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Date:
6/9/2013 12:06:44 PM
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RE: banned from muppets again....
Pretty sure that the clinic won't discuss client cases with random nutbars that call because of the internet. Patient confidentiality and all.
Dogs pull things just like we do. Did the vet actually do a cranial drawer test with the current inflammation? It is cranial not caudal cruciate (CCL isn't specific)? Those are usually due to something--frisbee or agility being primary.
Funny story. The dog I got back in 2009, Charlie, would have turned 7 this week. My vet was on me for years to prepare me for his "eventuality" of a dental (but naturally didn't instruct on how to do preventative other than changing to dental diet). So last visit he said "now is the time oh and we need to do an extraction so cha ching". I got two other opinions because we really didn't not want to put him under because my wife's parents lost a dog that way when she was a girl. Anyway, we went to the local top boarded specialist, who has a coworker of mine do anesthesiology, so we went with her. Needed 3 extractions and periodontal work. $2500.
Picked him up, he recovered fine, ate fine the next morning. A few hours later he vomited all that food up. He then could not keep water down. A few calls back and forth with the on call vet got us on a rice diet and restricted water routine and he appeared to be responding. The next day he crashed, went cyanotic, and died in the back seat of our car on our way to the emergency vet. The boarded dental surgeon was beside herself, went back over all his tape and saw no hypotensive episodes.
Fortunately as I work at a vet school I have access. I had my dog necropsied and it turns out he had cancer. A tumour on his right auricle bled out into his pericardium. Was a ticking time bomb. Loved that little dog to death and am still not over it.
On second thought, its not a terribly funny story.
