I do not have a St. Patrick’s Day hangover. Despite my surname having once been Patrick, I don’t celebrate the day. Oh I do have a hunk of corned beef to cook up this weekend, but I’m thinking deli corned beef on rye with a side of coleslaw. Anyway, Patrick as a surname is not Irish, it’s Scottish. You twit.
The diagnosis is in: 1. Left-sided congestive heart failure-fluid buildup in the lung secondary to long-standing heart disease. 2. Degenerative mitral valve disease with moderate to severe valvular insufficiency and moderate valvular prolapse leading to left side of heart becoming severely enlarged. 3. Degenerative tricuspid valve disease with trace insufficiency and moderate valvular prolapse.
The patient: Molly Gassner
A thousand dollars later, we came back from the vet cardiologist with three bottles of pills. She is now down to taking only two of the meds, because the third gave her diarrhea which in turn made her a kind of Jackson Pollack of the poop (see photo).
Most of this was totally out of the blue. A vet heard the heart murmur about a year and a half ago, but the xrays then showed no enlargement. Her heart was never an issue during her illness last year. I took her to the vet the other day because she had a fatty growth on her chest…oh, and by the way, she’s coughing occasionally.
Don’t even ask me how I feel.
And on a lighter note: the Jane-bashing at Elk Grove Patch continues, but that’s good news. For one, any comment is a good comment in the world of on-line journalism. And too (two), I’m getting inured to the hostility, which is a blessing for my psyche.
And now I must go figure out how to get teeny tiny little plops of poop out of the carpetS in FOUR rooms. Any suggestions?
Popularity: unranked [?]
Tagged as:
comments,
heart disease,
hostility,
molly,
online journalism,
quotidian,
veterinary medicine
MidLifeBloggers
All Top Stories 
The Quotidian Blech
The diagnosis is in: 1. Left-sided congestive heart failure-fluid buildup in the lung secondary to long-standing heart disease. 2. Degenerative mitral valve disease with moderate to severe valvular insufficiency and moderate valvular prolapse leading to left side of heart becoming severely enlarged. 3. Degenerative tricuspid valve disease with trace insufficiency and moderate valvular prolapse.
The patient: Molly Gassner
A thousand dollars later, we came back from the vet cardiologist with three bottles of pills. She is now down to taking only two of the meds, because the third gave her diarrhea which in turn made her a kind of Jackson Pollack of the poop (see photo).
Most of this was totally out of the blue. A vet heard the heart murmur about a year and a half ago, but the xrays then showed no enlargement. Her heart was never an issue during her illness last year. I took her to the vet the other day because she had a fatty growth on her chest…oh, and by the way, she’s coughing occasionally.
Don’t even ask me how I feel.
And on a lighter note: the Jane-bashing at Elk Grove Patch continues, but that’s good news. For one, any comment is a good comment in the world of on-line journalism. And too (two), I’m getting inured to the hostility, which is a blessing for my psyche.
And now I must go figure out how to get teeny tiny little plops of poop out of the carpetS in FOUR rooms. Any suggestions?
Popularity: unranked [?]
Tagged as: comments, heart disease, hostility, molly, online journalism, quotidian, veterinary medicine