Well - her lungs were so clear last week, and she's got all of her adult teeth in, so the vet said we could go ahead and schedule her to be spayed.
We took her in this morning. Poor thing wasn't allowed to eat since midnight last night. She was a pretty good camper about it this morning.
She'd gained another two ounces, so now she weighs 3 pounds, 12 ounces.
Doc says everything went really well (and I love the way these guys spay - they just remove all of her equipment. Nothing left behind for something to go wrong with).
BUT...... there's more news.
Turns out the "blistering" in her left eye is probably a herpes virus. She now has antiviral eye drops (3 times a day for the next few weeks), a cream to remove the excess liquid (4 times a day for the next year or so), and 75mg of Lysine a day (which somehow increases the effectiveness of the antiviral).
AND.......
She developed a skin problem on the side of her neck that we thought was a scratch that was getting infected. When the vet saw her last week for her last lung worm shot, he thought it might be a different type of parasite, and we'd know by this week depending upon how it developed. It didn't develop as expected, so he took a biopsy while she was sedated for the spay. We'll have the results soon (tomorrow? the next few days?) - but he now thinks it might be eosinophilic granuloma complex, which is apparently some type of allergic reaction to either some type of parasite, food, or frequently just an unknown source. I don't know how it gets treated - he had another surgery waiting for him, and we don't have the biopsy results yet, so we didn't keep him on the phone.
Good news & Bad news!
Poor little girl, she's been through so much!!!!!! But her lungs are still clear.....
We took her in this morning. Poor thing wasn't allowed to eat since midnight last night. She was a pretty good camper about it this morning.
She'd gained another two ounces, so now she weighs 3 pounds, 12 ounces.
Doc says everything went really well (and I love the way these guys spay - they just remove all of her equipment. Nothing left behind for something to go wrong with).
BUT...... there's more news.
Turns out the "blistering" in her left eye is probably a herpes virus. She now has antiviral eye drops (3 times a day for the next few weeks), a cream to remove the excess liquid (4 times a day for the next year or so), and 75mg of Lysine a day (which somehow increases the effectiveness of the antiviral).
AND.......
She developed a skin problem on the side of her neck that we thought was a scratch that was getting infected. When the vet saw her last week for her last lung worm shot, he thought it might be a different type of parasite, and we'd know by this week depending upon how it developed. It didn't develop as expected, so he took a biopsy while she was sedated for the spay. We'll have the results soon (tomorrow? the next few days?) - but he now thinks it might be eosinophilic granuloma complex, which is apparently some type of allergic reaction to either some type of parasite, food, or frequently just an unknown source. I don't know how it gets treated - he had another surgery waiting for him, and we don't have the biopsy results yet, so we didn't keep him on the phone.
Good news & Bad news!
Poor little girl, she's been through so much!!!!!! But her lungs are still clear.....