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awanderingbard) wrote2024-11-28 02:07 pm
awanderingbard) wrote2024-11-28 02:07 pm
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Revenge of the Tooth Fairy
Greetings, blog readers! I hope you are as well as you can be in these continually stressful times. I’m coming down off of a few weeks of extra stress, and feeling it. You know that place you get into that you’re so stressed, when you’re done being stressed, you just have extra left over stress-momentum and you don’t know what to do with it, so you just sort of sit there feeling anxious for no reason? Yep, coming out of that.
I also think I might have had Covid or the flu, but I am freshly vaxxed, so it was very mild. More just sinus pain/pressure and an achy feeling, with a mild fever. Might be post-exertional malaise if I do in fact have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Not sure, but it seems to be getting better.
Anyway, the main source of my stress was Pax. You remember my post in August about how the Tooth Fairy was very mad at us? Well, I didn’t mention at the time, but in the midst of all of that madness, Pax developed a small growth on his front lower gum. There was something of a saga to find out what it was, and in the end it is benign, but there was a very scary moment on the day of the surgery to remove it when the vets called to say his pre-anesthetic bloodwork showed his ALP (a liver enzyme) was so high it was off the charts, which could indicate Cushing’s or cancer. But it was not cancer, it was a benign bony fibroma, and ALP raises when bone growth occurs, so that could partially explain it. We also talked to the breeder who sent us an article by a vet who found that Scotties tend to have high ALP for no currently known reason, and any disease or process that raises ALP will raise it higher in Scotties than in other breeds. And he’s fine! I mean, he’s busy and hasn’t lost weight and is eating normally, so the vet is not worried and just wants to repeat the bloodwork at some point. It might be very early Cushing's, which is treatable, and it might be nothing.
He also had his teeth cleaned while he was under and three teeth removed, but bounced back with the 11/10 enthusiasm that he always has.
“This is a very healthy dog” is what the vet said.
We also had the follow up to the spot in my mum’s liver they found last year, but this scan showed it was smaller and the liver doctor thinks it might be a sign of her liver healing. Still, between waiting for that and waiting for the histology report about the mass on Pax’s mouth, it’s just been a lot of waiting and thinking and my little anxious, imaginative brain trying to tell me all the reasons why I should be worried.
Now I am very tired.
Anyway, it’s Christmas time and I’m going to embrace that and craft and decorate and sing and be merry and focus on what brings me joy and try not to let the world bring me down. For the Yanks, I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving festivities if you are having them.
Talk to you soon!
I also think I might have had Covid or the flu, but I am freshly vaxxed, so it was very mild. More just sinus pain/pressure and an achy feeling, with a mild fever. Might be post-exertional malaise if I do in fact have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Not sure, but it seems to be getting better.
Anyway, the main source of my stress was Pax. You remember my post in August about how the Tooth Fairy was very mad at us? Well, I didn’t mention at the time, but in the midst of all of that madness, Pax developed a small growth on his front lower gum. There was something of a saga to find out what it was, and in the end it is benign, but there was a very scary moment on the day of the surgery to remove it when the vets called to say his pre-anesthetic bloodwork showed his ALP (a liver enzyme) was so high it was off the charts, which could indicate Cushing’s or cancer. But it was not cancer, it was a benign bony fibroma, and ALP raises when bone growth occurs, so that could partially explain it. We also talked to the breeder who sent us an article by a vet who found that Scotties tend to have high ALP for no currently known reason, and any disease or process that raises ALP will raise it higher in Scotties than in other breeds. And he’s fine! I mean, he’s busy and hasn’t lost weight and is eating normally, so the vet is not worried and just wants to repeat the bloodwork at some point. It might be very early Cushing's, which is treatable, and it might be nothing.
He also had his teeth cleaned while he was under and three teeth removed, but bounced back with the 11/10 enthusiasm that he always has.
“This is a very healthy dog” is what the vet said.
We also had the follow up to the spot in my mum’s liver they found last year, but this scan showed it was smaller and the liver doctor thinks it might be a sign of her liver healing. Still, between waiting for that and waiting for the histology report about the mass on Pax’s mouth, it’s just been a lot of waiting and thinking and my little anxious, imaginative brain trying to tell me all the reasons why I should be worried.
Now I am very tired.
Anyway, it’s Christmas time and I’m going to embrace that and craft and decorate and sing and be merry and focus on what brings me joy and try not to let the world bring me down. For the Yanks, I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving festivities if you are having them.
Talk to you soon!
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Yes, I know it far too well! ***hugs***
I'm glad Pax is ok! Our cat Doofus got oral cancer, and it was awful. If the vet thinks he's healthy, then I imagine he is!
I'm glad your Mom's scan was good.
It can take a long time to come down from all that. I still have leftover anxiety from the hurricanes, even though the season is basically over now.
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