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Thread: Big day tomorrow
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08-21-2019, 08:01 PM #1
Big day tomorrow
They say a lawyer who defends himself has an idiot for a client and a doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient, and this possibly falls in the same catagory. Sunday, my bestest buddy "Gibson", an English bulldog I rescued 2 years ago, became blocked due to stones in his urethra (he could not pee). He has had bladder stones since I saved him due to a liver shunt which causes stone formation. These stones live in his bladder and occasionally try to pass out but can't due to them being too large, so they wedge in his penis. Fortunately my associate was able to put in a catheter so he could pee but not push the stones back (I was out of town). So tomorrow I am doing surgery on my own dog. He is a horrible anestheia risk due to his liver disease. He lacks the ability to normally and efficiently metabolize drugs like anesthetics, and is predisposed to seizures. Last surgery he had, he slept for 9 hrs and seizured for 8 of those. Needless to say I am concerned. Surgery should be a snap. I've done dozens if not more cystotomies but never on a dog with a shunt. But IF he survives surgery, he will be a far happier dog. Not sure I have ever been so nervous about a surgery in my entire career.
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.--David Bowie.
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08-21-2019, 08:22 PM #2
Big day tomorrow
Will be thinking of you Doc, wishing you the best.
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08-21-2019, 08:46 PM #3
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I’m sure if he could talk he would tell you that he’s glad it’s you.
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08-21-2019, 08:47 PM #4
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08-21-2019, 09:04 PM #5
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Me too Ron. No matter what happens, he couldn't be in better or more caring hands.
A dog deserves a good quality life, since it is short no matter what.
God Speed.
“Before I leave I’d like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations,
“I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. We are citizens of a republic made of shared ideals forged in a new world to replace the tribal enmities that tormented the old one. Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that awesome heritage and the responsibility to embrace it.”
-Patriot and Senator. John McCain
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08-21-2019, 10:25 PM #6
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Good luck Doc, we'll all be thinking of you.
People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back.
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08-21-2019, 10:36 PM #7
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Good Luck Doc!
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08-22-2019, 05:21 AM #8
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Prayers for you, Doc.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
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08-22-2019, 07:17 AM #9
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Good luck!
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08-22-2019, 08:50 AM #10
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Thinking of you, Doc. Hang tough.
U really think players are going to duke without being paid over Kentucky?--Gilbert Arenas, 9/12/19
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08-22-2019, 11:34 AM #11
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Well, he survived. Actually did quite well. Probably 100 stones in there, and I think I got them all
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.--David Bowie.
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08-22-2019, 11:38 AM #12
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Wow. Awesome Doc!
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08-22-2019, 11:42 AM #13
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100! Good grief...
Wow, glad he is doing well, Doc.One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
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08-22-2019, 11:50 AM #14
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Great news, Ron. All the best in his recovery!
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08-22-2019, 12:44 PM #15
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Poor guy! Damn 100 stones!
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08-22-2019, 02:31 PM #16
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Great news, Doc!
U really think players are going to duke without being paid over Kentucky?--Gilbert Arenas, 9/12/19
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08-22-2019, 03:07 PM #17
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08-22-2019, 03:37 PM #18
Big day tomorrow
Just a few
Sent from my SM-G950U using TapatalkAging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.--David Bowie.
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08-22-2019, 03:38 PM #19
Big day tomorrow
Feels like crap but up
Sent from my SM-G950U using TapatalkAging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.--David Bowie.
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08-22-2019, 04:54 PM #20
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Good news!
“Before I leave I’d like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations,
“I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. We are citizens of a republic made of shared ideals forged in a new world to replace the tribal enmities that tormented the old one. Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that awesome heritage and the responsibility to embrace it.”
-Patriot and Senator. John McCain
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08-22-2019, 08:59 PM #21
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