Amy has been past due on her annual so I made her an appointment for this morning and scheduled Giz in since she hasn't been in a long time, usually just to ride along and keep Amy company. I had scheduled her last year but when the kennels came out, she ran and hid and I couldn't find her so she didn't get to go...
Being smarter this year, I have learned to leave the kennels out and I put one in the bathroom yesterday KNOWING what a potty pal she is and it worked like a charm. Everything went well until he listened to her heart. She has a heart murmur/cardiomyopathy? I almost started crying right there. He said it is a grade 3 which is serious... I think he said on a scale of 1 to 6, she is a 3..... (All this worry about Amy and it was Giz who is wose off?) I have to take her for a day and leave her so they can do blood work and other tests to try to find the cause, then possiably have to send her to LSU to the heart specialist there. I am SO outdone at this news. So blown away. He said the echo in her heart is pretty loud and the graduating LUS vet student agreed with him on that and it being a grade 3.
It is time to call on all my PT friends again. Anyone of you have any experience with this? What do I need to know? How bad is it? I am not up on this at ALL but am going off to search the web for what I can find...
The good news is, this new vet that had joined my vets staff HAS experience with CH, He has a friend with one that is a whole lot worse than Amy and he asked me a lot of questions about Amy. Does she play? How does she play? Does she get around good, does she eat good? What odd things she might do? He said Amy is in good shape!
I had Giz microchiped while there... Two more to go! I want all of mine done beacuse of what I learned during hurricane Katrina.
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