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To: Salamander

Checking in to hear news on Halla.

How did she handle her first big storm?


142 posted on 11/02/2012 4:38:10 PM PDT by TheMom (Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts!)
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To: TheMom

She didn’t even care about it.
We just got some heavy rain and that was it.

Her update from her regular vet visit today:

They didn’t do the CBC because it’s “too soon” and she’s thriving, eating and drinking and she got no puppy shots because it would be too hard on her system.
The vet noted some nystagmus which seems to be transient but at first scared her to death and also us.
She noted it when Halla was half asleep but felt better about because it seems to go away when Halla is awake and alert.

She’s concerned about Halla walking ‘drunkenly’ when tired.

She said to wait on the neuro eval/MRI until Halla is 10 weeks old to see if anything changes in the meantime *and* because the head injury/brain trauma damage is already said and done so she’ll always have the slightly odd shaped skull.

I worry about the nystagmus for fear she feels sick or dizzy when it happens.

I worry about the gait issues in case it never goes away.

I worry about everything, actually.

I won’t know the results of her fecal test until Monday because they ‘send it out’.
Never heard of that being done but it includes a coccidia test.

I’m only halfway to our money needs.

Gonna try and set up a Facebook donation thing in hopes of raising the rest.

Halla seems happy and is becoming a little terror, playing, biting and climbing over us.

The vet said that because she’s had no more seizure type events that it doesn’t mean she won’t ever, again.

That was real discouraging...:(

I don’t know what else to do for her in the meantime.

We’re loving on her and trying to keep her happy.

It breaks my heart that she might not ever be able to play with her half-brother Odin...or even my other two smaller girls.

I sincerely hate those damn ‘breeders’.

They’ve already had animal control and the AKC called on them and they skated out of those by providing ‘minimum requirements’ for their poor dogs.

[and your envelope came...thank you ~so~ much, ‘Mom’]


143 posted on 11/02/2012 6:52:37 PM PDT by Salamander (Wounded, old and dangerous.)
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