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Cocker Specific Discussion => Oldies (Over 9s) => Topic started by: PennyB on November 16, 2015, 09:39:48 AM
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Lady wasn't well on Friday - she'd been chucking up all day thurs, well after both meals and then was throwing up after drinking water and guarding a painful stomach. So rather than wait a few days I took her to vets 1st thing friday so she got all the works done, including a blood test. She's a lot better now and doesn't have pancreatitis, which is what we thought re her illness last week but her bloods suggest a low platelet count.
Fingers crossed its nothing nasty - it could be an autoimmune thing like Wilf had nearly 2 years ago but worried that I can't be that lucky as he sailed through treatment and became well quickly from that and still is.
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Fingers and paws crossed, that is nothing too serious, sending lots of positive thoughts for a good outcome :bigarmhug:
Stephanie, George and Hamish xxx
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Oh dear, hope it is something simple Penny :-\
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Hope it's nothing nasty, just a one off xx
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everything crossed for a special girl :luv: :luv:
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I hope things turn out well.
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keeping everything crossed its nothing nasty and she bounces back quickly :luv: :bigarmhug:
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It hasn't stopped her getting covered in mud and rolling in long dead toad though
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Hope its just a bug and nothing more serious.
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Positive thoughts and hoping it is something and nothing. :luv: Happy rolling Lady! :005:
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All fingers and paws crossed here that it is nothing serious.
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Hoping it is nothing serious
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Everything crossed here for Lady.
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More blood tests today to see what is going on, if anything
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Platelets higher than last week but still below normal range so another blood test next week and to keep an eye on her gums
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Hope her levels continue to rise Penny :-\
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Hope so too, as vet worried it may be the start of something. While I am told to keep looking at her gums for pinprick dots but in Wilf my vet did this but hadn't realised his was shown on his belly as bruising so best to look at both
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Fingers crossed for her.
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Healing thoughts.
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In herself she's very well but the worry is what is the underlying factor we've discovered - if platelets still not right will ask for imaging to be done
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Hoping the platelets turn out to be ok :bigarmhug: and there is nothing underlying.
Glad she is well in herself that's got to be encouraging
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hoping am wasting a good worry here but Lady slipped jumping on the sofa on Sunday and was limping but was fine after a few days rest plus I was getting her bloods done at vets anyway a few days later. We ended up having X-rays done as something not right and to my vet it looks like her hip on one side is crumbling so we've sent X-rays off to the orthopaedic vet in Swansea + she told me later that the bloods looked watery too.
Praying the 2 aren't linked in some way and that its nothing nasty lurking
What a worry they are - as always Lady is Lady and as stoic as Ruby always was (even the other day when she was running around on 3 legs it was as if she was on 4 (even though we haven't seen anything before + my groomer was here on Friday and didn't notice anything re her hip either and she was with me in the house grooming her and Lady was on table for a fair while)
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Mind you as soon as she came out of sedation her 1st thoughts were for her stomach as the vet there gives her treats for being on the table LOL so they fed her while she was there
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Hope you can get some answers soon, that will put your mind at rest. x
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Tomorrow we get the blood test results and Steve B will review the x-rays quickly - vet nurse friend sent me a copy of x ray and it actually looks like its dislocated and broken at one point
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/PennyB/Lady_HipX-Ray_zpsg7bl89rg.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/PennyB/media/Lady_HipX-Ray_zpsg7bl89rg.jpg.html)
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omg! poor girl :(
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bloods back and weird picture so fingers crossed her hip is simple and not connected as her platelets are rising in the right direction but her red blood cells are down now, which isn't good at all
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Oh dear, what a worry Penny :-\
Hope the vet can get to the bottom of it and sort her out quickly :-*
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Better news re Lady - the orthopod suggests its osteoarthritis with underlying dysplasia with dystrophic calcification and also possibly secondary to an injury in the past or other disease process so I guess the fall didn't help the other sunday - if she was ever in pain in the time I've had her you would never know with Lady. He thinks cancer is very unlikely but can't rule it out (but that isn't considered enough to be an issue).
Treatment is 4-6 weeks rest and anti-inflammatories in the hope this is a severe sprain, and if needed physio after that (but considering having physio sooner anyway plus a good way to monitor her) He did say he doesn't rule out full hip replacement if its needed or other surgery. So we're just going to go with the flow with the treatment.
Not sure what's happening re her bloods but that will be monitored
Still not there but looking more hopeful than it was last week
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Ah I was just looking at how things are going
will she rest up ok?
sending you both big hugs :bigarmhug:
steffxxx
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will she rest up ok?
Now that's another story LOL
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Well, that sounds more hopeful :D
Have you tried her with Golden Paste? Might help with any inflammation ;)
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oooo that's an idea, thanks for reminding me
She's now on metacam and yumove (still on loading dose at the moment)
To be honest she's running around the house as if nothing was wrong and if her platelets are OK will be taking her to the smart clinic before christmas for acupuncture and their monitoring - that way I'll feel better that we're not missing anything (I know some swear by some of those places that swim the dogs but also know the clinic I go to has vets who know their stuff - plus when Wilf goes they give him the once over as well after his autoimmune incident 2 years ago)
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Well, it certainly won't do any harm.
Have you joined the Turmeric User Group on FB? Lots of info on there ;)
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Yes am on it but not getting notifications any more
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Glad its better news today :luv:
We put Ben on Yumove about 10 months ago and it has been great he is a lot less stiff and so far no repeat issues with his back, hope you see improvements for Lady too, it took about 2 - 3 weeks before I noticed a significant difference.
Good luck keeping her 'rested' :005: cockers seem to have the 'take it easy' gene missing
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While Lady is 11 and at vets she's perfectly still (when one of my vets 1st met her and she got off the table and danced everywhere he commented oh she does move) she is a working type cocker - may be not as busy as she probably was when younger (I don't know) but she's still keen and a little norty ninja in the house as she's the smallest but always manages to get higher than the others somehow
Worse is going out to walk the others as she gets quite stressy if we all leave her (I'm her 4th home) - so am having to leave one at home with her and keep swapping over - when Ruby was here she was ideal for this as she needed less exercise as she got older or was happy to oblige.