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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: animaniactoo Date: August 13, 2025, 10:09 am
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more mojo inbound!
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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: Aardtacha Date: August 13, 2025, 4:50 pm
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Maybe we'll just put her in the night kennel right now...
She is home. The difference between getting her from the garage
to the house this afternoon and yesterday was night and day.
She practically dragged me from the vet to the car and was
trying to jump into the back before I could get the liftgate up.
So much for no running/jumping. She whined until DH finished
paying and picked up her meds. She barely let him get in the
car before she was trying to climb into his lap and whining to
get going.
She did wait patiently-ish for us to get out of the car
ourselves and to open the liftgate. Then she hopped down and
dragged the leash out of DH's hand, but fortunately was just
rushing ahead of him to get to the door. She is now in her
daytime kennel eating the rest of her sister's breakfast and
shoving the sides of the cage around.
Like her matching bald patches?
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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: northbayteky Date: August 13, 2025, 4:55 pm
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Sounds like she's maybe getting used to car rides? Sending mojo
for a peaceful night.
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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: Aardtacha Date: August 14, 2025, 12:45 pm
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Night was good, thanks for the mojo. We definitely made the
switch to the night kennel for her anyway, and although she was
sacked out pretty peacefully at 5:45 this AM I was glad that we
had. She'd spent much of yesterday afternoon trying to find a
comfy position.
While not acting as scary-puny feeling yesterday than the day
before (after the very first treatment in the sequence), she
apparently tapped out all her energy in her eagerness to get
home and we had very short walks to the back yard for a quick
potty break and back to our kennel. Today she is not moving as
stiffly as she had been, but she isn't interested in much more
than a brief pass around the back for a relief break and then
she wants back in. Thank goodness it's miserably warm out, so
neither girl wants out too terribly much.
If it had to happen, I guess it's best this happened in the
hottest part of the year. Trying to keep Lena calm and quiet
during prime running about weather would be horrible for
everyone!
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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: Aardtacha Date: September 6, 2025, 4:32 pm
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It's 4:27. Dinner isn't until 5:30 or 6 depending on how hot it
is out. Lena has just five minutes ago come in from an extended
sniff/potty break and she is already whining and doing the heavy
sigh routine. Every few minutes (like clockwork) she give off a
basso profundo groan of agonizing starvation.
She's gained 3 pounds in the last 2 months. No one is buying
her "I'm starved and neglected" shtick.
With luck only 3 more weeks. With bad luck, 5 more weeks.
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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: animaniactoo Date: September 6, 2025, 4:57 pm
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Dear Lena: It seems you need a new acting method....
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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: Aardtacha Date: October 2, 2025, 11:30 am
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So. To the vet for a modified Knott test, but the person I
talked to when I called in was so busy being offended that I'd
called to get in line (which is what they told me to do with
Lena because of the seizure thing) that she didn't listen to
anything. She insisted that "her" techs usually had a very
short wait and that I could just bring Lena in and it'd be a
half-hour at the longest. I again mentioned the SEIZURES that
she has when she is stressed, and was assured that I could bring
her and call when I got there to tell the techs that she'd
already had her trazadone and they would wait 10 minutes and
then I could bring her in.
Yeah. Not impressed with this one. But because I was making no
headway getting her to understand MODIFIED KNOTT TEST and
SEIZURE issues, we drugged our girl up and hauled her in.
There, we were told we were next for the techs so we could just
bring her right in. And we got a whopping 15 feet from the door
and the seizure struck. Someone going in from the other side of
the parking lot apparently saw it and said something to them
because suddenly we had a gurney, two techs and (maybe?) the new
vet. So they did the blood draw out there in the lot and we
loaded Lena back into the car after she recovered. Mr Tacha
paid while I sat in the car with the AC running talking to Lena.
We got home and she practically dragged me into the house so
she could get to her kennel.
Eventually they called to say a) that she had just needed the
modified Knott test, not the full heartworm test that they ran
and b) the full heartworm test is for 6 months after treatment,
so she still showing a faint positive. Come back and test her
again in 6 months.
BUT: She can be off leash in the back yard for short stretches,
we just have to watch her breathing. And she doesn't have to be
in the fully enclosed night kennel -- her standard playpen
kennel is good for at night now.
We can increase the time she's free to move by 10 minutes/week,
and if she's playing with her sister we do need to monitor that
breathing thing some more, but we're officially past the scary
hard part.
Thank goodness, because she's starting to resemble a Vietnamese
Pot Bellied pig.
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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: MidwestmikkiJ Date: October 2, 2025, 12:13 pm
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[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=3600.msg350169#msg350169
date=1759422646]
So. To the vet for a modified Knott test, but the person I
talked to when I called in was so busy being offended that I'd
called to get in line (which is what they told me to do with
Lena because of the seizure thing) that she didn't listen to
anything. She insisted that "her" techs usually had a very
short wait and that I could just bring Lena in and it'd be a
half-hour at the longest. I again mentioned the SEIZURES that
she has when she is stressed, and was assured that I could bring
her and call when I got there to tell the techs that she'd
already had her trazadone and they would wait 10 minutes and
then I could bring her in.
Yeah. Not impressed with this one. But because I was making no
headway getting her to understand MODIFIED KNOTT TEST and
SEIZURE issues, we drugged our girl up and hauled her in.
There, we were told we were next for the techs so we could just
bring her right in. And we got a whopping 15 feet from the door
and the seizure struck. Someone going in from the other side of
the parking lot apparently saw it and said something to them
because suddenly we had a gurney, two techs and (maybe?) the new
vet. So they did the blood draw out there in the lot and we
loaded Lena back into the car after she recovered. Mr Tacha
paid while I sat in the car with the AC running talking to Lena.
We got home and she practically dragged me into the house so
she could get to her kennel.
Eventually they called to say a) that she had just needed the
modified Knott test, not the full heartworm test that they ran
and b) the full heartworm test is for 6 months after treatment,
so she still showing a faint positive. Come back and test her
again in 6 months.
BUT: She can be off leash in the back yard for short stretches,
we just have to watch her breathing. And she doesn't have to be
in the fully enclosed night kennel -- her standard playpen
kennel is good for at night now.
We can increase the time she's free to move by 10 minutes/week,
and if she's playing with her sister we do need to monitor that
breathing thing some more, but we're officially past the scary
hard part.
Thank goodness, because she's starting to resemble a Vietnamese
Pot Bellied pig.
[/quote]
A pox on the person who wouldn’t listen. But yay for Lena
getting to gradually increase her activity. I’d guess gradual
would be enough at first anyway as she redevelops her stamina.
But 10 minutes a week? How do you monitor that?
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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: Thetis099 Date: October 2, 2025, 12:17 pm
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[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=3600.msg350169#msg350169
date=1759422646]
So. To the vet for a modified Knott test, but the person I
talked to when I called in was so busy being offended that I'd
called to get in line (which is what they told me to do with
Lena because of the seizure thing) that she didn't listen to
anything. She insisted that "her" techs usually had a very
short wait and that I could just bring Lena in and it'd be a
half-hour at the longest. I again mentioned the SEIZURES that
she has when she is stressed, and was assured that I could bring
her and call when I got there to tell the techs that she'd
already had her trazadone and they would wait 10 minutes and
then I could bring her in.
Yeah. Not impressed with this one. But because I was making no
headway getting her to understand MODIFIED KNOTT TEST and
SEIZURE issues, we drugged our girl up and hauled her in.
There, we were told we were next for the techs so we could just
bring her right in. And we got a whopping 15 feet from the door
and the seizure struck. Someone going in from the other side of
the parking lot apparently saw it and said something to them
because suddenly we had a gurney, two techs and (maybe?) the new
vet. So they did the blood draw out there in the lot and we
loaded Lena back into the car after she recovered. Mr Tacha
paid while I sat in the car with the AC running talking to Lena.
We got home and she practically dragged me into the house so
she could get to her kennel.
Eventually they called to say a) that she had just needed the
modified Knott test, not the full heartworm test that they ran
and b) the full heartworm test is for 6 months after treatment,
so she still showing a faint positive. Come back and test her
again in 6 months.
BUT: She can be off leash in the back yard for short stretches,
we just have to watch her breathing. And she doesn't have to be
in the fully enclosed night kennel -- her standard playpen
kennel is good for at night now.
We can increase the time she's free to move by 10 minutes/week,
and if she's playing with her sister we do need to monitor that
breathing thing some more, but we're officially past the scary
hard part.
Thank goodness, because she's starting to resemble a Vietnamese
Pot Bellied pig.
[/quote]
I am happy to read Lena gets to be a bit less constrained and
more active, but I am so sorry you had difficulties with the
staff and Lena had a seizure. Sending doggo mojo for Lena and
doggo parent mojo for you and Mr. Tacha - all of the work you
have both put in to take care of Lena is nothing short of
heroic.
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Re: Lena has heartworm and seizures
By: Aardtacha Date: October 2, 2025, 12:52 pm
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[quote author=MidwestmikkiJ link=topic=3600.msg350181#msg350181
date=1759425204]
[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=3600.msg350169#msg350169
date=1759422646]
So. To the vet for a modified Knott test, but the person I
talked to when I called in was so busy being offended that I'd
called to get in line (which is what they told me to do with
Lena because of the seizure thing) that she didn't listen to
anything. She insisted that "her" techs usually had a very
short wait and that I could just bring Lena in and it'd be a
half-hour at the longest. I again mentioned the SEIZURES that
she has when she is stressed, and was assured that I could bring
her and call when I got there to tell the techs that she'd
already had her trazadone and they would wait 10 minutes and
then I could bring her in.
Yeah. Not impressed with this one. But because I was making no
headway getting her to understand MODIFIED KNOTT TEST and
SEIZURE issues, we drugged our girl up and hauled her in.
There, we were told we were next for the techs so we could just
bring her right in. And we got a whopping 15 feet from the door
and the seizure struck. Someone going in from the other side of
the parking lot apparently saw it and said something to them
because suddenly we had a gurney, two techs and (maybe?) the new
vet. So they did the blood draw out there in the lot and we
loaded Lena back into the car after she recovered. Mr Tacha
paid while I sat in the car with the AC running talking to Lena.
We got home and she practically dragged me into the house so
she could get to her kennel.
Eventually they called to say a) that she had just needed the
modified Knott test, not the full heartworm test that they ran
and b) the full heartworm test is for 6 months after treatment,
so she still showing a faint positive. Come back and test her
again in 6 months.
BUT: She can be off leash in the back yard for short stretches,
we just have to watch her breathing. And she doesn't have to be
in the fully enclosed night kennel -- her standard playpen
kennel is good for at night now.
We can increase the time she's free to move by 10 minutes/week,
and if she's playing with her sister we do need to monitor that
breathing thing some more, but we're officially past the scary
hard part.
Thank goodness, because she's starting to resemble a Vietnamese
Pot Bellied pig.
[/quote]
A pox on the person who wouldn’t listen. But yay for Lena
getting to gradually increase her activity. I’d guess gradual
would be enough at first anyway as she redevelops her stamina.
But 10 minutes a week? How do you monitor that?
[/quote]
It's usually so hot out that the girls don't want to stay
outside more than about 10 minutes anyway. Oddly, she still
gets excited when we say "Inside" even when she's on her lead
sniffing. That part is no problem.
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