ClantyreSheltie
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Well, I have made it seven and a half years with only minor bumps and scrapes. So I guess I can't really complain.
Miss Liesl went to the vet tonight because she had what I though was a raging UTI. And having had one of those myself, I had much pity. I saw a vet at the practice that I have only seen once before, but I have to say, she is awesome. She did a sterile culture, urinalysis, and CNS right off the bat. Ouch, I knew this was going to cost me, but better know up front what we are dealing with. She comes back with the report that there are stones, not a couple, but "more than a few". Ruh-roh.
She offered two courses of action. First, go in surgically, get them out, analyze, then proceed. Or change to prescription food for a month to see if the stones dissolve on their own. Because of the numbers, she was skeptical about the second plan working. And to be honest, the dog in question heals ridiculously fast, and I didn't see the need to waste a month potentially keeping her in pain and playing with foods that I had zero intention of keeping her on anyway.
So, Miss Liesl is scheduled for a "stone-ectomy" or whatever the fancy word is on Wednesday, and is on Clavamox until we find out the results of the CNS/stone biopsy. The vet was totally in agreement with my "just get it done and lets manage from there" attitude. Love it when that happens!
Poor Liesl. But like I said, I've gone 7 1/2 years without anything major, and this isn't even a big thing on the "major" scale. It's not cancer, it's not kidney failure, it's not closed pyo. I just hope the antibiotics keep the pain at bay until we know what we are dealing with.
And for the record, if they are the food-influenced kind of stones, the odds of her being on Science Diet is about zero. I am whipping out Lew Olson's book right now to check out stone friendly natural diets.
Miss Liesl went to the vet tonight because she had what I though was a raging UTI. And having had one of those myself, I had much pity. I saw a vet at the practice that I have only seen once before, but I have to say, she is awesome. She did a sterile culture, urinalysis, and CNS right off the bat. Ouch, I knew this was going to cost me, but better know up front what we are dealing with. She comes back with the report that there are stones, not a couple, but "more than a few". Ruh-roh.
She offered two courses of action. First, go in surgically, get them out, analyze, then proceed. Or change to prescription food for a month to see if the stones dissolve on their own. Because of the numbers, she was skeptical about the second plan working. And to be honest, the dog in question heals ridiculously fast, and I didn't see the need to waste a month potentially keeping her in pain and playing with foods that I had zero intention of keeping her on anyway.
So, Miss Liesl is scheduled for a "stone-ectomy" or whatever the fancy word is on Wednesday, and is on Clavamox until we find out the results of the CNS/stone biopsy. The vet was totally in agreement with my "just get it done and lets manage from there" attitude. Love it when that happens!
Poor Liesl. But like I said, I've gone 7 1/2 years without anything major, and this isn't even a big thing on the "major" scale. It's not cancer, it's not kidney failure, it's not closed pyo. I just hope the antibiotics keep the pain at bay until we know what we are dealing with.
And for the record, if they are the food-influenced kind of stones, the odds of her being on Science Diet is about zero. I am whipping out Lew Olson's book right now to check out stone friendly natural diets.
