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I'm a pretty open-hearted person. Some people would probably call me naive. Actually, come to think of it, probably a lot of people would. I'm no saint, but I'm generally honest, strive to be a kind and good person, and try to see the best in people. There are very few people in this world that I truly dislike. With the exception of, say, Paul ( Read more... ) -
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I spoke to the vet yesterday, and Bella doesn't have lepto. Again. So, again, we still don't know what made her sick. ::sigh:: The vet spoke to another vet who specializes in pathology, and this vet didn't think the cause was likely to be a TBD. If she'd had Lyme either time, it would have been taken care of by the antibiotics, but in any case, her ( Read more... ) -
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Bella continues to act as if she were never sick, and I expect that's the way it will go until next time, if there is a next time. The nine-TBD DNA panel came back with everything negative, of course. ::sigh:: I joined Tick-L and put the mystery before them. One person suggested doing a a Protatek titer panel because it may be better than DNA tests ( Read more... ) -
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Bella's nine-TBD panel came back last week--everything was negative. We're still waiting for confirmation on the lepto test, but I just can't imagine that she caught lepto two years in a row. Yes, it's endemic here, but it's not THAT common ( Read more... ) -
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Liz's grand old lady, Tidy (Can CH Kare's Ocean Tide CDX WC JH) died very suddenly and unexpectedly on Saturday morning. I'd taken Nick out to Pat's for an obedience lesson on Saturday afternoon, and Pat told me the news. Liz had let all of her dogs out that morning, and when she called them in for breakfast a few minutes later, Tidy didn't come. ( Read more... ) -
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Bella's mystery illness has run its course. Thursday and Friday were pretty rough for her--she was stiff and sore, and once lying down, couldn't get up by herself. She couldn't walk up even one stair, and she tiptoed around like an old woman. The intial bloodwork at the vet's showed that she was slightly anaemic, her WBCs were normal, and her liver ( Read more... ) -
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Click on the "illness" tag to the left and read the entries about Bella's mystery fever last summer ( Read more... ) -
Jean Dodds Seminar, Part IV
The last topic of the day was hypothyroidism. About 70% of the thyroid gland has to be destroyed before classic hypothyroid symptoms present, so Dr. Dodds spent a lot of time going over the early signs of hypothyroid that aren't commonly recognized as such:
General symptoms: lethargy, mental dullness, exercise intolerance, neurologic signs, weight ( Read more... ) -
Jean Dodds Seminar, Part III
The afternoon session of the Jean Dodds seminar was devoted to nutrition and hypothyroidism. I'll just do nutrition in this post ( Read more... ) -
Jean Dodds Seminar, Part II
It's going to be a bit of a challenge to write up my notes--the seminar tended to jump from topic to topic, especially when people were asking a lot of questions--but I'll give it my best shot.
According to Dr. Dodds, yearly vaccinations were originally recommended for dogs and cats not because there was evidence that they needed them that often, ( Read more... )