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

Whoopee!!!! :D:D:DIt had to be all of the angels surrounding both of you that brought such a fantastic report!! Fire engine red celebration shoes, PERFECT!!! I am thrilled for you!

Love and Hugs,
Kathy and Buddy:cool:

AWESOME NEWS!!!!!!!
Buy yourself a celebratory present too :)

Trish
So happy for you and Flynn!!You must be so relieved and probably exhausted after worrying so much.So thrilled you got such great news!!Love the red shoes!:D:D:).I know you will sleep well tonight.Big hugs to you and Flynn

Oh Trish, what wonderful news!!! That's our boy, way to go Flynn!!! :cool: :D :cool: :D Brought tears to my eyes, I am so happy for you!! Will be waiting to hear the lab results and the UPC. I love the red shoes too! :) Lots of hugs from us, and a kiss on the nose for Flynny.

We are home phew!!!!

We saw a student for an hour, her head was spinning the poor thing! But she had me to fill in all of Flynny's history for her! Then we saw IMS who Flynny proceeded to give many kisses to! She gave him a look over and we decided on his blood tests, UPC (I had collected urine on the way, very handy to have a little supply of specimen jars for just these occasions and saves the dreaded cysto!) and off he went, digging his little paws into the lino so Vicky and I had to quickly leave as I cannot bear to see his "save me Mum" pleading look. :(

Anyway, we left him there 2 hours, back to speak to IMS, she said ultrasound showed no sign of the pheo, it was very clean around where the right adrenal was removed and the vena cava looked excellent!! YAY YAY! That was THE best news as I had been so worried the continued hypertension was related to recurrence.

He still has the nodules in liver, no bigger than previously noted, they have done needle biopsies again today (this is 4th time) and what they thought was a lymph node seen prior to adrenalectomy (and was biopsied then and contained normal hepatic cells which they think was part of the regeneration of liver after his liver resection) was again seen but she said surprisingly on the other side but she was convinced it was same thing but they have also rebiopsied that. So we await the histology one those.

She said his gall bladder has also moved since the surgery, it looked fine though.

Kidneys ok, a little less cortico medullary differentiation which is not unusual in older dogs.

Bowel - thickening of wall in small intestine in the jejunal section. She thinks it is most likely some form of irritable bowel disorder. She said the only way we could definitely diagnose is with biopsy and it can be hard to get that far down with endoscopy. I did not know there are a few different types of this problem. I have been googling since I got home of course, sometimes they do laparotomy to biopsy which seems very invasive. She thinks we should try dietary changes in first instance and she will speak with her colleague IMS who is expert in nutrition and get back to me on what to do. There are medications which we could try if he got worse, but she would like to try without and go down dietary path then maybe look at biopsy if deteriorating.

BP - she said they tried on a machine initially that gave reading 180, but she said it was possibly dodgy machine?!? So they went back to their old machine and it came in at 120 which she is going with :D:D So very happy with that.

She said the changes she had noted in blood vessels in his eyes previously are now resolvved which makes her think it that was just due to hypertension so pleased about that.

Plan
She will call/email in next day or two with results from biopsies of liver and lymph node and also blood tests and UPC.
She is to consult with her colleague re dietary recommendations
I have a few questions about meds and supplements that I did not ask today.

So pretty happy so far, be better once I get all the results in. '

Poor Flynny not too happy tonight, just gave couple little cries, seemed a bit stiff and I wonder if his back hurts a little after the scan.

Charged $443.59 which I think very reasonable for ultrasound, bloods, UPC, fine needle liver and lymph node biopsies, BP, consultation with IMS plus he had some sedation for the scan (they used methadone, he has not had that before!).

So thats all for now, thank you so much for coming with us today!! The car was pretty full of love, I could feel it all day long :D:D:D xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

happy dacing all day now, I am so very glad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty darn good report!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

red shoes sound awesome:D:D:D:D

wow trish that flynn sure is a trooper !!! so happy that he is doing well and i think that you also are so relieved...but i am so sorry he had to endure all that poking...wishing both of you a happy,healthy,quiet,peaceful day...we are all so happy for you two :) patty(milo)meka xoxox

I did see your GREAT news earlier just maxed out as usual and with going away its worse

So pleased for you. Will be back later

Mel
Xxxxx

yay!!! more good news. Flynn is a rockstar & so his his mama.

Yay Flynn, good reports, gotta love them.....happy dancing tonite for lots of good reports!