Positive news!
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:19
AM
Subject: Lucy doesn't need surgery
(probably)!
Lucy had her 30 day x-ray today, a little early, and her
bladder stone is
much, much smaller! So the plan is to keep her on
the food (S/D) and the meds
(Clavamox, pred, and some Chinese herbs) and
re-xray her in another 30 days. She
is urinating less frequently and with
less blood, so I think she is more
comfortable (though she never really
acted uncomfortable), but I was not allowing
myself to hope! The vet said
"well, you deserve some good news every once in a
while." My horse
Pepsi is doing worse, and I am still so grieved about
Simon, so I am not
feeling as elated as I should, but I am feeling somewhat elated
and very
grateful about Lucy. I was so scared that getting surgery would
trigger her virus. There is still a small chance that the stone will
not continue
to dissolve all the way, because sometimes the outside is one
kind of stone
and the inside is another, but it dissolved so much that the
vet thinks this is
not the case with her. He thinks she had an infection
and the stone built
around it, which happens sometimes, and which would
make sense in her case
because she is positive and thus prone to
infections and had never had crystals
before.
Michelle
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