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

that is weird that they noted the adrenal gland. They did that on one of Kiras ultra sounds too....our friend on here. Not sure she found out why they thought they saw the one removed. I would ask them about it.
Liver nodules. are you going to rescann? are his liver values good? and they werent there on last scan? hmmm think i can toss any more questions in there? lol
love and hugs to you and flynny

Hi Stormee

The nodules were there previously, during the surgery in November the surgeon noted them but he described them as "old dog lumps and bumps". I am just not sure if this scan is the same number, I presume they are as IMS said there was little change. We will rescan in three months. Have you been to diabetes forum yet??

ohhhh thats right. I remember that being mentioned. I know the readings of the ultra sounds are very detailed and noted and then the IMS will sort of weed through all the findings and justify.
I did register today on the forum. I cant post thread yet as I think my submission is still being reviewed but i can view entire site. I have poked around in there a bit reading few things. There is much there....so trying to not get overwhelmed and stay focused. My "special k" little gal. lol.....keeps me on my toes for sure that I am listening to her. She has taught me so much.

Well you are so good with cooking for her I am sure you will be able to meet any dietary needs without a problem! Plus you have your nutritionist to give advice. Hopefully she will get her bounce back once that is under control! Yes is very strange about that adrenal comment, I just hope it is not some tumour grown back there :(

Maybe it is just a typo. Keep the positive vibes going:):):):):)

Have you heard anything back yet, where you had emailed to ask them about that adrenal gland?
I know, it's probably nothing, but i'd be on pins and needles waiting. (we all know that I lack good patience skills) :)
Hope your skill set is better than mine!! LOL
It's way too far to drive to harrass them :) :)

hugs
Sharlene and Molly muffin

Hi Addy and Sharlene! :)

No, I haven't heard anything back yet, but realised this morning the IMS only works there Tues/Wed so not sure if he reads his emails the other days. So I just emailed the office and asked them to check with the radiologist and maybe he could get back to me. So will see what happens, if I have not heard anything by late this arvo I will get on the phone and ask them.

I think my patience skills, like yours, are fairly non-existent Sharlene ;) x

Hey there, I don,t do patience either. Hope it was just a typo and that they get back to you to confirm it. I see you have used the new Kitchen Aid, have you eaten the pavlova yet?

Hey! Yes, I think a few of us were at the back of the line when the patience chip was handed out :D:D The pavlova was chewy and tasted smoky is not how it's meant to be! Did you get all your malt out?

Yip all out but just in the nick of time in order for it to make the flights as it was going to Spain, Greece and Germany. I had problems with the woman in despatch today, I,ve noticed she has been dragging her heels and making the orders late, but as I,m training I,ve not said anything but today I had to do it all by myself, so we had to have some words nothing goes on late on my watch ! ;) We were also informed today that the company is being bought over and we met the new owner, he seems ok and has told me that they are investing 2 million in the production of the malts and it will be going all over the world so I should be kept really busy. :eek:

Wow ack I hate having words with anyone at work, but it has to be done so good for you!! Will she be under you once you are all trained up? Wow I hope you get a payrise for all that extra work!! Still a bit early to be asking that when you only been there a week! :D

Flynny is outside on the line eating a frozen lamb brisket, his teeth and gums have been worrying me, I also got some fluid stuff you put in their water that helps too. He clenches his teeth so hard when I try brush them it's lucky if I get a bit of a skim down the sides!

Yeah she will be under me, I am always nice and polite when I have words with people and just explain why I,m doing it and what I expect of them usually works ha ha, we,ll see I can see her becoming a problem but I,ll cross that if and when I need to.

Brushing dogs teeth can be a problem, Woody would rather have eaten me that get his teeth brushed lol. I have heard of people getting good results with I think its called tartar off. Whats up with his gums ? Has he recovered from his day in the car :)

He been pretty tired the last couple of days. His gums just a bit red, maybe an ulcer again at the back but cannot see it properly. I am just so loathe to change him from what he has been eating. But it is mainly soft, he loves bones but sometimes eats to big of a piece at once so hopefully the frozen will make him slow down and chew it properly. I got lamb brisket to keep him on the same novel protein so hope it works. Most of the dental chew thingamies have wheat in them and we are grain free, but I did find one called Whimsee that is grain free. When he chewed it there was a wee bit of blood on it so something not right in there, but I do not think it is a major and want to get him chewing a bit more. I have bought him nylabone dental floss chew toy but he won't have a bar of that, he only likes chewing the soft toys with squeakers!

Oh goodness I can,t believe how much he,s like woody, he wouldn,t have a bar of a nylabone either. I got it on my vets recommendations for his teeth I ended up giving it to a neighbours dog :eek: Poor Flynny all tired, to be expected he has been through an ordeal this week what with the long drive in the car then the stress of the scan. Good idea to keep him on the same protein, don,t want that IBD to flare up. I take it you can,t see anything untoward in his gums when you look.

They a wee bit red, will have a good look when we see Mike next. I had another look after his brisket chewing and they look whiter already so we will just have to wait and see that he tolerates the bone and hopefully I can keep giving him them!

Those teeth can be tricky. Dogs just put anything into their mouths and go to town on it. Could have even poked a gum with something.

Hope you hear something back and don't have to wait for the IMS to be in.

hugs,
Sharlene and molly muffin

AWWWW Poor Flynny, not another mouth owie . :o xxxxxx

He hasn't had a good day really, panting and then straining to poop. It was not long after he had the lamb brisket so don't think that had time to affect his tummy, maybe it was the tooth cleaning chew thing:confused: anyway on our walk he did a little poop but still straining and it was very soft but not quite what you would call diarrhea. Perky as tonight when it cooled down and hungry for his dinner so hopefully just a bad poop day!

I got an email back from the radiologist about the right adrenal:

"I did the scan on Flynn. My apologies, I was not aware that Flynn had the right adrenal gland removed and only knew of the liver lesion. Hence I assumed the wedge shaped hypoechoic organ adjacent the caudal vena cava in the cranial abdomen was the right adrenal. The structure is therefore likely to be an abdominal lymph node. The shape of the right adrenal is exactly the same as the organ observed in this study.

Once again my apologies for the error. I will speak to Mike on Tuesday about this as I will not be here on Monday"

So I am not sure if that is a good or bad thing? :eek: :confused: I am getting a few questions ready to send back to them to ask more. During his surgery in November the surgeon told me the area around the previous adrenalectomy was nice and clear, so hopefully nothing is occurring there. Blardy hell, the liver was enough to worry about without having this pop up! :(

Oh Trish, I've been following your posts and so hoping you'd be getting a final "all's clear" from the scan. And now to have yet another question mark -- and to wait until Tuesday...GRRRR!! Please give Flynnie a big pat and I hope that radiologist knows he's got a whole crew of folks who want to know what the heck is going on!

Thanks Marianne, I have just finished a lengthy email which I bet you can imagine judging by the length of my usual posts here!! I sent it to the radiologist and the IMS and will await their answers on Tuesday.

Thanks for popping in, but your meant to be on holiday!! I never did get to see Dr McDreamy on this trip ;)

My vet told me that things can move around inside of them, either when something else is large and pushing. I don't know if that would be explain something filling that area or not or how that works.

This is not working well for that patience gene to have been left out of us. grrrr

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Hey you

Thanks for your notes. I am doing ok. We took a sunflower to the field and wandered around with Boyce for a bit, remembered her when she was well and scamping around in the grass that we left the flower. She would hop through and then look up to see where we were.

How you doing? Flynn ok? Sorry you have to wait till bloody Tuesday to get any answers re the scan notes!

Mel
Xxxx

Hi Mel, he is sorta OK, it is really boiling hot today and he keeps laying out in the sun so I shoo him back inside. Tummy not right, soft skinny poops again this morning. But I think he seems better than yesterday, not panting as much.

It is full on here in town today, we had a big earthquake that flattened my city in 1931 so it was rebuilt in Art Deco style. It is a lovely pretty city and we celebrate Art Deco weekend every February. Everyone gets dressed up in the style and loads of events on. There is a steam train tooting up and down the railway line just over the road from me and vintage planes roaring around the sky, if you wanted a lie in this morning you are out of luck! There were just 5 planes flying in formation doing loop de loops with smoke out the back! Very impressive!

I don't like this anniversary day much either as it is 3 years today since the nasty earthquake in Christchurch that killed 180 people, I will never forget the terror of being in that city on that awful day when you could not trust the very ground you were walking on, it could toss you down like a rag doll and all that liquefaction rushing out the broken roads and drains was terrifying as was running through the streets as people were screaming there were gas leaks and piles of smoking rubble where buildings had fallen. :( I was a lucky one and got out with my life, but being a refugee for two days with nothing but what I was wearing was very sobering so I am remembering all those that did not make it today.

xx

Mel good to see you, that was a lovely thing to do, anniversaries are hard especially the first one.

Trish - whats all this with the Flynn boy, do you think it was the lamb brisket that may have caused his tummy and poop problems, although the heat won,t help him much

Rubbish re the poops, so frustrating as he was going well. Could he have munched anything on your walks?

I remember that on the news. Can't imagine what it must have felt like to be caught up in it. Must have been horrendous for you. Were you stuck in the city?

Hey Tracy - how was your second work week? Going ok? Just got in from your Friday night catch up? Have anything nice for tea?

That was horrible day Trish. I cannot even imagine being in that situation.
I remember watching the news reports as they came out and it was quite awful.

My niece was on the Oakland bridge that collapsed in the earthquake in San Francisco, driving off it, she said she could see it falling in her rear view mirror and cars going over. She was lucky to be just far enough in front to make it off. Sort of like some horrible thriller movie scene. It was 2 days before I could reach my family. Then my niece lost her apartment when the earthquake hit in Los Angeles some years later (every decade I think she is in an earthquake). She was luckily away in Las Vegas at the time.

I am Not a fan of earthquakes.

The art deco festival sounds like it would be alot of fun though. Do you have plans for the day?

I do hope Flynn man gets to feeling better. The heat and something has really got his tummy going, but maybe it'll pass and each day get better naturally.

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

No wasn,t out tonight, i,m going out tomorrow night as its my birthday Sunday. So i have been and painted 2 rooms in my niece,s new house, i,m shattered. Work still going good. :D

I too remember it on the news, but hadn,t realised you had been caught up in it how scary :eek:

Mel that is an absolutely wonderful way to celebrate Tia's life. That is what is important to remember, her life and her loves. :)

Tracy, do tell about your work week. :)

Sharlene and molly muffin

ohhh, a happy early birthday. You know, a birthday is not a one day celebration.. no no no my dear girl. A birthday is celebrated for at least a week, maybe more even! I am fully in favor of long birthday celebrations. :)

birthday huggers!!
Sharlene and molly muffin

That is lovely leaving that big bright flower for her Mel! Glad it was not too wet to get out for a walk with Boyce. I wish we could do more to make it easier for you but it is one of those things that only time will heal.

I dunno Tracy, he does grab things on our walks so I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. He is not getting any more brisket this week though.

Yes, I was in the city Mel. Right in the middle of it at a conference. it was lunch time so we were all in the exhibition hall and stupid me had left my bag upstairs. There was no way you could go up there, so no phone, no money, no nothing. Weren't allowed to try and get back to hotels so my bag was stuck there for nearly 3 months. So homeless I was :eek: I tell you, I have a new respect for the Salvation Army and Red Cross who swung into action so fast. I donate to them every year now, they were fantastic.

The sun was actually out today. Am sure it will be gone tomorrow as it's the weekend!!

I would have been distraught, although I wouldn't have left me bag :eek: thank goodness they were able to help you. It's nice that you give back still.

Are you off out and about to the festival today or you gonna have a slow day?

Happy birthday for Sunday Tracy x

Yeah Trish I would err on the side of caution just to be safe, poor Flynny. I would have been terrified going through that, thank god I live in Scotland and we don,t get earthquakes.

Sharlene - I may have to extend my birthday celebrations now that you said that lol . The company I work for has been bought over this week so its been rather busy getting everything ready for the change over on Monday. I put a whole shipment out all on my own this week 4018 pallets of Malt, i was nervous but got it all together and got it done in the nick of time :D

Jeepers Sharlene your poor niece, that does sound like a horror movie... My god I would have been screaming at any traffic in front to move their butts!! They are scray things for sure, you would have had to leave your bag Mel, the stairs were broken and covered in glass :eek: BUT it always comes to lunch with me now haha

OH yep, I call it "The Festival of Tracy" and shall be celebrated at least a week :D that is an awful lot of whiskey, you don't have to shift them all yourself do you? You have some person to boss around on a fork lift of something I hope!

We are off out, my niece Jade is leaving this afternoon for a holiday in Bali and Vietnam so Mum, my sister and I are heading out to the airport to wave her off. Then heading in to town to have a bit of a look around, although I think this heat might be a bit much for Mum so it might be a drive by and grab an icecream, Flynn will have to stay with Dad as it is far to hot for him to be in the care if we are in the airport.

Sounds like a good day! Have fun Trish! Good idea to leave Flynn with dad, they can keep an eye on each other. Trouble those two are!

Tracy, talk about wild timing. I'm glad you got the job before all the buying and selling went through. :) Wicked timing that was! Pffft, no malt you can't whip into a shipment! Neither rain, nor snow nor sleet shall stop the malt!!

Mel, hope you Do get sunshine for the weekend. That would be lovely and then you could get some good out door time too with Boyce.

hugs all
Sharlene and Molly muffin

Ha ha yes I do have 2 fork lift drivers that put them on the lorries for the airport, but I do have to strip down the pallets, when the deliveries comes in and make sure they are correct, then use pallet truck to move them to my department, so it can be quite a physical job lots of lifting and up and down, but when i,m trained i won,t have to do it :eek:

Oh Bali what I would do for some sun right now. :D

Oh Festival of Tracy I like that, I must celebrate for the week then :D

Yes pretty good timing on the job, but I think they already knew before I got the job and as the new company are investing 2 million into the malt side of the business then they needed someone to run that side .... Me. They also do vodka, gin, brandy, and blended whisky which i also have to ship out.

Mel we had sunshine today but it was bitterly cold, and its to rain all weekend here just for a change. :eek:

EEK, I don't do heavy labour haha... glad you have some help with that!!

Bali is lovely, but too touristy for me. I was there in the mid 90s and cannot imagine what it is like now... I have given her strict instructions about eating and drinking as there had been a spate of people dying after some dodgy cocktails were mixed with home brew type stuff :eek:

What have you got on for the weekend Sharlene? You would have been able to wear your outfit for that big party you missed at our festival, it would have fit right in! http://www.artdeconapier.com/pages/tickets2014 come on down!

Will be nice for Flynn and pops to spend some time together. How is dad doing? Has that blinking oozing stopped?

I love wandering around the festivals and markets, so hope it cools down a bit so you can take a look!

Ohhhh!!! I would so love that!!! I'm having a blast watching the art deco weekend videos!! They are so wonderful. I'd be right in the middle of everything I'm sure. hahahahaha

If you guys didn't have your island all so bloody far away, could catch a flight and be there. I'd leave today and still probably miss everything! show up two days later and wonder where my ice cream was at. hahahahaha
oh shopping would be fun! You have to check out these videos girls. I'm ready to travel!! hmm..next year Feb 21st maybe LOL

sharlene and molly muffin

They are certainly fun weekends and have really grown over the years!! You stick out like a sore thumb if you go up town in normal clothes!! Oh I just watched the first video and you can see the planes that have been zooming over my house doing tricks! Cool

Dad doing good thanks Mel, the oozing does seem to have stopped for now, a little red around edges of the dressing. I have asked me to change it myself if needed over weekend and he is to see ortho surgeon Monday. He is a bit grumpy though, just fed up with it all I think :eek: