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Good Evening Lodge!
Cleared my cache and realized I hadn't clicked on this in a long time.
Lil is 30
I see some people on fb now and it makes me miss our little community on here.

leswp1 said:

Lil is 30
I see some people on fb now and it makes me miss our little community on here.

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30?!? How can that be?

I also miss the good ol' days of tLodge...

leswp1 said:

Just signed in after months and saw this. So sad. She sounds as if she is anxious? Its a month later so I don't know what happened. My first thought was an anxiety med. Hugs

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Welp, she seems to have stumped the vets. Recovery started to improve, finally, and we're slowly getting her off the post-op meds. But in the meantime:

Vet did a blood panel shortly after that post. Liver numbers were slightly higher than they should be, so they put her on a supplement along with the anti-biotics. The wretching/gagging/licking at air got worse.

Vet (running though checkboxes) gave a pro-biotic to give her off hours of the anti-biotic to try and get her stomach calm.

Raspy cough, sometimes wet, sometimes dry, gets worse as well. Once she was done with the first set of antibiotics, vet prescribed a stronger dose to try and shake whatever she might have. Two weeks of that. To help kick start the immune system in shutting down whatever it is, also prescribes a steroid with a stepped reduction to taper her off it. Also prescribes PepcidAC (OTC) to help ease the stomach from the steroid.

Day after the first reduction, Cookie goes into a big gagging/coughing/licking at air fit where she's fighting to inhale air.

Finally get her calmed down and breathing okay. Talk to the vet, they recommend (and write the script to fill the pills) keeping her on the high dose for a couple more weeks. Then taper down. Pepcid can be stopped as it didn't really do much (other than help calm the stomach from the first few days of steroids).

Since then, she's had a couple coughing fits but nothing as severe as she had after the steroid reduction. Sounds like a steam engine some times. And gets tires easily (but has lots of burts of energy banked up from all the napping the last two months).

Vet is stumped. We're also stumped. Meanwhile, we also have a foster dog that is 'mama-hen'-ing Cookie making sure shes okay after her fits. So she has someone around the house again.

The vet thinks she may have Cushings Disease, and asked if we wanted to pursue further testing. At this point, from everything we read, she has zero (maybe one) sign of symptoms from Cushings.

Dr. Google says that there could be a breakdown of the trachea causing her to suck air like she has, but that's generally seen in small breed dogs, not ones her size.

I have a weird feeling she somehow contracted Heart Worm again, 10 years after being treated for it originally. Most of her latest symptoms match.

Greetings Lodge. Hope you're all doing well. Not sure if I posted here but my mom passed away two months ago. We took her to the ER in early April, she went from there to rehab for two weeks, back to the hospital and then to hospice. Making the decision to put her in hospice was the hardest thing I've ever done - not to say it was just my call. But it was the right decision we all made as a family. We don't regret it. It was her time.

The last two months have been non-stop dealing with her stuff - life insurance, health insurance, financial stuff, stopping cable, electricity and gas, her cell phone (don't get me started on that). My brother, who had moved back from California to move in with her, has now moved in with me and today he did the walk through with the landlord at her (their) apartment and handed over the keys and confirmed we're getting the full security deposit back. And I'm sitting here in my place sobbing. Because, well, I don't know why. Probably because it really means she's gone and I'm so sad. When my dad passed, my mom was still there and we would be there constantly. It wasn't the main family home but it was where they both spent their final years. Now...it really is like closing a book. Grief is really a strange thing. I've gone weeks without falling apart and now these past couple of days I've been falling apart. I was in the office yesterday and a few co-workers on the other side of the cube wall were talking about calling their mothers and whether they should or when they could. I almost stood up and said "Call her." But I ran into the ladies room for a quick cry.

Now that the move is done, I'm hoping to take some time off to disconnect and relax.

Scarlet said:

Greetings Lodge. Hope you're all doing well. Not sure if I posted here but my mom passed away two months ago. We took her to the ER in early April, she went from there to rehab for two weeks, back to the hospital and then to hospice. Making the decision to put her in hospice was the hardest thing I've ever done - not to say it was just my call. But it was the right decision we all made as a family. We don't regret it. It was her time.

The last two months have been non-stop dealing with her stuff - life insurance, health insurance, financial stuff, stopping cable, electricity and gas, her cell phone (don't get me started on that). My brother, who had moved back from California to move in with her, has now moved in with me and today he did the walk through with the landlord at her (their) apartment and handed over the keys and confirmed we're getting the full security deposit back. And I'm sitting here in my place sobbing. Because, well, I don't know why. Probably because it really means she's gone and I'm so sad. When my dad passed, my mom was still there and we would be there constantly. It wasn't the main family home but it was where they both spent their final years. Now...it really is like closing a book. Grief is really a strange thing. I've gone weeks without falling apart and now these past couple of days I've been falling apart. I was in the office yesterday and a few co-workers on the other side of the cube wall were talking about calling their mothers and whether they should or when they could. I almost stood up and said "Call her." But I ran into the ladies room for a quick cry.

Now that the move is done, I'm hoping to take some time off to disconnect and relax.

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...hugs...

Definitely not an easy thing to go through. My mother-in-law passed away last week so my wife and I are trying to deal with dad and the house. Funeral is Saturday and we've got to deal with all the relatives (big Italian family).

My mom's been gone since September and I still have moments where I think she's still around.

My sympathies, Scarlet.