Today's Keyboard Smash
Jan. 12th, 2021 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksFuck yes! And let me lead in by saying, my standards are so rock-bottom low for me to consider this a "fuck yes" day. And yet. And still.
Doggo has been pronounced better on the skin situation. She gets to stop taking the allergy meds, and she's nearly done with the antibiotics. Bloodwork is still pending, but that's just for adjusting dosage on the new Cushing's meds, so I'm not stressed there.
The seizures are, ironically, something of a good sign! Because seizures means it's probably a tumor on the pituitary, rather than the adrenal gland, which makes it more likely to be benign. I mean, we're still not going to go through the rigamarole of testing to determine for sure, because it won't make a practical difference, but hey! Less likely my dog has horrible cancer! And if need be, there's a medication she can go on to treat the seizures that isn't as absolutely brutal as the phenobarbital we had to use for the epileptic dog I grew up with.
(I am reminded suddenly that my dog is hardly unique in her medical issues. The only dog we've had that didn't have wild health issues was the fourth mutt, and he arrived to us with a foxtail working its way out of his ribcage via massive infection, so he just got his in early and called it a day. God, I miss those dogs.)
All of this qualifies as better than I ever hoped for. So. Fuck yes.
Doggo has been pronounced better on the skin situation. She gets to stop taking the allergy meds, and she's nearly done with the antibiotics. Bloodwork is still pending, but that's just for adjusting dosage on the new Cushing's meds, so I'm not stressed there.
The seizures are, ironically, something of a good sign! Because seizures means it's probably a tumor on the pituitary, rather than the adrenal gland, which makes it more likely to be benign. I mean, we're still not going to go through the rigamarole of testing to determine for sure, because it won't make a practical difference, but hey! Less likely my dog has horrible cancer! And if need be, there's a medication she can go on to treat the seizures that isn't as absolutely brutal as the phenobarbital we had to use for the epileptic dog I grew up with.
(I am reminded suddenly that my dog is hardly unique in her medical issues. The only dog we've had that didn't have wild health issues was the fourth mutt, and he arrived to us with a foxtail working its way out of his ribcage via massive infection, so he just got his in early and called it a day. God, I miss those dogs.)
All of this qualifies as better than I ever hoped for. So. Fuck yes.
