Serious question re my meezer Coco Puff *Update 4/25; Pidge not doing well; post #140

**phesina** · 04-02-2009, 06:48 PM

Prayers and good wishes and healing energy for Coco Puff..

**Medusa** · 04-03-2009, 08:37 AM

It looks like he'll be getting an x-ray of his skull. There doesn't appear to be any improvement in Coco Puff, so he's scheduled for the x-ray on Monday morning. Honestly, I had decided to get the x-ray anyhow, just for my own peace of mind. His deafness may be temporary and his hearing may return when the inflammation subsides but then again, when Dr. Lee said that he wants to be sure that there is no tumor, well, I'm not taking any chances. My Yodie had an ear polyp removed 4 years ago and it's never grown back. Dr. Lee said he's still amazed at that. I quit worrying about it because it was stressing me to think that she could lose her hearing. So now here's Coco Puff and out of the blue, he can't hear. Life is always throwing us curve balls, isn't it?

**kb2yjx** · 04-03-2009, 09:56 AM

Mary!! I am a johnny come lately to your thread!! I am so sorry to read about Coco!!! We just went thru an episode with our oldest Norton. He was sneezing blood. He had several bad teeth and not a tumor!!! I will light a candle for Coco and you, too!!! Sandra

**Catty1** · 04-03-2009, 10:14 AM

I hope the x-ray shows SOMETHING so the mystery can be solved!

The way Coco Puff got his name still makes me smile a bit, however.

Come on back, Raoul Boop!

Mary - going back to a way earlier post, is there any way to check and see if Coco's favourite spots might have mold spores floating around them?

HUGS and healing is coming to Coco Puff!

**Medusa** · 04-03-2009, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by Catty1

I hope the x-ray shows SOMETHING so the mystery can be solved!

The way Coco Puff got his name still makes me smile a bit, however.

Come on back, Raoul Boop!

Mary - going back to a way earlier post, is there any way to check and see if Coco's favourite spots might have mold spores floating around them?

HUGS and healing is coming to Coco Puff!

I wonder if Coco Puff would see the humor in his name. LOL

Interesting that you mentioned his old spots. I thought about that and wondered if possibly he could have picked up the ear infection that Yodie had recently because it's so contagious, although they're not what you'd call good buddies, they don't sleep together or groom each other but anything is possible. I'm going to ask Dr. Lee to be sure to do a culture. As of right now, Coco isn't frequenting his usual spots. He LOVES sleeping inside one of the carriers. That's his bed and he hasn't gone in there since this all began. He hasn't returned to any of his spots; he lies in the middle of the hardwood floor in the hallway and when I walk up to him, he meows loudly. Maybe he's confused and that's why he sits there or maybe he feels safe there, I don't know. I just can't stand it when they abandon their normal routines and I don't have a clue why.

**pomtzu** · 04-03-2009, 11:18 AM

Mary - every time I went to post here, something came up to distract me.

I sure hope that my fur-nephew gets back to normal soon. It's so puzzling both for you and him. I've never had to deal with a deaf pet, just my blind Lhasa years ago, and I really think that was fairly easy to handle once she got used to it.

Hope Dr Lee finds nothing seriously wrong, and that this is just temporary from the sinus problem. If his balance is impaired, it does sound like an ear infection of some sort.

OK - off to take lumpy Sparky back to the vet, and see what's going to be his course of treatment. Hoping surgery can be avoided - it will not make him a happy camper. I worry more about fur kids than I do myself!

**Medusa** · 04-03-2009, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by pomtzu

Mary - every time I went to post here, something came up to distract me.

I sure hope that my fur-nephew gets back to normal soon. It's so puzzling both for you and him. I've never had to deal with a deaf pet, just my blind Lhasa years ago, and I really think that was fairly easy to handle once she got used to it.

Hope Dr Lee finds nothing seriously wrong, and that this is just temporary from the sinus problem. If his balance is impaired, it does sound like an ear infection of some sort.

OK - off to take lumpy Sparky back to the vet, and see what's going to be his course of treatment. Hoping surgery can be avoided - it will not make him a happy camper. I worry more about fur kids than I do myself!

Gosh Ellie, I don't visit the Dog side often. Email me and let me know what's going on w/our Sparky, doggone it anyhow. (Sorry. LOL)