Remi's Results

Sorry I'm a bit behind! I'm going to update on my experiences in a couple steps, so that y'all don't get bored :) So on Thursday we took Rem over to Doc's office to get checked out for her strange urinary incontinence issue. We did x-rays to look for bladder stones (which were suspicious), and an ultrasound to confirm/reject. We couldn't find anything, which was very good, and we also got a shot with her hips in it, which was also nice. Since she is my dog, I can actually show them to you! We then drew her blood and Doc told me that he thought she had a common problem among dogs her age who have been spayed, wherein they leak only when they are sleeping. This made sense when coupled with the evidence that we have seen, and he prescribed us diethylstilbestrol.It came in today, so Jared is going to go pick it up. After seeing how bad her hips are, we are getting her right on Cosequin DS (something we had talked about for awhile but put off due to the expense). She could really use the surgery where they cut off the head of the femur, but the price and the fact that it would be both hips is just too much for us to be able to do. The breeder was originally supposed to have it done for us, but it just never happened. Hopefully in a few years I will have saved it up before it is too late.

Also, I got to draw her blood! Since she was my dog I was allowed to, and Doc instructed me. I felt kinda bad because I had to stab her a couple times before I got in the vein, but it just made me want to learn how to do it right, and get some more practice!

I know I have a huge bill coming, but it isn't as much as it would have been if we had taken her to an animal hospital, and it was worth it to make sure there wasn't anything bad going on. We also got a really nice look at all of her organs and were assured that she is very healthy, minus the hips.

Here are her X-rays:

From web-dvm.net

You can see her badly shaped hip cups in this view.