Zetahra Update
The fecal egg count showed up nothing. We tested both Dakota and Zetahra and not a single thing that looked like an egg. We dewormed today to be on the safe side, especially since we flubbed doing it thia Spring (what an idiot...). So I get to watch the piles and see if we show up with any dead adults.
Ruby twarted my careful planning, though. She and Charm-N both take a syringe and thensome because they are 1800+. I did the firat one and dialed in the 750 for the second one, squirted it in and she promptly balled it up and spat it right back out. ARG! All in all I ended up 250 shy to do Panda's dose where I should have been about 500lbs over. We went with the Quest Plus which is Praziquantel/Moxidectrin if I remember right, mostly because it will get the encysted strongyles too and I don't think I have ever used that class before. I can see why too because it's expensive! It was $170 for ten syringes to do eight head (which would have been nine had Ruby not pulled her little trick!). Dover was having a sale, but waiting for it to deliver was another thing pkua ahipping and the fact the sale price was good for the first six only. The non-sale price was still $4 less than the place we picked them up from, but the lady over the phone had quoted me $11 and she was apparently looking at the wrong tag *grump.* So rather than the 19 mile one-way trip going to waste I bought them plus some probiotics because Z has been a little loose since starting the Red Cell.
This morning she was 59 (58 or 60 depending on where you wanted to count the last beat. A small victory! She has a good amoubt of edema still in her chest area and on either side of her sternum.
Chatham suggested starting to walk her twice a day and using some liniment on the edema. He said 5-10 minutes depending on how she tolerates it. We did ten this morning and she walked out pretty well. She was 71 right after the walk and after hosing and liniment and 10-15 minutes she was back down to 64, which has been her low the last two weeks (except for the odd one a week ago Saturday).
I was going to walk her this evening, but a storm blew in (FINALLY!) and it's raining. As it was I checked her pulse in the rain and I don't remember what it was, but I wrote it down. It was low, but not as low as this morning. She has been running around 68 in the evenings, but I think it was 64 this time.
We're going to pull blood Thursday and see where we are with her anemia. Chatham also suggested getting an ultrasound of her heart to see if anything else is going on there that could be affecting her recovery. He also suggested an EKG if that was inconclusive.
Here's praying for answers (and maybe a spontaneous recovery).
Ruby twarted my careful planning, though. She and Charm-N both take a syringe and thensome because they are 1800+. I did the firat one and dialed in the 750 for the second one, squirted it in and she promptly balled it up and spat it right back out. ARG! All in all I ended up 250 shy to do Panda's dose where I should have been about 500lbs over. We went with the Quest Plus which is Praziquantel/Moxidectrin if I remember right, mostly because it will get the encysted strongyles too and I don't think I have ever used that class before. I can see why too because it's expensive! It was $170 for ten syringes to do eight head (which would have been nine had Ruby not pulled her little trick!). Dover was having a sale, but waiting for it to deliver was another thing pkua ahipping and the fact the sale price was good for the first six only. The non-sale price was still $4 less than the place we picked them up from, but the lady over the phone had quoted me $11 and she was apparently looking at the wrong tag *grump.* So rather than the 19 mile one-way trip going to waste I bought them plus some probiotics because Z has been a little loose since starting the Red Cell.
This morning she was 59 (58 or 60 depending on where you wanted to count the last beat. A small victory! She has a good amoubt of edema still in her chest area and on either side of her sternum.
Chatham suggested starting to walk her twice a day and using some liniment on the edema. He said 5-10 minutes depending on how she tolerates it. We did ten this morning and she walked out pretty well. She was 71 right after the walk and after hosing and liniment and 10-15 minutes she was back down to 64, which has been her low the last two weeks (except for the odd one a week ago Saturday).
I was going to walk her this evening, but a storm blew in (FINALLY!) and it's raining. As it was I checked her pulse in the rain and I don't remember what it was, but I wrote it down. It was low, but not as low as this morning. She has been running around 68 in the evenings, but I think it was 64 this time.
We're going to pull blood Thursday and see where we are with her anemia. Chatham also suggested getting an ultrasound of her heart to see if anything else is going on there that could be affecting her recovery. He also suggested an EKG if that was inconclusive.
Here's praying for answers (and maybe a spontaneous recovery).