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

Hope you are having a good time on your holidays. It does sound like it's been a full and busy one at times, with great relax moments in between. The best kind.

Hope that Flynn is behaving himself.

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

Hey everyone

It's no thread hijack when we're talking about allergies and you all know you are welcome here anytime to talk about anything!! :D

Ahhh no Koko doing the paw nibbling, Flynn is often doing that. I have never heard of Zuke's, darn big conglomerates fiddling about with their snacks! Don't fix whats not broke you fools! There, I am sure that will make them change it back :D:D I do not give him treats unless they fit in with his novel protein on the day, so now it is venison so he can have these ones which are grain free too http://ziwipeak.co.nz/ziwipeak-good-...ts-dog-reward/ I hope your letter helped Leslie!! Nestle are buggers for taking over, they introduced all that baby formula in Africa when those babies especially need all the nutrients from breast milk if possible.

Hey Tracy and Sharlene - yes it has been a good week off, lots of eating out or in :D Yesterday got busy in the morning, had a damn flat tyre so had to take that to get fixed, couldn't believe it was only $15 YAY!! There was a screw stuck in it. Hair do done, so that was nice to sit in the salon for couple of hours. Flynny had a walk through town with me while they fixed the tyre, there was a new little farmers market in one of the streets (not the one he got thrown out of!) so we got a couple of things there. Kids have always loved him, so he patiently stood while a couple came up and asked to pat him, he even gave them a wee lick!

I am getting the weekend cleaning done today, I am going to stay with Dad the next week or so while Mum is away so going around there later this arvo.

He is still itching, although not so much. He was given Loratidine which is not meant to be sedating. But boy the first day, he just lazed around. Took him for a walk, not much energy either. He has had days like this, but it was more pronounced. Stopped the med and he perked up the next day and is back to being good. He is fully on the venison, tests on Tuesday for bloods, UPC etc. Fingers crossed the ALP/ALT have come back down. Tracy, his scan is a week tomorrow... 5th May. xx

Hi Trish, been catching up on your thread, it does sound like alleriges to me but whatever it is I hope the meds help stop the itching/scratching.

P&G caused my Snuggles the pancreatitis and almost killed him.. I would run far from any company they take over. My boys have been on Innova which was human consumption standard, for most of their lives, then P&G bought it..major recall, I had to switch their food fast and Snuggles fell deathly ill from the quick diet switch, 106 fever, blood values through the roof, hospitalized for 4 days. Whenever I think of this I get so angry they did this to my baby.

If anyone is interested..here is a good site I get alerts from
http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recalls/
I also get alerts from the FDA Pet Food recall site.

Prayers going up that the ALP/ALT have come back down.
I hope you are having a wonderful weekend and Flynn feels better very very quickly.

Ohhh forgot to say, the house in front of me has finally had new people move in over the weekend. Nice young couple BUT they have two cats and six kittens!! :eek::eek: There house is so not good for animals, it is not fenced and the road outside is quite busy. My house is fenced with a strong sturdy gate, but it has bars and cats get through it easily. The kittens are only about 4 weeks old, cute balls of fluff. They are going to find homes for them. Gawd, I hope they do not get outside and come visiting as Flynn as a terrier has natural inclination to chase small furry animals and he WILL chase them. He has never actually caught a cat and I do not want to see it happen now. :eek::eek: But I have warned them to keep a close eye on them. They said the two bigger cats have grown up around dogs and know to keep away from them. So hope that is true!! Cats here in NZ are not kept inside, I have never heard of that ever here. I always think that is so bizarre when I read things like that but I guess other countries do it differently and lock them up. Our cats have always been able to come and go and live a fun catworthy life :D:D

Hi Vicki

Thanks for this, it is a good website, I have used that a lot checking on various things!! Ziwipeak that I am feeding Flynn is on there and gets a 5 star rating! Poor Snuggles, glad he survived that one... he is such a strong boy!

Weekend going well, nice and sunny and warm. Must getting the washing done to hang out!

5 stars is awesome! I feed my boys now Fromm and they give it 5 stars too,
I love that site it is very informative.

Glad your weekend is going well :)
Hugs to sweet lovable Flynn!

Fromm is what I feed my 2 cats, just wonderful food, and yes, they are kept inside! :o:) My one cat, Alex the bad cat, will walk on a leash outside. I take both my dog, Sampson, and Alex out for a walk every day.

Oh how cute, love to see a pic of Alex the cat and Sampson going for a walk Lori!! I have tried to train Mum's Siamese to go walking on a leash, but she won't have a bar of it! She has a route around the neighbourhood, she goes and visits an old guy down the road most days. He and his wife had Siamese, but the wife died a year or so back and he is not getting any more cats as his health is not good so it is nice Elle goes and spreads the love with him. Elle does have a curfew, she is not allowed out after dark.

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Originally Posted by Squirt's Mom

And btw I wrote to Nestle and told them to please stay out of the dog food and treat business...that they did real good with chocolate so be satisfied and leave our dogs alone! :p

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Hahahhaa, love this! I thought it was P&G that bought them, but not surprised it would be Nestle either. I remember when Natural Balance was acquired too. It took a huge step down, which was a bummer, since it used to be a good food.

I love dogfoodadvisor too. Food is such a difficult subject. I feel that there are so few companies I can actually trust. I feed The Honest Kitchen or home cook.

I do like the treats from Nature's Variety though. They make these freeze dried ones that have just one ingredient (a meat), and they are super low calorie.

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Originally Posted by Harley PoMMom

Fromm is what I feed my 2 cats, just wonderful food, and yes, they are kept inside! :o:) My one cat, Alex the bad cat, will walk on a leash outside. I take both my dog, Sampson, and Alex out for a walk every day.

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How adorable! Would love to see that :)

Hey you

It will be Tuesday when you wake up and that means one thing Flynns bloods. Fingers, toes, eyes, paws and everything else I can cross for good numbers for him.


C'mon Flynn you can do it. Right by your side Trish :)

Prayers going up for good results on Flynn's tests!

thinking of you:):):)

paws up Flynny

Hoping for good numbers for Flynn on Tuesday's tests!! Keeping my fingers crossed for Flynny!!
Of course cats here in the city are indoor cats. There is a guy who sometimes brings a cat to Central Park on a leash...he attracts a great deal of attention from people and dogs alike! :D

Barbara

Okay, when will we know results???? huh huh huh LOL

I hope he did good on the tests! Come on Flynn!!!

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

Thanks all, no results yet

Checking in real quick to let you know that all fingers, paws and stubs are crossed here for good results. Thinking of you guys. Go Flynn go!!

Hugs from me and Jasper

Quick post in my lunch break, mike txt results similar to january one which very happy about, don't have actual numbers yet but he going to email them and call tonight to discuss. But he said upc 0.77!! Yay big drop back from the 2.5 on prednisone. Will post more later when i get the lft's. So tina that upc can fluctuate heaps with other things going on, gotta dash will catch up on yr threads later, sorry for txt talk post! X

LOL Trish. That is excellent news about the UPC. Can't wait to see what the other results show. Remember it can take awhile for liver numbers to come down after pred or anything really. I think the UPC is the tell tale of what is going on with Flynn and he must be doing pretty good to get that result!

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

Great start! Hoping for more good news.

Yay! That's my Flynny boy! Great news Trish! Xxxxx

Hi - thanks everyone... well I have had the chat with Mike.

ALP/ALT have come down but not back to baseline where we were before Prednisone.

ALP was 4200ish, on Pred now back to 2293, BUT back in Feb pre Pred it was 1444. (0-185)

ALT was close to 500 on pred now 406 but was approx. 250 in Feb. (0-75) AST was marginally high on pred, now back within normal limits. Bilirubin still a normal 1, which it has always been.

We would like to think ALP/ALT are still coming back down and it could be. But Mike thinks liver nodules playing up again could be a possibility but we need to wait till ultrasound to confirm. We both have fingers crossed it is still coming back down though and I have read it can sometimes take months. But Mike said as it was only short course and relatively low dose it should be pretty much back down by now. He had been OFF the prednisone for 27 days when bloods were done this week.

Calcium a little high, that can also be indicator for tumour :mad: 3.07 (2.20-3).

Only other thing of note is amylase 1020 (30-1020) so right on the highest number possible for normal and also lipase up 692 (13-200). He said steroids can also impact those values, Flynn was a little nauseous a while back, vomited once but good now. I wondered about pancreatitis, he said not likely :confused:

Blood count, UPCR good. :D

Damn those liver tests!! So we are happy he is going for the scan on Monday which will answer our questions about how stable his liver nodules are. Mike is off for a few days till next week but I have to txt him results on Monday.

Renee, he just txt me to remind me to ask IMS about the Apoquel, he is wondering if it helps with allergies could it also possibly help his IBD which appears to be also linked to allergy also.

I have been coming and going all week, sleeping over at Dad's as Mum is away and so busy at work with last week off. Sometimes it does not pay to have a holiday as you suffer coming back as no-one does the work while I am away!:mad: But I did get to cuddle a wee baby tonight, 3 days old born to one of my work colleagues! Toby is his name which also made me thing of you Renee lol! x

So glad most of these values are coming down, Trish! I pray the trend continues til they are much closer to the range we want to see.

Thanks Leslie, me too!! Righto I am off to bed, one more day of work to get through! Then weekend time!!! xxcx

Trish I am so happy to see that Flynn's values are coming down! How wonderful for you and him! I pray the improvement continues.

Hugs to your sweet boy!

Trish, I just think your vet sounds so great!! Those numbers coming down are very good and I hope they continue.

I am very interested to see if the IMS gives the go ahead on trying the apoquel. It would be wonderful if the meds could help with the external allergies, but also with the gastro stuff too.

Yay go Flynn great the numbers are coming down. So now we hold our breath (not literally) till Monday.

I was getting worried as you took ages to post :eek:

Hi Trish,
Numbers are heading in the right direction--down! :D So for the most part it's good positive news...I know you show the liver numbers are higher than Feb. but they are down half from the pred numbers .so that all seems like good news.
Hoping the liver numbers keep dropping!! How is Flynn doing lately, less itchy I hope! :D

Barbara

Well that isn't so bad. They Are coming down, so they might come down even more. I know the scary thing is that Flynn has this history with the tricky liver nodules and so anything liver related sends all the warning flags straight up the flag pole and a little voice inside starts screaming ALERT, ALERT!

Based on that, good thing that ultrasound is scheduled for Monday or you are not going to be happy camper. You need to see the results, hear the IMS's thoughts and opinions and then deal with whatever the verdict is. It will probably be okay, but you have to see it to be sure.

Awww, a 3 day old baby!! precious! Hope your mom is having a lovely day. Sounds very busy running back and forth and to work and back to do it all over again. Yowser. When does mom come back? hahaha

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

I think it is pretty darn good news, especially the UPC- yeah, you go Flynn:):):):):):):) Down is a good direction!!!!!

I know what you mean about taking off work, the pain of catch up is awful when no one does your work.

Have a good weekend, it has already started for you.:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Hi all
Yep down is good, but further would be better. So love to see them less than February!

I have given Flynn more of the antihistamines. He does have a couple of hot spots on his tail and sides which is most likely due to flea allergy. Darn things, but hopefully now we are heading into winter the cold weather will kill them off. First frost of the season today, and a gorgeous sunny day now. I just came back home and have all the pet blankets to put through the wash from both houses. I will give it another really good vacuum around at Mum and Dads and tomorrow will let off a flea bomb! That should get any residual little suckers. He is itching less though.

Sharlene, your right my alert radar is ticking furiously over the liver issues so I hope the scan can settle down those worries. Mum gets back next Saturday, she just called and is bored down there and looking forward to coming home. They are looking after my Aunt and Uncle's dog a little JRT called Dolly :D

Renee, it will be interesting to hear what IMS has to say about the apoquel. I hope we can use it. I am going to email him Flynn's spreadsheet with all his test results and also a condensed history with my questions either today or tomorrow so we are all prepared for our appointment on Monday.

I hope you have a good weekend and Flynn's hot spot aren't too much of a bother to him. A good cold snap will hopefully get rid of those pesky fleas. Man I don't like those things. They are awful in the warmer areas, like when I lived in Hawaii and Texas. Just hard to get rid of, we never seem to get cold enough to really get rid of them completely.

Sounds like you will be as prepared as it is possible to be with the spreadsheet and questions sent off.

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Hi Trish,
Thanks for your posts on our thread. I have an update, will get it in as soon as I can. She ran all his labs again (in house of course) and thankfully nothing glaring there.

I am beyond thrilled with Flynn's latest UPC!! What a relief! And it gives me a little glimmer of hope even though Jasper's issues are different. Happy about the other results going down also. Those liver values are heading in the right direction and I bet they will continue to come down further with time. It seems like it takes a long time to see changes there.

It will be a relief to get his scan out of the way. It is on Monday, right? Not too long now. How are the allergies doing today? I sure hope you can get the itching under control.

Hugs,
Tina and Jasper xo

Poor Flynny:o those dang fleas! :eek: xxxxx

Hi girls! Just been doing a few bits of weekend tidying!!

Tina, I do have to pop out quickly but will be back in half an hr so hoping to read the Jasper update then, hope he is better today! x

Hay you missed you again ! You seem a bit snowed under there with looking after dad, work and worrying about Flynn. Oh your mum is looking after a JRT, I love the name Dolly. I hope your dad is behaving himself.

I am off tomorrow it's the May Day here so i will be around all day to focus my "no nasties on scan" thoughts to Flynn and you. I hope you can get some sleep yeah I know it will be difficult with your mind working overtime but do try :)

Oh my gosh Trish, I fell asleep on the couch with the ipad!!! :o :rolleyes:

Darn, was looking forward to chatting for a bit, sorry about that! Ok, so I will be focusing my positive thoughts all evening and night tonight my time. Yes, I hope you are able to get some sleep ahead of that lengthy drive.

All the best for Flynn with the appt and scan. I am still thinking about the UPC result and hope it will set the trend for more good things to come. Drive safe and I will be watching for updates.

Big hugs,
Tina and Jasper xo

Darn, now I have missed you guys lol I was on the couch watching the final of masterchef! Think I am ready for the morning, not really tired at all yet. Flynn is all quiet tonight, not wanting to do much of anything but is eating fine, had a good walk this afternoon too. Sometimes I do think that antihistamine sedates him a bit, even though its not meant to :confused: thanks for the well wishes tomorrow. I will do an update after I see IMS before I drive home. x

Trish, you are back! So glad I didn't sign off quite yet. :) What time is his appt and scan??