We were off to our local vet early this morning. Joie yelped once before I put her to bed last night, and then twice this morning. She also wouldn’t eat her breakfast. She is not herself. I knew I needed to get her in to see the vet right away.
As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t know Joie’s past history. I don’t know the circumstances of how she went down or how she was treated. I’m not sure if she was actually diagnosed with IVDD at some point also. I do know that she went down in May of 2012. I adopted her in October 2013.
After my vet examined her and given her past history, he feels since the disc issue may not have been properly taken care of when she first went down, it is now causing pressure and pain. Meds may help, but the fact we don’t know what we are exactly dealing with, he felt it best she have a myelogram done. Meds may only mask the problem for awhile and then it could get worse, and then meds would not even help.
Since my local vet does not do myelogram’s it was suggested I call Lakeshore Vet Services, which is about 40-minutes from where I live. Just about a month ago they brought on a neorsurgeon who is well versed in disc disease. I talked with Amy who is the neorsurgeon’s assistant and we will go in for a consult and CT myelogram tomorrow morning at 10:00 am. The CT portion is a newer method that they didn’t do years ago when Frankie went down. From what I understand, the CT myelogram is able to show more in depth slices of the spine, so hopefully we can see what exactly is going on in Joie’s spine.
She is resting comfortably now that I have her home again. Though she still is not interested in eating any food. She will have to stay overnight tomorrow as that is required since they will have to put her under to do the procedure. I pray that all will turn out the best it possibly can for my sweet little Joie.
I know many of you who read my blog have been through this before -sometimes more than once with your little ones. I also know having been through this in a different way with Frankie, that I can take care of Joie as we move forward. I’ll also be refreshing myself and perusing Dodgerslist website today. As I so often talk about in my blog posts, I am doing my best to stay hopeful and know there are many blessings ahead for Joie and I. Please keep Joie in your prayers.