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Well we jinxed doof! In an effort to out-do Stanley, we came home this afternoon (after 10 minutes next door) to find the bastard had eaten an entire nappy (and it's contents ) that he stole out of the nappy bin, so guess who's at the emergency vet being forced to spew his guts up! Argh!!!!

I had 3 months of bedrest when I was pregnant and my toller spent the entire time with her head on my tummy while I lay I the couch. My kelpie x GSD is a bit more high strung so I taught him how to pick stuff up for me, then spent some time each day dropping the remote, books, etc and he was really happy

I had 3 months of bedrest when I was pregnant and my toller spent the entire time with her head on my tummy while I lay I the couch. My kelpie x GSD is a bit more high strung so I taught him how to pick stuff up for me, then spent some time each day dropping the remote, books, etc and he was really happy

Stan is hilarious. Probably more hilarious to people who don't have their new fridge chewed up :laugh: Bear can't brain around food, her eyes dilate completely and she throws every trick she's ever learnt out there in case it works. It doesn't matter if someone is holding it, if she sees food under the couch she'll start rolling and waving and sitting etc as if the food will magically come out :laugh:

I'm pretty sure Stan would just eat through the fridge door Doof sits in front of me completely fixated and drooling at my plate, shaking all over and letting out a weird grunt that sounds like a sex scene in a b-grade horror flick. It's charming. God knows what the neighbours think

Thanks guys :) he's completely and utterly wired, back to his usual insanely annoying self. I gave him half the dose my vet suggested....after the look and noises he gave my dinner I think if I gave him the full dose he'd channel Stanley and break into my fridge gotta love preds!

Well after 24 hours on preds doof has bounced back to being a batcr@p crazy land shark and the facial paralysis looks like it has been corrected his eye has stopped weeping and the redness is all gone. We'll go back to the vet on Friday or Saturday to check the pressure but hopefully the improvement isn't a short term one :)

Thanks piper. We haven't ruled it out completely but our bigger concern is that he has a neurological issue as well as he keeps having what seem to be mini strokes. The plan is to do the CT first then make a long term plan based on what we find there. If it is just glaucoma then we'll talk about the surgery. If it's glaucoma and strokes or tumors or anything big like that, we probably wouldn't put him through the surgery because the glaucoma would be a secondary issue. How old was your friends dog?

Back to the vet today for a follow up. It was meant to be the weekend but everyone in my house decided to get gastro this week There is still pressure in the affected eye, so we are upping his eye drops for now. We did notice that he seemed better (particularly the muscle control) after a steroid injection (the first time it happened we decided to give him one because we didn't know what was going on) and so we gave him one today and decided to start preds to see if that helps the muscle control. We'll recheck again in a few days. I've spoken to my vet about going to a specialist and we are going to wait and see how he goes with the new meds and also organize the CT for next week. My vet is certain the specialist will say we have to take out the eye, but we are thinking we wouldn't put him through that, so provided he isn't in pain we will just take it day by day My vet agrees that it's not time to give him his wings yet. I'm working to the theory that today is a good day and I'll worry about tomorrow when it happens. Thanks so much for the support guys, it really does help so much

It's a doggie bucket list

I've told hubby if we have to PTS I'm giving him a couple of blocks of chocolate just before the needle. God knows that boy has spent his whole life ticked off that he couldn't have chocolate.

Thanks guys :) I keep telling myself that and then this voice in the back of my head goes 'but...but....you don't want to leave it until it's too late and he's suffering'. My last dog should have been PTS earlier but I couldn't let her go. I don't want to do that to him He is still eating, drinking, yelling at the girlchild, escaping out the front door when we get home, etc so I think he has some time left :)

Sorry kirty I haven't been able to get the pics, everyone got sick! He's back at the vet tomorrow for a checkup but hasn't recovered all muscle tone yet and his eyeballs are quite sunken. Today it seemed worse but he is otherwise quite happy, he actually seems less anxious now he can't see. I'm really struggling with this decision, he doesn't appear to be in pain or unhappy, but I think because it's such a kick in the gut when you see his face I'm constantly questioning if it's time for him to go Erny he's never had an ear issue in his life, and the vet couldn't find anything either It's funny as a vet nurse I spent years counseling people about when to let their pets go, but then when it's my decision I become completely paralysed

we did consider that but the rest of the symptoms don't seem to fit vestibular too well. But it's definitely in the back of our minds. We were thinking it could have been a bite too but it just doesn't fit and don't know why it would reoccur suddenly Kirty I'll try to post some tonight when the girlchild goes to bed

Yes my vet mentioned something about a luxating cataract but he couldn't tell for sure. I do know that his eyes look much much more cloudy since yesterday than they did before and he couldn't see the kibble on the floor etc. argh it's just feeling like the start of a landslide Where is your work kirty? I'd be looking for a specialist in Sydney.

Thanks kirty :) he very much lives up to the name doofus :) Is glaucoma likely to be sudden onset like that? The first time it happened he was literally running across the park, stopped, yelped, and half his face has lost all muscle tone. And this time he woke up with no muscle tone on both sides. But then it comes good after a few hours. Is that normal for glaucoma? It just feels neurological to me We've also been giving him corticosteroids each time it happens, and they seem to help pick him up

More yesterday morning - the first one is the eye without glaucoma

Normal Doofy: Yesterday Morning:

Thanks kirty, I'm just arguing the sproglet to bed and I'll fix the photo when she is asleep (god willing) :)

I am able to do a CT at little/no cost, so we figured we had nothing to lose doing that first. Would the glaucoma have anything to do with the face losing all muscle tone? I am more thinking along the same line as Perse, that the glaucoma is secondary to something bigger. At the moment that is my biggest concern because if he is having a stroke every 1-2 weeks then I don't think I would want to put him through that for long, if you know what I mean? He's 13 1/2 now. Perse he seems happy enough today to tell off a guy that just knocked on the door so I'll take it as a good sign :laugh:

He has bad cataracts in both eyes so his vision was almost gone anyway but they checked the pressure in both eyes and my vet was only concerned about the left one having glaucoma. Both his eyes have sunken a bit which he thinks is why the 3rd eyelid comes across but it doesn't explain his whole face drooping, which I'm kind of more worried about at the moment because it seems neurological and very sudden. He's on cosopt drops (dorzolamide hydrochloride and timolol maleate) daily and going back for a checkup tomorrow

Just realised those photos didn't work, I'll try to put them up later! I meant to update last night but once he was home I wound up with a massive migraine (doof's fault for stressing me out lol!). So when we picked him up there was almost no droop in his face at all and because our vet had checked him over about 1.30 he didn't realise how bad it was, which is why he diagnosed glaucoma in 1 eye. He does have glaucoma but I think it's secondary to the drooping. I showed him the photos and so now we'll start investigating what caused that. Hopefully next week we can start with a CT scan, it is unlikely to give us a definite diagnosis but should rule some stuff out hopefully. I just want to know what it is, because if he is having strokes that would change it to palative care and I would consider giving him his wings if it's happening every week or 2 and impacting his quality of life. If it's something else then hopefully we can provide treatment. My vet also diagnosed him with a heart murmur and that must have happened recently as he had a full checkup 6 months ago. I had spent all day getting used to the idea he wasn't coming home, I genuinely thought it would be a 1 way trip and once he was curled up in the car I couldn't stop crying So now it's a wait and see game I guess. I'm pretty sure he lost almost all of his vision after yesterday, he is careful to walk up against bear if we aren't at home (awwww my dog has a guide dog!!!) and he couldn't find food that the kidlet dropped in front of him either Thanks everyone for the support, it really helped make yesterday easier I've also got to say god I love my vet, he's amazing :)

Sorry, gremlins!

Well the vet just called, he thinks its glaucoma, I'm going to get him at 4.30. He said the pressure in one of his eyes indicated glaucoma, and he'll need drops 3 times a day. So, at least its not life threatening, I was so worried it was a stroke. Some photos of him this morning - he usually has absolutely no droop at all in his eyes, his eyelids are very tight normally

Apparently he has just slept all morning and they think he can see a bit now. My vet should be in soonish