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Okay so here I am, back again. Now I know I have no life - I've been updating this way too much.
So I my coping skills kicked into high gear and I've been researching the internet on collapsing tracheas and heart disease. At least now I'll know what's going on when Jasper and I go back to the vet, and I can ask her some quasi-intelligent questions. My number 1 concern is going to be about how far everything's progressed. As it turns out, as long as it's been caught early on, his outlook will be fairly good. The only bad thing is that one way to control heart disease is through weight reduction (exercise), but with a collapsing trachea you don't want to exercise them too much. So poor Jasper will have to undergo weight reduction through solely a diet change.
One thing that worries me is that one symptom of heart disease is an enlarged abdomen... And the vet mentioned that the x-rays showed he had a large abdomen - so large that said, "You probably fed him right before he came in here for his appointment, didn't you?" And I was like, "Uh, no... he hasn't eaten since 5:30 this morning," and this was at 4:00 p.m. He usually eats between 2:30 and 3:00 pm, but that's when his appointment was so I was going to wait until after we got back home. So his belly was pretty well empty, yet his abdoment was apparently prouncely large. So I'm going to bring that up tomorrow morning.
Anyways, I've been crying all afternoon so I'm worn out. I tried to drink a "bahama mama" from the fridge, but I'm not liking it too much. Is it possible to just not like the taste of alcohol? Anyways, I'm for real now - good night.
So I my coping skills kicked into high gear and I've been researching the internet on collapsing tracheas and heart disease. At least now I'll know what's going on when Jasper and I go back to the vet, and I can ask her some quasi-intelligent questions. My number 1 concern is going to be about how far everything's progressed. As it turns out, as long as it's been caught early on, his outlook will be fairly good. The only bad thing is that one way to control heart disease is through weight reduction (exercise), but with a collapsing trachea you don't want to exercise them too much. So poor Jasper will have to undergo weight reduction through solely a diet change.
One thing that worries me is that one symptom of heart disease is an enlarged abdomen... And the vet mentioned that the x-rays showed he had a large abdomen - so large that said, "You probably fed him right before he came in here for his appointment, didn't you?" And I was like, "Uh, no... he hasn't eaten since 5:30 this morning," and this was at 4:00 p.m. He usually eats between 2:30 and 3:00 pm, but that's when his appointment was so I was going to wait until after we got back home. So his belly was pretty well empty, yet his abdoment was apparently prouncely large. So I'm going to bring that up tomorrow morning.
Anyways, I've been crying all afternoon so I'm worn out. I tried to drink a "bahama mama" from the fridge, but I'm not liking it too much. Is it possible to just not like the taste of alcohol? Anyways, I'm for real now - good night.