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Murry
The night before last he didn't want to eat, and had been walking poorly, quite sudden since earlier in the day he was at his local cafe harassing people for peanut butter cookie crumbs. That night he was restless all night and even resting his breathing was very fast and shallow, punctuated with an occasional dry cough. Yesterday morning he was still walking poorly and wouldn't eat. I called the vet right away and told them that he was having difficulty breathing. They told me I could bring him right away. We got in a cab and were there half an hour later. We have used the one vet all his life so he knows Murry well. Stethescope, blood tests and x ray and a few tearful minutes later he sat down to explain Murry's enlarged heart and congestive heart failure to me. Now Murry is on a diuretic, an ACE inhibitor (enalapril) and pimobendan. We are hoping he will get through these next few days with a reduction of the pulmonary edema and blood pressure. If that goes well he could have a pretty normal and regular life span with maintenance meds. Still he wont eat his regular food, which is wellness kibble, a tablespoon of plain greek yogurt with his glucosamine mixed in, and 11 sliced blue berries. He did eat some leftover scalloped potato and the whites of 2 hard boiled eggs. later he ate some crusts of dry toast.
I am not prepared to deal with having two potentially terminal patients in the house, but you never know which way the wind will blow. When the winds blow weird you sail in a zig zag.
The night before last he didn't want to eat, and had been walking poorly, quite sudden since earlier in the day he was at his local cafe harassing people for peanut butter cookie crumbs. That night he was restless all night and even resting his breathing was very fast and shallow, punctuated with an occasional dry cough. Yesterday morning he was still walking poorly and wouldn't eat. I called the vet right away and told them that he was having difficulty breathing. They told me I could bring him right away. We got in a cab and were there half an hour later. We have used the one vet all his life so he knows Murry well. Stethescope, blood tests and x ray and a few tearful minutes later he sat down to explain Murry's enlarged heart and congestive heart failure to me. Now Murry is on a diuretic, an ACE inhibitor (enalapril) and pimobendan. We are hoping he will get through these next few days with a reduction of the pulmonary edema and blood pressure. If that goes well he could have a pretty normal and regular life span with maintenance meds. Still he wont eat his regular food, which is wellness kibble, a tablespoon of plain greek yogurt with his glucosamine mixed in, and 11 sliced blue berries. He did eat some leftover scalloped potato and the whites of 2 hard boiled eggs. later he ate some crusts of dry toast.
I am not prepared to deal with having two potentially terminal patients in the house, but you never know which way the wind will blow. When the winds blow weird you sail in a zig zag.
Not Murry! I wuvz my wittle Murry!
YAY!! 
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