Cyanide Poisoning in 3 of my dogs.
Almost lost 3 of my dogs this weekend. Still not out of the woods with one of them. :( One dog went down completely on Thursday. Because only one eye dilated the ER "insisted" it was a brain tumor....
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With all due respect for the vet. Low and long exposure to cyanide is VERY difficult to diagnose especially if you don't have the source glaring you in the face.
Don't forget I just moved here and the clinic is new to me. The hardest part of moving was leaving behind my vet of 30 years. :(
==BUT==that said
1. When I first moved here I met a person who had just had her dog diagnosed with a brain tumor. No real symptoms but a slight seizure. She euthanized on the spot.
2. Two weeks later met another person who's dog was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
3. The following week sitting in this same vet's office an elderly lady told me her dog was diagnosed with a brain tumor and asked what me if I knew what long term prognosis was.
The common denominator of these three dogs? ALL were diagnosed by SAME vet clinic! Can you spell cluster? That should have sent up a flag to this clinic.
When the same clinic vet diagnosed MY dog with brain tumor that night in the ER I asked him how many does he see?
He said he sees 1 or 2 a week. :E
From what I've read only 10% have brain tumors. % Doesn't fit what they are seeing and diagnosing as one.
Sooooo, can you all see why I couldn't buy the brain tumor diagnoses that night. :W
That and because I knew some of the symptoms didn't fit.
THANK GOD I have several dogs that ended up presenting with the same symptoms! Sadly Most pet owners don't. That proved we needed to look in another direction.
I'd love to see their client's files on all these brain tumor dogs and what the long term results where on the ones' that weren't euthanized. Because if the toxic source was not removed it would be ongoing and misdiagnosed.
I have the pens completely hermetically wrapped in sun shade and not one stick, leaf, shoot, berry stone is in that pen!
Every day now each dog is returning to normal and then some.AND like I said the 15 yr old timer looks like he has gained back 8 years of his life! All just from not chewing those darn leaves.
Don't forget I just moved here and the clinic is new to me. The hardest part of moving was leaving behind my vet of 30 years. :(
==BUT==that said
1. When I first moved here I met a person who had just had her dog diagnosed with a brain tumor. No real symptoms but a slight seizure. She euthanized on the spot.
2. Two weeks later met another person who's dog was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
3. The following week sitting in this same vet's office an elderly lady told me her dog was diagnosed with a brain tumor and asked what me if I knew what long term prognosis was.
The common denominator of these three dogs? ALL were diagnosed by SAME vet clinic! Can you spell cluster? That should have sent up a flag to this clinic.
When the same clinic vet diagnosed MY dog with brain tumor that night in the ER I asked him how many does he see?
He said he sees 1 or 2 a week. :E
From what I've read only 10% have brain tumors. % Doesn't fit what they are seeing and diagnosing as one.
Sooooo, can you all see why I couldn't buy the brain tumor diagnoses that night. :W
That and because I knew some of the symptoms didn't fit.
THANK GOD I have several dogs that ended up presenting with the same symptoms! Sadly Most pet owners don't. That proved we needed to look in another direction.
I'd love to see their client's files on all these brain tumor dogs and what the long term results where on the ones' that weren't euthanized. Because if the toxic source was not removed it would be ongoing and misdiagnosed.
I have the pens completely hermetically wrapped in sun shade and not one stick, leaf, shoot, berry stone is in that pen!
Every day now each dog is returning to normal and then some.AND like I said the 15 yr old timer looks like he has gained back 8 years of his life! All just from not chewing those darn leaves.
