Unexpected trip

Today I made an unexpected trip to the veterinarian's office

with Cleopatra.

For the past couple of days she has been breathing a

bit heavy, but for an older dog, when it’s REALLY hot outside,

we thought it was just the heat.

Last night, Kenny even took her in the pool to cool off.

 

She doesn’t do any swimming, she just likes to

be held.

Looks pretty relaxed doesn’t she?

No, we’ve never tried putting her on one of

the floating mattresses…..

….but she does enjoy, when she is feeling well,

running around the pool, while we are in it, barking

at us!

Of course she likes being dried off as well.

I woke up at 4am this morning because I heard her

STILL breathing heavy

Heavy,

shallow,

and

fast.

Of course, since I work in a cardiology area, my first

thought is that she has congestive heart failure….

she’s older, 8, almost 9…..

Dr. Rudd

listened to her heart and said her heart sounded fine.

She then listened to her lungs and said she could only hear the

tops of her lungs filling, not the bottoms of them.

She was also running a fever.

She wanted to keep her for some x-rays and possibly some lab work

to find out what was going on.

I came home and took Lonnie for a walk, while it was still fairly cool

outside…..best to keep busy or else my mind starts to wander and

start thinking of lung cancer or some other malady that could

be causing Cleopatra’s problems.

Dr. Rudd called back and said her lungs looked fine on the chest x-rays,

but they took abdominal x-rays and they showed that she had a golf ball

size stone in her bladder.

She also has a urinary tract infection……

Cleopatra is home on antibiotics, pain meds and liver meds, because she also

had an elevated liver enzyme.

Dr. Cook (who removed Cleopatra’s cyst back in June)

will be doing Cleopatra’s surgery on Monday and hopefully

she’ll be feeling much better

after her stone removal.