panting more. It used to be that she panted when her IBD bothered her but maybe she is warm because of all this new thick hair, she is not used to having it.

Also, another problem came up, she is taking longer to eat her food so her Vetoryl is in the food longer and kind of melting. I noticed this last night so now I have to put it in a small dish with a small amount of food which works fine but she is scheduled for a stim Thursday and I am concerned she has not been getting the correct dose at night because of the melting Vetoryl capsuls:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Always something!:):):o:rolleyes:

Hi Addy,
I wait for Trixie to finish her food and then I hand feed her one blob of food with the capsules...would this work for Zoe?
Then you don't have to worry that the pills are starting to melt.

So you are getting snow! :D They say snow showers here for tomorrow coming in with the very cold air. Today is fairly mild. Takes forever for anything to stick on the streets here too many hot pipes running under the pavement.
Hope you don't get too much this early in the season. ;)

Barbara

Hi Barbara,
I was hand feeding her but then I have to give her more meat=protein and with potatoes and even the turkey, she was starting to spit out the pill and a few times Koko almost ate it -so I started putting it back in her food which used to not be a problem because she inhaled it in 30 seconds. Now she is taking longer and is very messy when she eats. This morning I fed her and then saved a bit on a small plate and dropped the pill on top and she ate it right away without spitting it out.
She never used to spit pills out. She is starting to do that more and more. I just am worried as I don’t know how this all may affect her stim.

The snow stopped:D:D

Would you feel better if you postponed the stim for another week? Just to be sure she is getting the right dose or do you want to get this over and done with?

I hate it when it's 50/50 and hard to tell what is the best thing to do. I'd rather a good solid 80% one way or the other at lease. LOL

YUK sticking to the car!! :( Cry me some crocodile tears over that.

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Hi Sharlene,

I would have to postpone for more than that, I cant take off next week and I have to book 3 weeks ahead. I did not want to put it off that long with her tremors. I don't know what to do. I even cut her dose down at night for five days the end of October because I worried maybe she was a bit too low. Hard to gage sometimes.

Maybe I better keep this appointment but know the results could be off. I'm not sure how many times the pills started melting.

Oh drat, the tremors are continuing even though you've changed the meta to every other day?

3 weeks, yes I can see that wouldn't actually work out if the tremors are continuing. Is she doing the tramadol every other day or as needed? Noticed that Trish said that Flynns twitching decreased or stopped once the tramadol was stopped. I know that isn't an option with Zoe, but wondered if it could have an affect on her, like tremors. Something to maybe think about.

yea, if you can't get off next week, then it would be way too long for any kind of peace of mind. It is and can be very frustrating trying to know what is best to try or do at any given moment. You really have done so wonderfully though with Zoe and knowing what will work best with her. Trial phases are Not a bad thing as you have shown time and again. It is sometimes the only way to really figure things out. Even as long as these vets have treated some pups, they still don't live with them and know them in that every day way.

hugs Addy
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Addy,
Have you tried sealing the pill in a small piece of pill pocket, then putting into a small amount of her food. Once she's downed that, giving her the rest. Sealing the pill would keep it from dissolving much longer. Just a thought......

Buddy had head tremors. They made me feel helpless until we all figured out what was causing them. Thinking of you my dear and sending hugs and Rosie slurps.:D. Xxxx

It is so hard right now, most of September and October are a blur, I was eating in the car while driving from the hospital to work, I couldn't take care of Zoe like I usually do, my heart was breaking for my mom and my little girl whom needed me but I could not be there for her.

Zoe was growing thick, long hair, even her tail started growing hair, it was amazing how she looked no one could believe my Zoe but her back legs were getting stiffer and stiffer. I was alternating the tramadol after cutting back completely on it. She would only get a small nightly dsoe 2-3 times a week. Then her bad front leg started trembling terribly. Mostly after dinner, she would lie down for a while and then when she would get up her bad front leg would tremble so hard her head would shake from it.

Then her head started trembling without her front leg shaking, mostly at night when I would get home from work. One night she fell to her side, I thought she had had a seizure. I could not watch her closely so I was not sure what exactly happened. I cut her nightly vetoryl dose in half for five nights, she seemed better. I put her back on the full dose and then things slowly started getting bad again. With the time change, she went a full week with no tramadol, gave her only melatonin, she still had the head tremors and the front leg shaking.

I cut back the metronidazole and now she is panting more, poos are good and I dont see the head tremors as much but that front legs still shakes badly on and off, usually when she first wakes up from sleeping. So I gave her tramadol for the last two nights which helped her front leg.

She is not drinking much water, she waited at the door this morning for her chicken walk, she is much slower at eating but that could be her legs, I just raised her bowl again, she is standing better when eating but still did not inhale dinner tonight. Koko finishes long before she does, they used to finish at the same time. She sleep all night, no accidents, no issues, her reverse Mohegan is filling in, you cant believe the new growth on her tail.

If her cortisol is sky high why would she be growing hair on her tail and why is she not at the water bowl first thing in the morning. I always knew her cortisol was higher because she would get a drink first thing in the morning. So I thought maybe she has drifted too low for her.

Or it could be the spot on her liver is cancer and that is causing these problems.


Maybe I can call and see if I could get in next week. I dont want to take her the week of Thanksgiving, it will be a mess there unless it was Monday.

So, I cant know what to do for Zoe until I know more about where she is which means anlother round of doctor consults, listening to opinions, researching and making a decision. It has to start somewhere and I dont know how much time I have before everything blows up again with mom.

It is just hard right now.