Alivia was recently diagnosed with Cushing's - Alivia has passed

Oh MB I am so excited to hear from you. I just was asking where you were with the chocovino:D:D:D I need about a case and a half:p:p

I am so glad Ali is doing well but sad to hear you have been sick.

I hope your ear gets better. Please take care of yourself. Two months is a long time to be sick.

BIGGEST hugs and also belly rubs to Maxwell. Please give Alivia a big kiss from me too. Whenever I think of Ali, I think of her beautiful eyes.

love and hugs

Hi Mary Beth,

So good to hear from you but not good to hear that you have been so ill! :( I so hope you are on the road to full strength again. Tell Miss Ali that we all thank her for behaving while you were down ill yourself....but now that you are feeling a bit better, that is no reason for her to start acting up again. :D I am so happy the treatments you are using on her itchy butt are working so well!

Are you by any chance on AT&T UVerse? I am, and lose connections every time it rains! I can open my Yahoo home page, a Google search, and Facebook but that is all that will open - none of the links on any of those pages will open but the pages will. :rolleyes: I spent about 2 hours on the phone with them last week and most of that time was listening to one after the other tell me what I was saying was impossible and since it couldn't happen, they couldn't fix it. :mad: Fixed it myself - again! gggrrrrrrr

Hang in there and please take care of yourself. Let us hear from you when you can and know you and Ali are often in our thoughts!
Hugs,
Leslie and the gang

Thanks, Addy! From what I have been reading, you deserve a case or two of Chocovine! Wish I could share some with you! I feel like I have missed out on most of the summer. And, if I do say so myself, Ali does have incredible soulful eyes.

Leslie, I think there is a lot of truth in what you've said. Alivia and Maxwell seem to sense when I am not feeling well and are both on their very best behavior. They are both great snugglers! She better not act up now! :eek:

I have Verizon internet. It goes out constantly - like every few minutes sometimes! Usually, I can get it back on if I go upstairs and shut the modem off for a while and then wait till it restarts. That is always after I have already lost whatever I was working on. Verizon has been to my house 3 times without correcting the problem. Since I haven't been feeling well, the last thing I've wanted to do is deal with service appointments. I also have Verizon phone service and there is a ton of static in the line. I am sure it is related but guess what? You have to have TWO separate service techs! After being so sick for so long, I am really behind on everything, so dealing with that has kind of been on the bottom of the list...did I mention my cable TV box blew up, my furnace died (good thing it is summer) and the plaster on my third floor is falling?! When it rains, it pours.

Well, I think Alivia is having a bit of a setback. She had been doing amazingly well for so long that I think I have been in denial for a few weeks. She seems to be showing signs of cushings again - increased thirst, hunger and a bit of a pot belly. She had an area of pyoderma a few weeks ago that cleared up and even grew fur back over it. However, she now has three more areas of pyoderma - each about two inches in diameter, red and the fur has completely fallen out. The strange thing is besides these areas, her fur is thicker and shinier than it has ever been. Her butt is swollen and red and she's been itching like crazy, again, too. I had her off Cosequin for awhile, but re-started it several weeks ago and I am now wondering if the itchy skin issues could be an allergic reaction to something in the Cosequin - Brewer's yeast, maybe? Whether it is only a coincidence, she was better when she was not taking the Cosequin. So, stopping the Cosequin and calling the vet...I'm sure he's missed seeing her!

I just posted a picture of her skin issue.

I looked at the photos but not sure what to make of them. I am so sorry to hear Alivia is having issues. It seems we go along and something always pops up with our pups.:(:( Maybe it is the Brewers yeast.:confused::confused: Here in Wisconsin they said we are having the worst allergy year in history with no let up in sight. I wondered if that contributed to Zoe's allergy eyes.

I hope Ali gets better soon. You are so good at helping her get well, I know you will figure this out too:):):)

I thought my hubby was cute but a bit over the top. I have to remind him Zoe is a dog not a child as much as we tend to treat her like one. He is worse than me about that:):):):) She is his little girl and he really loves to cuddle with her.

Have a good week, MB.

Hi Mary Beth,

Sorry to hear that Ali is having some problems. :( Please let us know what the vet says...other than, "Well, where have you been, Miss Alivia?" :D

How have you been feeling?

Hugs,
Leslie and the gang

Hi, Addy and Leslie.

Only the first picture I posted is her skin issue this time around (the other ones were from last year!). Ali's vet is booked pretty solid until the 5th. He is always great about fitting her in but I emailed him pictures of her skin and he is calling in the same antibiotic she had last time. I am actually happy about that because it was right after she was on that the last time that all her Cushing's symptoms disappeared. So, she can get started on the medication right away and she will see the vet on the 5th...along with Maxwell who is due for his annual exam. Hopefully, by then she will be much improved.

Leslie, you are right - I've been pretty lucky about not having many vet visits recently! And, Miss Alivia DID wait until I was feeling better, at least! My ear infection is gone, they removed the tube and I have started back on my injections so I should be getting better each day. Thanks for asking!

yay, glad to hear you are feeling better. Now just have to get the little miss all fixed up to. Hopefully the meds will do that!

hugs,
Sharlene

Some of you are aware of the difficulty I have getting pills into Alivia. She is so smart she can detect them in ANYTHING - we've been through Pill Pockets, cheese, homemade meatballs and anything else you can stick a pill in. She finds them in ANYTHING and will absolutely refuse it. I have resorted to prying her mouth open and getting the pill in, then holding it shut till she swallows and then checking to make sure it's gone...only to step on it later in another room and then having no clue what day that pill was from. :confused:

So, this time in an effort to outsmart Alivia, I asked the vet to call in her antibiotic in a liquid suspension and then had the pharmacist add a flavor. They gave me a syringe to squirt the tasty liquid into Ali's mouth - problem solved! Or, so I thought. I told Ali it was a "treat" and I squirted a teaspoon in. It was no sooner in her mouth when she BLEW it right back out!! :eek: You cannot believe how far and wide one teaspoon of pink berry flavored liquid can fly! :D

I hate to laugh.. but, I am imagining a toddler stomping their feet & turning up their nose. Except in the doggie version.
Good luck.. I know that has to be so difficult.