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Hope

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Hey Linda!

Sorry for delayed response – 2nd week of school and we already had 2 tests today! They don’t count against us but nobody wants to be the one to fail the first test lol! Its interesting that you mentioned Horner’s – awful that poor Sadie has it though. We spent like 20 minutes in Embryology talking about it last week – I had never even heard of it before then. I’m glad Ms. Sadie has improved with that.. these little pups are such survivors! When I took Steve’s stinky brother in today for his anal gland expression, our general vet was saying that Steve’s been through a lot… tell me about it! Tell y’all about it!!

I’m glad I am using the same milk thistle as you – so far I have given him about 8 drops twice over the last 24 hours. I was worried that it might upset his stomach but I really haven’t seen any problems with it. Should I stay at that for a few days or you think it’s okay to increase it?

Steve is also on anti-clotting meds in addition to the aspirin.. we have him on Lovenox. I wondered why he would be on both– did his blood work show that he needed to be on both? The doctor mentioned that when they decrease his Pred maybe we would be able to discontinue it because it’s super expensive ($300 for 2 weeks). However, I am more than willing to sell a kidney to pay for it.. i’m super anxious about blood clots. Does anyone have any insight as to why they would put him on both?

I have been playing around with cooking for Steve – I don’t know if that is bad since his diagnosis. Because of the bladder stones though he has to be on U/D or purine-free diet forever. Only giving him wet U/D gives him diarrhea; only giving him dry makes me concerned about bloat. I usually use both, but I have started giving him a few things that are purine-free like eggs, cottage cheese, peanut butter, etc. instead of just u/D. He really doesn’t like it and it smells kind of nasty. I made him Dr. Dodds’ liver cleanse diet but I haven’t stuck to giving it to him for every meal because it has chicken which is on the no-go list for his type of bladder stone. I am super worried about him having to go thru that surgery while he’s dealing with IMHA.

I know Tamara is doing the liver cleanse with Mr. Ashki but did anyone else do it? I’m just curious if anyone had really great outcomes from it and if I should just suck it up and go for it.

He’s going for a check up tomorrow with the doctor, another PCV and everything. I’m going to be in class but husband has a list of things to talk to him about: 1) his tech sucking it, 2) the questionably stinky urine (though I think that was resolved with his brother’s anal glands), 3) running another full blood workup to see liver levels, etc… anything else?

I’m still a bit concerned he’s going to be a little over eager to knock down his dosages and we are going to have to battle. I also really want him on the lovenox — it makes me feel better, though I hate having to give the injections to him.

Thanks to everyone for reading my drabble and letting me bounce question after question after concern off of y’all!

Hugs! Hope and (food-comaed) Steve

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