Updates yet again
Nov. 29th, 2011 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideHaku had a seizure today, but other than that he's doing about the same. Here's the weird thing. While I was at work today, at around 2:30, I had just started my appointment and I thought, "I wonder if Haku has a seizure today, will they check his ekg afterwards, to see if it affects his heart?" When I was visiting him tonight and they told me he'd had "a small seizure, just like you said he would last night," I said, "Was it some time between like 2:30 and 3?" And his primary vet, Awesome Lady Doctor was like, "OMG, it was 2:30. How in the world?!" But they gave him IV valium and it stopped the seizure before it even really got started.
No further heart complications (*touch wood!*) and his leg seems to be getting along at the normal pace.
I asked a crapton of questions. Like, are future seizures something to worry about with this new heart thing? (No, because saluki hearts are built for endurance and this isn't an electrical problem,) what else can cause a sudden heart murmur (the sudden drop in heart rate during surgery – it doesn't always have to be valvular, which I didn't know,) and other stuff that I can hardly remember asking right now. I do remember that I liked all his answers, though. They're still going to do the echo on Saturday and then I can take him home that afternoon. One thing the vet assured me of is that he's not anticipating finding something terrible. He said that anything they find on Saturday is probably doable. That was a big relief!
What wasn't a big relief was the new estimate for the bill. But let's not even talk about that.
No further heart complications (*touch wood!*) and his leg seems to be getting along at the normal pace.
I asked a crapton of questions. Like, are future seizures something to worry about with this new heart thing? (No, because saluki hearts are built for endurance and this isn't an electrical problem,) what else can cause a sudden heart murmur (the sudden drop in heart rate during surgery – it doesn't always have to be valvular, which I didn't know,) and other stuff that I can hardly remember asking right now. I do remember that I liked all his answers, though. They're still going to do the echo on Saturday and then I can take him home that afternoon. One thing the vet assured me of is that he's not anticipating finding something terrible. He said that anything they find on Saturday is probably doable. That was a big relief!
What wasn't a big relief was the new estimate for the bill. But let's not even talk about that.
