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driving chairman bao driving chairman bao chairman bao is a shih tzu we travel a lot i drive he watches we ve logged at least 10 000 miles and he s never once said sweetheart don t you think you should stop and ask someone friday july 04 2014 fwd sent from my iphone begin forwarded message from gail graham g graham002 gmail com date july 4 2014 at 3 04 24 pm gmt 2 to g graham002 gmail com g graham002 gmail com sent from my iphone posted by unknown at 6 07 am 0 comments tuesday july 01 2014 posted by unknown at 8 46 am 0 comments posted by unknown at 8 41 am 0 comments posted by unknown at 8 06 am 0 comments friday june 03 2011 bao is gone he did well in the surgery and when i left him was recovering nicely they called me at ten thirty last night to let me know that he was having some difficulty but it was nothing they couldn t handle things settled down but shortly past midnight his heart stopped it was very sudden they tried to revive him but couldn t by the time i got there he was gone i can still feel him somehow near to me i cannot believe he s gone i held him afterwards his dear little body was still warm he might have been asleep what can i say he was my dear companion i loved him i love him and now he s gone it doesn t seem possible how can i go on without him bao is gone it s over posted by unknown at 7 09 am 11 comments tuesday may 31 2011 waiting for test results looks like it s cancer but where in his pericardium in his lungs they ve done blood tests urine tests and chest x rays now we re waiting for the consultation with oncology bao is rather enjoying the to and fro of dogs and people in waiting area which is spacious and comfortable as far as he s concerned it s just another outing posted by unknown at 2 36 pm 3 comments we re in fort collins on thursday bao began to develop another pericardial effusion why do these things always happen during holiday weekends if he was my dog said the cardiologist i d take him to colorado so that s what i did it was a 14 hour drive which we did over two days but bao loves car trips so that was okay our appointment is this afternoon but we came a day early which was just as well because it turned out that bao also had fluid in one of his lungs the colorado state university veterinary teaching hospital is open 24 7 so help was at hand thank goodness i m pretty sure bao is going to need the pericardectomy and i m apprehensive but we ve got to fix this and we ve got to find out what s causing it after all this time and 10 000 in veterinary fees we still don t have a diagnosis posted by unknown at 9 17 am 0 comments thursday may 26 2011 bao and i managed to get to mexico for a few days but last week another pericardial effusion this is the fourth time he s had to go through this nobody knows what s wrong the antibiotics don t seem to be making much difference today we saw an internist and they ultra sounded bao s whole body and found nothing remarkable now they re saying it s probably cancer mesothelioma which doesn t show up on scans and sometimes doesn t show up in a biopsy so how do they know whether or not he s got it well they don t apparently when they can t find anything else they simply assume it s cancer cancer or no cancer the only way to stop pericardial effusions is to cut a window in the pericardium unfortunately there is a fairly high element of risk attached to this procedure in fact i m not nearly as scared of the cancer if it s there as i am of heart surgery which is what this is amazingly there is a video of this surgery on youtube i haven t watched it there is such a thing as too much information our cardiologist has suggested that we go back to the university of colorado veterinary medicine hospital to have the surgery done he says all the best people in the field are there under one roof although he could do the surgery himself he told me that if bao was his dog he d take him to colorado so i guess that s what we re going to have to do the internist did some blood tests and we ll have the results of those tomorrow but i could tell that even without the results of the tests she thinks the pericardectomy is our best and only option in a way she s right even if we never find out what s causing this the surgery will eliminate the pericardial effusions which could kill him instantly after the pericardectomy if fluid does continue to accumulate it will accumulate in bao s pleural cavity where it s more easily dealt with and if he does have cancer i suppose it s better to know sooner rather than later bao is snoring happily on the couch he doesn t have a clue what s going on he s not in pain he s not frightened he s fast asleep with his dear little head pillowed on one of his stuffed toys he s fine i m terrified posted by unknown at 3 10 pm 1 comments tuesday may 10 2011 aftera fabulous week another pericardial effusion and they still don t know what s wrong this is so scary and so frustrating and so expensive once again bao s pericardial sac had to be tapped but this is not a disease it s a symptom the question is a symptom of what i have a theory after the hernia surgery bao was on a 7 day course of antibiotics after two days he was a different dog lively prancing playing happy a few days after we stopped the antibiotics he slowed down a little a few more days and he had another pericardial effusion so here s my theory he has a sub clinical infection somewhere a handful of bacteria on a mission but not enough to show up on standard blood tests although the post surgery antibiotics were prophylactic to help stop infection they nonetheless zapped these under the radar bacteria but didn t kill them all off and when we stopped the antibiotics the bacteria regrouped tomorrow we ll go see dr mike and i m going to suggest that bao goes back on antibiotics for a week or two just to see what happens they can t hurt him and if he suddenly peps up again at least it s a data point this is a complete puzzle the the veterinarians and to me any ideas the only good thing about the situation is that bao is comfortable happy and not in any kind of pain and that s a lot to be thankful for posted by unknown at 3 24 pm 4 comments monday may 02 2011 poolside with bao and as you can see the area they shaved for the surgery was pretty extensive they even had to shave part of his tail but luckily they left the little plume at the end of it his stitches come out on wednesday we finished the antibiotics a couple of days ago and bao s elevator anxiety now seems to have dissipated maybe it had something to do with all the drugs he was taking at one point he was taking seven different medications twice a day what he had is called a perineal hernia and anyone who has an intact male dog should be aware of the dangers apparently intact males or males who are neutered late in life as bao was are prone to these hernias and as we found out they just quietly get bigger and bigger until they become life threatening i thought we were managing it with stool softeners and that bao s slowing down was due to his heart condition and advancing age now i know better all that poop sitting in the loop of the hernia was not only constipating him it was sapping his energy to see him trotting and prancing now you wouldn t believe it was the same little dog he s like a puppy full of eagerness energy and vitality i feel guilty i wish we d done this surgery years ago i am amazed at the instantaneous difference it has made in his quality of life if only i d known some medical diagnoses strike terror into your heart however hernia definitely isn t one of them but now i m thinking maybe it ought to be posted by unknown at 2 33 pm 2 comments about me name unknown view my complete profile links google news www dogwalkmusings blogspot com www bestfriends com www gailgraham net previous posts fwd bao is gone he did well in the surgery and when i waiting for test results we re in fort collins bao and i managed to get to mexico for a few days aftera fabulous week another pericardial effusion poolside with bao and as you can see the area archives june 2006 july 2006 august 2006 september 2006 october 2006 february 2007 march 2007 april 2007 may 2007 june 2007 july 2007 august 2007 september 2007 october 2007 november 2007 december 2007 january 2008 february 2008 march 2008 april 2008 may 2008 june 2008 july 2008 august 2008 september 2008 october 2008 november 2008 december 2008 january 2009 february 2009 march 2009 april 2009 may 2009 june 2009 july 2009 august 2009 september 2009 october 2009 november 2009 december 2009 july 2010 august 2010 september 2010 january 2011 february 2011 march 2011 april 2011 may 2011 june 2011 july 2014