Honey and I Are Home

    • Gold Top Dog

    Honey and I Are Home


    HONEY AND I ARE HOME AND ALL WENT GREAT.  HE STARTED AT 9:00 AND I LEFT THERE WITH HER ACTING LIKE HER "WILD CHILD" SELF AT 12:45.  AS SOON AS IT WAS OVER THEY TOLD ME TO COME BACK WITH HER AND I WENT BACK AND GOT ON THE FLOOR ON THE BLANKET WITH HER.  IF I HAD NOT BEEN WARNED IT WOULD HAVE SCARED THE YOU KNOW WHAT OUT OF ME.  SHE WAS LAYING WITH HEAD UP AND AND GOING FROM SIDE TO SIDE WITH EYES HUGE, SHAKING, HER BACK LEGS JERKING, MAKING THE MOST PITIFUL CRYING SOUND.  SHE WAS HAVING HALLUCINATIONS.AND WAS TERRIFIED OF SOMETHING SHE WAS "SEEING".  I SAT DOWN AND CRADDLED HER HEAD AND TALKED TO HER AND TRIED TO KEEP HER ON THE BLANKET.  AFTER A WHILE AS THE STUFF WORE OFF SHE CALMED DOWN AND WAS ACTUALLY TRYING TO GET UP. AT THAT POINT I SAID TO GO AHEAD ANDUT HER IN A CAGE, IT WOULD BE SAFER FOR HER.

    WHEN SHE WAS IN THE CAGE, RICKEY HOLLER OUT TO ME AND ASKED IF I WANTED TO WATCH A SPAY.  I JUMPED AT THE CHANCE.  I WATCHED HIM DO KAYCEE'S SPAY, BUT THAT WAS OVER 8 1/2 YEARS AGO.   THIS WAS A BEAUTIFUL LEMON AND WHITE POINTER  AS HE REMOVED THE  UTERUS  HE SAID  ALL HER FEMALE PARTS WERE MUCH LARGER THAN NORMAL,  I KNEW IT WAS ABOUT 4 TIMES THE SIZE OFKAYCEE'S, BUT KAYCEE HAD ONLY BEE LIKE 8 MONTHS I AM THINKING, OR MAYBE EVEN 7 WOULD BE MORE CORRECT.  THIS WAS A FULL GROWN DOG OF UNKNOWN AGE, BUT YOUNG.AND APPEARED TO HAVE HAD PUPS AT ONE TIME

    bY THE TIME THAT SURGERY WAS OVER, HONEY WAS WAGGING HER TAIL AND TALKING TO ME.  WE WAITED JUST A LITTLE LONGER AND SHE MADE IT CLEAR SHE WAS READY TO GET OUT OF HERE AND COME HOME.  TRIED TO PULL ME STRAIGHT OUT THE FRONT DOOR AND TO THE CAR.

    SHE WAS SO THIRSTY WHEN WE GOT HOME.  I JUST GAVE HER A SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER, WIATIED A LITTLE AND GAVE HER MORE.  I GUESS OVER ALL SHE ENDED UP DRINKING AT LEAST 4 CUTS OF WATER.  AND SHE HAD HER BREAKFAST THAT SHE MISSED THIS MORNING.

    AFTER LOOKING THE TUMOR OVER HE WAS ABOUT 95% SURE IT WAS STRICTLY A FATTY TUMOR, BUT BECAUSE OF LOCATION HE WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO BE REMOVED ANYWAY.  hE HAS WATCHED HER FLOP DOWN AND IT WAS CAUGHT THERE BETWEEN HER LAST RIGS WHERE THEY JOIN.  HE SAID THE INCISION--ABOUT 2" LONG WILL DRIVE HER NUTS BECAUSE OF THE WAY SHE LAYS, AND I HAVE TO CLEAN IT A COUPLE OF TIMES EVERY DAY AND WATCH TO MAKE SURE SHE DOESN'T TRY TO CHW OR LICK I, THO SHE PROBABLY CAN'T REACH IT.  GETS STITCHES OUT IN 10 DAYS.  BIG SIGN OF RELIEF THAT IT IS OVER AND SHE IS HER NORMAL SELF IN SUCH A SHORT TIME.

    I WENT TO BED AT 11:30 LAST NIGHT, BUT WAS SO WORRIED THAT I WAS STILL AWAKE AT 1;30, SO GOT UP AND GOT ON THE COMPUTER AND WAS ON HERE TIL 4:30.  gOT IN BED AND THE LAST TIME I LOOKED AT THE CLOCK IT WAS 4:55.  tHEN I HAD TO GE UP AT 7;00 TO HAVE HER THERE BY 8:00 FOR HER DENTAL AND TUMOR REMOVAL.  POOR GIRL COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY HER WATER DISH WAS ON THE COUNTER AND HER FOOD BOWL REMAINED EMPTY.

     

    HOPEFULLY A PICTURE TAKEN OF HER ABOUT 4 MONTHS AGO

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    • Gold Top Dog

    It's great that Honey is doing well.  Wishing her a speedy recovery.

    • Gold Top Dog

     She's a beautiful girl Sandra. I'm so glad she did well, and that your vet thinks it's not cancer. I hope the incision heals quickly so she can lay the way she likes without any pain.

    • Gold Top Dog

    Looks like this is ALL good news!!  That's great!! 

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    I WENT BY RICKEY' TO PICK UP A TWO WEEK SUPPLY OF CEPHALEXIN FOR HONEY TODAY.  I HAD HER IN 2 WEEKS AGO FOR A PRE SURGICAL BLOOD PANEL AND WE FOUND HER CREATININE LEVEL WAS UP AND HE WANTED HER ON ANTIBIOTICS FOR A MONTH FOR THAT..  I DIDN'T THINK TO GET THE REFIL YESTERDAY AND ONLY HAD 2 DAYS SUPPLY LEFT.

    HONEY AND I LEFT THERE YESTERDAY BEFOR THE BILL WAS FIGURED, SO I TOLD THEM TODAY I WOULD PAY IT UP AND PAY FOR THE ANTIBIOTIC. I HAD GIVEN THEM $300 YESTERDAY MORNING TO PAY FOR THE BLOOD WORK 7 IRST MEDS, AND WHAT I STILL OWED, PLUS SOME TOWARDS THE DENTAL AND SURGERY.  I HAD A $189 CREDIT AFTER THE $111  I OWED  WAS TAKEN OUT

    GOT OVER THERE TODAY, THE BILL WAS TOTALED, INCULDING THE CEPHALEXIN I GOT TO TODAY---AND I HAVE A CREDIT OF $6.57  THE TOTAL BILL FOR THE SURGERY, THE DENTAL, A PENICILLIN INJECTION AND THE 56 CEPHALEXIN CAPS I GOT TODAY CAME TO  $183.25.  YOU COULD ADD THE $65 FOR THE BLOOD PANEL INTO THAT FIGURE AND IT MAKES IT HIGHER, BUT STILL, TO HAVE THE BLOOD PANEL, THE TUMOR REMOVAL AND A COMPLETE DENTAL FOR JUST UNDER $220---THIS DOES NOT COUNT THE CEPHALEXIN-- IS GREAT.  AND SHE WOULD HAVE HAD THE BLOOD PANEL ANYWAY AS IT WA TIME FOR HER YEARLY BLOOD WORK.   

    CANT BELIEVE EVERYTHING IS PAID OFF AND I HAVE A TINY CREDIT LEFT!

    • Gold Top Dog

    That's some awesome vet you have Sandra!

    • Gold Top Dog

    Yes he is a great vet.  his main concern are the animals.  i stopped in there firday nd gave the a check for $125, so now ha a $131+change credit!  we are always jokigtha i itheowe himorhavea credit, never a 0 balance.  i do have to pick up heart worm pills the middle of sept--Honey has one fo Sept 1 here from th lat 6 pack i got.  Then in Nov., around the 21st she goes in to have her creatinine level tested ad also get her distemper vax.  i would say most, if not all, is already paid for.  unless another emergency comes up before then.