Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
We would really appreciate a few little prayers for two of the furry members of our K9-American family. Suzy and Bob [she's a girl, but we just call her Bob, kinda like a boy named Sue 
] Both of these guys have spent most of the past week at the Ohio State University Vet Hospital in Columbus - aka The Cleveland Clinic For Dogs. The local vets are fine for routine stuff but anything potentially serious and they go to OSU, even though it's a 1200 mile drive from where we live.
Little Prayer #1: Suzy is all black, 23 lbs, 7 yrs. old, mostly Border Collie. Awhile back I found a lump. The local vet said, "It's nothing - don't worry about it. " I'm not a worrier but I've been checking human lumps for 35 years, so after watching it get a little bigger over a few months I took her back and twisted his arm to do a biopsy. Mast cell tumor, malignant, bad.
So off to OSU. They found it's spread too much for surgery to do any good so she's on chemo, which, surprisingly usually is pretty effective.
Little Prayer #2: Bob is 23 lbs, Golden Retriever mix and she's 17 years old. She's had low grade chronic renal failure for over a year but it's been pretty well managed with Science Diet k/d food. She developed a dental infection two days before Suzy was to leave for OSU. The local vet found she had a heart murmur and her kidney function was worse, therefore, anesthesia to take care of the teeth was high risk. So she went to Columbus with Suzy. Bob had a complete work-up - dental, cardiology, internal medicine and nephrology consults. After two days of IVs, tune-ups, etc. she had her surgery this AM. She did great through the procedure [lost 6 teeth] and is now in the post-op ICU. She seems to be coming along great but we still have our fingers crossed.
We sure would appreciate all y'all's +++ thoughts for our little buddies and also a prayer of thanks for the dedication, skills and caring of all the good folks at OSU Vet Teaching Hospital.
And I thank God for all you out there in TDRland who I know understand this stuff enough that I can be comfortable writing this post asking for support.
Thanks.
] Both of these guys have spent most of the past week at the Ohio State University Vet Hospital in Columbus - aka The Cleveland Clinic For Dogs. The local vets are fine for routine stuff but anything potentially serious and they go to OSU, even though it's a 1200 mile drive from where we live. Little Prayer #1: Suzy is all black, 23 lbs, 7 yrs. old, mostly Border Collie. Awhile back I found a lump. The local vet said, "It's nothing - don't worry about it. " I'm not a worrier but I've been checking human lumps for 35 years, so after watching it get a little bigger over a few months I took her back and twisted his arm to do a biopsy. Mast cell tumor, malignant, bad.
So off to OSU. They found it's spread too much for surgery to do any good so she's on chemo, which, surprisingly usually is pretty effective. Little Prayer #2: Bob is 23 lbs, Golden Retriever mix and she's 17 years old. She's had low grade chronic renal failure for over a year but it's been pretty well managed with Science Diet k/d food. She developed a dental infection two days before Suzy was to leave for OSU. The local vet found she had a heart murmur and her kidney function was worse, therefore, anesthesia to take care of the teeth was high risk. So she went to Columbus with Suzy. Bob had a complete work-up - dental, cardiology, internal medicine and nephrology consults. After two days of IVs, tune-ups, etc. she had her surgery this AM. She did great through the procedure [lost 6 teeth] and is now in the post-op ICU. She seems to be coming along great but we still have our fingers crossed.
We sure would appreciate all y'all's +++ thoughts for our little buddies and also a prayer of thanks for the dedication, skills and caring of all the good folks at OSU Vet Teaching Hospital.
And I thank God for all you out there in TDRland who I know understand this stuff enough that I can be comfortable writing this post asking for support.
Thanks.
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