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

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Bloods - LFT, renal, FBC - not back till tomorrow.

UPC - same, not back till tomorrow. But in house testing showed only 1+ protein down from 3+ so that has to be good!! YAY

BP - averages 141 over several readings throughout the day YAY continue on current antihypertensive regime of Amlodipine plus the ace inhibitor Benzapril to help kidneys

Nose lump which he had scratched up - Removed YAY he only needed local anaesthetic and Flynn handled it well, no stitches as he snipped off the warty bit then cauterised it.

Allergy Testing - blood test to be done and it gets sent to US. It covers all the potential environmental and food allergens and it is set up to cover the common ones we see in the Asia/Pacific region. If he tests positive they make up a vaccine to desensitise him and send it back to us here in NZ. It is a course of injections that you have to give in increasing doses over a few months so Mike figures I can do that part myself which I am happy to do. Cost approx. $750 for the testing and vaccine Leaving this testing till New Year once he has had his short course of Prednisone

IBD - because his bowel is so good right now, we are both a little hesitant to go right onto the heavy duty Prednisone as the course would be 4-5 months. So we have that on hold at the moment, although we still want to do it to help kidneys as well. But right now we do not want to fix what ain't broke. But.....

Itchiness - flaring badly right now so we are going with a low dose Pred/antihistamine I think called Prednil, just a short course to try and get on top of it. He wants to hold off a week or so though until the nose lump heals up so the Prednisone does not interfere with wound healing there.

Arthritis - also good at the moment, he thinks the warm weather is helping but we will reassess when the colder months arrive and maybe give Pentosan then, he has dogs that only need it in winter. No need for other pain killers right now

Stumble Flynny did this morning - no sign of any neuro problems, he tested him and they walked him about and saw nothing so we just monitor for now, he thinks he could have stepped on something painful as he jumped up so fast afterwards so I am happy to go with that. He is also not too concerned about his tremours/twitches at this stage.. common in Flynnys foxy breed

Lipomas - there are a couple that have increased in size quite a lot, he is not worried about them but the size they are and position ie near joints he thinks they should come off before they interfere with Flynn's mobility. So we will look at doing that in New Year sometime.

Noticed eyes a little pink in the evenings - I have noticed this off and on for a couple of months prior to liver surgery it had disappeared but now last few nights I have noticed it again. Mike thinks likely due to allergies flaring and he is rubbing his face a lot, also considering his BP is good we can rule out hypertension causing it. Hopefully it will settle with the Pred.

We discussed supplements again - he likes the IBD support probiotic I got Flynn. He said he used it himself travelling overseas when he ate spicy food and got upset stomach, he thinks it works well and is fine for Flynn. I have to email him the exact ingredients in the fish oil I am using to make sure I am giving correct dose he wanted to check the amounts of omega 3 and 6 he said salmon oil is good but unfortunately that is not what I have!

He had emailed the IMS the report I had sent on multiple liver adenomas and the connection with adrenal hyperplasia. He is forwarding me email reply from IMS, but apparently he was not convinced and has sent some research findings back so I need to read that when it arrives. IMS had not emailed about the impressions of the surgeon on the other small liver nodules. The surgeon said to me he thought they were just "old dog" nodules and was not too concerned but we wanted his thoughts on them now we have histology report. So Mike is going to send a reminder email about that.

Mike has drawn the short straw and is on now until about 10th Jan I think he said, he said if he has a quiet day then I can bring Flynn in so we can do a lipoma map (like mole mapping) and note down exact position of them all and decide which ones need to come off. Poor Flynn another little op for him in the next couple of months. I am very glad Mike is around over the holidays, yay for us!! I am pretty happy with all of this, hopefully the lab results will be good too. Mike was happy with how he has progressed postop too.

Think that's it, crikey what a novel... sorry xx