Our sweet Chloe girl has had some health issues recently. She had 3 suspicious spots removed and 2 of them were cancerous. One of the cancerous spots did not get clean margins, so we are watching it closely and will take her back if anything else shows up.
I took her to get her staples out and that incision was so inflamed that he wasn't able to see them all. It was very painful for her, so I of course had to reward her with some doggie ice cream!
You can imagine how much she loved that cone, and I spent one very sleepless night on the floor in the living room with her needing to constantly be touching me and shaking uncontrollably. Fun fact: I absolutely CANNOT be touching anyone while I am sleeping. The next morning, I begged Matt to go to the pet store and find something like this to keep her happier! While she still wasn't thrilled by it, she was much, much calmer.
We made the decision to switch vets for a few reasons, and Chloe's first appointment with the new vet was last week. It wasn’t the ideal time to switch, but we felt it was necessary. The new vet found more staples in the inflamed incision that weren't seen the first time, so poor Chloe had to endure even more torture.
The vet also was concerned that Chloe has been requiring 4 full meals a day in order to maintain a healthy weight for a boxer. This is double the amount of food she should be getting. (She looks great, but that is deceiving. For as much as she eats, she should be majorly overweight!). I’ve been concerned about this for quite some time and had voiced my concerns several times to our former vet, but he didn’t seem worried. We decided to do a fasting blood work panel to find out if there is something going on in her digestive tract. This could be some kind of disease, a metabolic issue, or that other horrible thing that I don't want to think about.
Chloe had her blood work done yesterday, and we should get the results this week. Unfortunately, she lost .5 of a pound in the week since we were at the vet. Ugh. We are hopeful that whatever the problem is can be controlled with medication, and we are absolutely dreading having to make the tough decisions. Hopefully, it will be a simple fix and we won't have to.
Right now, we are thankful that our girl seems quite happy and not in any pain. She spends her days being adored, sung to, and smothered by Abby, but she doesn't seem to mind. Abby absolutely loves Chloe, and I think the feeling is mutual!
I took her to get her staples out and that incision was so inflamed that he wasn't able to see them all. It was very painful for her, so I of course had to reward her with some doggie ice cream!
Unfortunately, that incision was infected, which earned her the cone of shame and twice daily wound care. (I totally felt like Oprah here...You get wound care! You get wound care! Everybody gets wound care!!)
You can imagine how much she loved that cone, and I spent one very sleepless night on the floor in the living room with her needing to constantly be touching me and shaking uncontrollably. Fun fact: I absolutely CANNOT be touching anyone while I am sleeping. The next morning, I begged Matt to go to the pet store and find something like this to keep her happier! While she still wasn't thrilled by it, she was much, much calmer.
We made the decision to switch vets for a few reasons, and Chloe's first appointment with the new vet was last week. It wasn’t the ideal time to switch, but we felt it was necessary. The new vet found more staples in the inflamed incision that weren't seen the first time, so poor Chloe had to endure even more torture.
The vet also was concerned that Chloe has been requiring 4 full meals a day in order to maintain a healthy weight for a boxer. This is double the amount of food she should be getting. (She looks great, but that is deceiving. For as much as she eats, she should be majorly overweight!). I’ve been concerned about this for quite some time and had voiced my concerns several times to our former vet, but he didn’t seem worried. We decided to do a fasting blood work panel to find out if there is something going on in her digestive tract. This could be some kind of disease, a metabolic issue, or that other horrible thing that I don't want to think about.
Chloe had her blood work done yesterday, and we should get the results this week. Unfortunately, she lost .5 of a pound in the week since we were at the vet. Ugh. We are hopeful that whatever the problem is can be controlled with medication, and we are absolutely dreading having to make the tough decisions. Hopefully, it will be a simple fix and we won't have to.
Right now, we are thankful that our girl seems quite happy and not in any pain. She spends her days being adored, sung to, and smothered by Abby, but she doesn't seem to mind. Abby absolutely loves Chloe, and I think the feeling is mutual!
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