Well my golden oldies are having a hell of a time at the moment 🙁
A couple of months ago 8 yr old Tila had surgery to repair her cruciate ligament, 5 weeks after surgery she broke the same leg! She had more surgery to fix that but since then she has had nothing but bother with infections and reactions to it so in another 10 days she goes back in to have the plate used to fix her broken leg removed.
11 yr old Lucy went in for surgery on a nasty lump on her leg and luckily we did pre-op bloods and saw issues with her liver function. A few blood tests, xrays and ultrasound later she has been diagnosed with arthritis of the spine, mass in her spleen, early liver disease and cataracts in both eyes. They joys of getting old ::)
Didn’t think much more could go wrong until I took Benji (also 11yrs) to work to keep Lucy company for her check up and one thing led to another and now he has just been diagnosed as hypothyroid.
Thank god for insurance! Trouble I have now is I only have a year for each condition…… worst mistake ever! I rant on about life time insurance to clients at work but this just shows how important it is. Two out of four dogs will now be on lifetime meds……… Thank god I work at a vets too 😀
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