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Well, yesterday was a very emotional day for us. Cleo turned 11 yesterday and our little Buddy never had that chance. If you recall, we also had an appointment at the vet for Cleo.
The blood work came back very good and I was pleasantly surprised, mostly extremely relieved especially the liver values.
We did have the X-rays done, without sedation (thank you Yunhee).
The leg that Cleo had surgery on shows degeneration at the hip
The other leg shows significant osteoarthritis at the knee.
However, the vet did manual manipulations and Cleo didn't seem to mind to much and the vet suspects that neither of the above problems are the cause of her limping and pain. He thinks she may have a soft tissue injury which does not show on the x-rays.
For that, she is on .5mg of Metacam and 25mg of Tramador twice a day and last night, we noticed already that she wasn't panting from the pain and sleeping a lot more peacefully. He asked us to restrict physical activities so the princess is prevented from jumping on/off the couch, steps, etc.and no walks. We will try this and see if it brings relief. Meanwhile, I am reading up on GDP AND HYALANURIC ACID (Thanks Natalie), keeping Adequan in mind and see if I can get it in Canada or even find an online shop that will ship to Canada.
I have said on a few occasions that Cleo is not the same since Buddy left and that goes also for her drinking, peeing. One never drank without the other one, never went out without the other one and we had noticed that many mornings when we got up and put her outside, she wouldn't pee and many times at night, she wouldn't got for a last pee. We also noticed that also drank less. The urine showed some blood and infection so the vet gave her an injectable antibiotic (Convenia). It was originally was skin irritation but has had very good results for UTI. We will go back in 2 weeks for another culture.
Her eye that had the ulcer showed a bit of irritation so we also have to put one drop of Fucithalmic and continue to put Genteal in both eyes at night.
Thank you for all the information, suggestions and advice. As usual, what would we ever do without this board.
Louise
Well, yesterday was a very emotional day for us. Cleo turned 11 yesterday and our little Buddy never had that chance. If you recall, we also had an appointment at the vet for Cleo.
The blood work came back very good and I was pleasantly surprised, mostly extremely relieved especially the liver values.
We did have the X-rays done, without sedation (thank you Yunhee).
The leg that Cleo had surgery on shows degeneration at the hip
The other leg shows significant osteoarthritis at the knee.
However, the vet did manual manipulations and Cleo didn't seem to mind to much and the vet suspects that neither of the above problems are the cause of her limping and pain. He thinks she may have a soft tissue injury which does not show on the x-rays.
For that, she is on .5mg of Metacam and 25mg of Tramador twice a day and last night, we noticed already that she wasn't panting from the pain and sleeping a lot more peacefully. He asked us to restrict physical activities so the princess is prevented from jumping on/off the couch, steps, etc.and no walks. We will try this and see if it brings relief. Meanwhile, I am reading up on GDP AND HYALANURIC ACID (Thanks Natalie), keeping Adequan in mind and see if I can get it in Canada or even find an online shop that will ship to Canada.
I have said on a few occasions that Cleo is not the same since Buddy left and that goes also for her drinking, peeing. One never drank without the other one, never went out without the other one and we had noticed that many mornings when we got up and put her outside, she wouldn't pee and many times at night, she wouldn't got for a last pee. We also noticed that also drank less. The urine showed some blood and infection so the vet gave her an injectable antibiotic (Convenia). It was originally was skin irritation but has had very good results for UTI. We will go back in 2 weeks for another culture.
Her eye that had the ulcer showed a bit of irritation so we also have to put one drop of Fucithalmic and continue to put Genteal in both eyes at night.
Thank you for all the information, suggestions and advice. As usual, what would we ever do without this board.
Louise
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