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Nope. There are autoimmune diseases that destroy platelets and those that destroy RBCs but not autoimmune diseases in that destroy WBCs. There might be something in humans, but not in dogs. With the fever of 106 degrees you have a bacterial infection. I think your idea of a puncture is spot on. He probably stepped on something and now an anaerobic infection is going wild in the foot and spreading through the body. That would pull WBCs out of circulation and make the vessels "Leaky" making it easy to lose RBCs to third space out side the blood vessels but still inside the dog. Keep up the fluids and antibiotics. Make sure they have an antibiotic that is effective against anaerobic infections as well as the normal spectrum of bacteria. Metronidazole is a great one for anaerobic infections. I've had dogs with WBC counts that low or lower and there is almost always a bacteria or a cancer of the bone marrow. Cancers don't cause fevers of 106 though so bet on a bacteria this time. Given the history of limping, think of something that punctured the skin but made a very small hole so when an infection started there was no where for it to drain. A thorn or a cat claw would both produce that kind of injury.0
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Thank-you. I really appreciate it. I sent a screenshot to my fiance so he can bring it up. He is picking him up at 7 when they close...not sure what our next step is after that.0
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Metronidazole! That's the medication my doctor put me on for my infection and it made me feel all KINDS of icky.
Of course my body doesn't like antibiotics anyway...
I found eating yogurt helped a lot.0 -
Frankie_Felinius wrote: »Thank-you. I really appreciate it. I sent a screenshot to my fiance so he can bring it up. He is picking him up at 7 when they close...not sure what our next step is after that.
Can you leave her with your regular vet for the day and keep the IV antibiotics and fluids going? They could recheck the blood values at the end of the day and make sure the WBC count is coming back up.0 -
lilaclovebird wrote: »Metronidazole! That's the medication my doctor put me on for my infection and it made me feel all KINDS of icky.
Of course my body doesn't like antibiotics anyway...
I found eating yogurt helped a lot.
That's because it wipes out the anaerobic bacteria needed for digestion. You should always take a probiotic with antibiotics since they will mess with the normal bacteria from your intestines.0 -
lilaclovebird wrote: »Metronidazole! That's the medication my doctor put me on for my infection and it made me feel all KINDS of icky.
Of course my body doesn't like antibiotics anyway...
I found eating yogurt helped a lot.
I always up my yogurt consumption or take a probiotic supplement when I get antibiotics. I'm sure it's saved me from some bad times lol. I try to take some regularly bc my belly just seems happier.0 -
man...you disappear for a few days and there's over a hundred posts and ALL KINDS of $h!t happening all over the place...from animals falling ill to Bastrop, TX becoming the host for the Stupid Human Trick Olympic Trials.
i had friends from Philly (my 25+ year adopted hometown) who were supposed to fly into Nashville this past weekend to pick up a German Shepherd puppy they bought from a kennel in Pulaski, about 90 minutes south of town...but for some reason their flight was cancelled without explanation and they were told the next one they could expect to get would be today or possibly tomorrow...and the lady who runs the kennel was leaving for two weeks today.
so a few phone calls later, we arranged for me to pick up the dog Saturday afternoon...and I drove the poor, scared $h1tless, whimpering creature from Nashville to PHL overnight Saturday night, slept in their guest room for 5 hours or so, and turned around and headed back - after a 3 hour nap outside Bristol, I got back to Nashville at 7am this morning....and am settled back at my desk tonight without missing a beat here.
it was disappointing on one level, because I had planned on doing some unpacking and getting the new place squared away - AND i had friends with gigs in town on both Saturday and Sunday nights, and i missed both shows - but I got to do something nice for an old friend, and the road trip was a nice mental "palette cleanser" between getting out of the old house and into the new one. AND i got to have lunch with one of my buddies whos' show i missed on Saturday night this afternoon before he flies out tomorrow morning.
looking forward to getting some stuff done this week...possibly having some family over this weekend to check out the new place...hope you guys are all well - and relatively unscathed from all the stuff I missed while i was gone.
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@hamptontom that was super cool of you
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@hamptontom - see what you get when you try to have an life? You miss everything! But yeah that was really cool of you!
In other news -turns out that one of the possible side effects Melatonin is anxiety! Good thing it only took me a few days to figure it out...but it made the weekend pretty rough. @Frankie_Felinius; I'm glad you said what you did about it, because it helped me connect the dots!0 -
in all fairness, i should add that this guy did me a HUGE solid a few years ago when I was working on an album project, and this was a drop in the bucket towards repaying his generosity...it just felt like the right thing to do.
@jennifer_417 -- are you a fan of Patton Oswalt at all? he has a bit about Ambien in one of his standup routines that's funny as hell.0 -
Nash is doing ok! Nick brought him home this morning and as they pull up...Nick sees two loose pits from down the street running up the alley. Nash jumps up and starts getting all riled up. Nick puts the dogs in our yard so he can go to the neighbor's house. Nash is in the car with Elka and he is PISSED at those dogs. I go out there and try to get him to lay down and he finally does. So the pits go home and we go inside. He laid down on the couch (on top of a giant fluffy blanket and stayed there all day. He did eat a hot dog full of pills readily but wouldn't drink so when Nick got home, he boiled a steak and made some meat water, which he happily drank. He met Nick at the door when he heard him come home from work, which is huge! He always does that and didn't yesterday. He went outside and kept wanting to walk around but Nick figured he should be resting so he brought the big fluffy blanket out and Nash laid on that for awhile. He of course seems tired but seems to be going uphill overall. We'll take him in to get re-tested I think tomorrow.
On a side note...reading the docs/techs notes about his personality was kinda funny. They mentioned several times how he seemed depressed. Nash has always been a pretty low key dog. Even as a puppy, he was never very active, hated to go for walks...just a couch potato with a pretty serious personality. Nick kept telling them, I know he SEEMS depressed...but this is how he always is...very mellow happy guy, not depressed at all. It is hard to determine whether he is ever lethargic or not because if he is such a bum. Couch potato yet he is completely fit, wtf? When Nick kissed him before leaving for work, he told Nash he smelled like girly perfume. Nash likes nearly all women and he smelled like he'd been getting loved on by the ladies, lol.0 -
bethanie0825 wrote: »lilaclovebird wrote: »Metronidazole! That's the medication my doctor put me on for my infection and it made me feel all KINDS of icky.
Of course my body doesn't like antibiotics anyway...
I found eating yogurt helped a lot.
I always up my yogurt consumption or take a probiotic supplement when I get antibiotics. I'm sure it's saved me from some bad times lol. I try to take some regularly bc my belly just seems happier.
I second this.
The ONE time I saw a doctor for my frequent sinus infections, she gave me amox. Ended up with a C. Diff infection. She told me it was a mild irritation and I'd get over it. When I started getting bloody, very loose stool, she finally did tests at my insistence and admitted it was C. Diff. Then she tried to say it was my fault, I live in a dirty home.
It turns out C. Diff infection is a very good possibility when taking antibiotics...0 -
bethanie0825 wrote: »lilaclovebird wrote: »Metronidazole! That's the medication my doctor put me on for my infection and it made me feel all KINDS of icky.
Of course my body doesn't like antibiotics anyway...
I found eating yogurt helped a lot.
I always up my yogurt consumption or take a probiotic supplement when I get antibiotics. I'm sure it's saved me from some bad times lol. I try to take some regularly bc my belly just seems happier.
I second this.
The ONE time I saw a doctor for my frequent sinus infections, she gave me amox. Ended up with a C. Diff infection. She told me it was a mild irritation and I'd get over it. When I started getting bloody, very loose stool, she finally did tests at my insistence and admitted it was C. Diff. Then she tried to say it was my fault, I live in a dirty home.
It turns out C. Diff infection is a very good possibility when taking antibiotics...
I never understand why it has to be anyone's fault. I know she was trying to avoid an insurance claim by saying it was your fault, but she wouldn't be doing that if people didn't blame the doctors for everything that goes wrong. It's medicine! Stuff happens! The correct thing to do would have been to skip the whole blame game and just try to figure out how to fix the new problem.
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sufferlandrian wrote: »I never understand why it has to be anyone's fault. I know she was trying to avoid an insurance claim by saying it was your fault, but she wouldn't be doing that if people didn't blame the doctors for everything that goes wrong. It's medicine! Stuff happens! The correct thing to do would have been to skip the whole blame game and just try to figure out how to fix the new problem.
Understood. And I never blamed her, never said to her it was her fault.
It blew me away how she was so upfront with what she said, though.
Where I did fault her is where when I went back with the symptoms I did, I believe she did know what I had, and played it off as "mild irritation." From what I understand C. Diff is not something to be trifled with and that's where I don't find not wanting the insurance claim an acceptable excuse. Had she not played it off and been upfront, I'd be ok with it, once explained it was a normal side effect.
I say she likely knew based on symptoms as at the time I would chat with someone who was a doctor somewhere far away, and based on what she prescribed me for the "irritation", yet without seeing me, said "Don't play around, tell her you want a C. Diff test now!" He turned out to be right.0 -
On another topic...I'm trying this online dating thing and I realize that the people I am physically attracted to...all look a LOT like my ex husband....0
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That isn't too suprising. I can't say I have a "type". Well, I do...but they don't look similar, necessarily. Physically, I tend to like sideburns, tattoos, crinkly eyes, some distinguished silver on the sides, large forearms and "blue collar keeps him in decent shape but he doesn't work out" kind of body. Non-physically, I like a guy who has a filthy sense of humor & sings/plays instruments. But my two biggest crushes are 1. Johnny Knoxville...has been for a looong time. 2. The lead singer of this band I love. This guy is a drunk, chain-smoker, has horrible tattoos, only wears white v neck tees and jeans...he is like the epitome of a guy who tries to hard to be a cool musician guy. I first heard him sing on YouTube years ago, didn't care for it much. Saw him live years later (went for the opener, not his band) and I got suckered. He is sooo not my type but I'm a smitten kitten. My fiance will not stop teasing me about it...if he overhears me listening to their music, he imitates the singer's overdone gravel voice. Tells me he is going to dress up as him for Halloween. Calls him the Silver Sorcerer (dude has silver hair) Neither of these guys are my ideal physical type (both quite thin)...but they are my biggest crushes. Anyway...if you look at my man crush monday posts on IG...there isn't a physical type. There are the two guys I already mentioned plus young Jack Nicholson, Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle (not Bradley Cooper, not Chris Kyle, only him in that role), Ryan Gosling ONLY as Handsome Luke from A Place Beyond the Pines, Jesse Eisenberg (he is my super oddball one, confuses ME even), Critter Fuqua, young Paul Newman, Jesse James. No one common physical trait. Attraction is really interesting, isnt' it? That book by the author that my fiance said reminded him of me that I ordered? It is all about human attraction/sexuality, mating, why we stray, lust, marriage...really fascinating stuff! I know my fiance has a type (he likes witchy looking women, (thank GOODNESS for me!) and brunettes...which is my least favorite color for my own hair) but has weird ones that float his boat for some reason or another, usually humor.
You guys care to share your "type" and maybe some crush that confuses even you why you find them attractive?0 -
well, this isn't gonna solve anything in terms of nailing down a "type", but since you (kinda) asked - this might help.
my three best examples of women that'd illustrate what i find attractive would be:
Janeane Garofalo in "The Truth About Cats and Dogs" - funny, sarcastic, smart, great conversationalist, and - contrary to the spirit of the movie, f'n BEAUTIFUL (compared to Uma Thurman, who i've never round remotely attractive).
Minnie Driver in "Grosse Point Blank" - playful, smart (again), intelligent, waaaaay into music, good company, fun - and yeah, not hard to look at...but possibly has as much to do with her persona as her actual physical looks.
Barbara Striesand in "What's Up Doc" - which is pure fantasy, because she'd have me institutionalized in the space of a month, but it'd be a month I'd be talking about for the rest of my life. She's pretty great in "The Way We Were", too, for that matter.
I'm drawn to women who are bookish, intelligent, smile easily, have something interesting to say and are easy to talk to, a little nerdy...spontaneous, affectionate, creative, passionate...
...and it'd be a nice bonus if she actually liked me. that's always a plus.
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I have to agree with Minnie Driver in "Gross Point Blank" and Janeane Garofalo in "Truth about Cats and Dogs", but I would have to go with Ashley Judd in "Double Jeopardy" for my third. I would have gone with Claudia Cardinel in "Once Upon a Time in the west" but she wasn't much of an actress and the movie, despite it's big name stars, is a pretty poor film. I think it was an attempt to resurrect the careers of a couple of the actors and they should have just moved on to different aspects of film.0
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Well not ALL of the county is on fire....
Our South gate is totally eff'd. The whole area is on fire and we are JUST NOW being informed that some of our fire hydrants don't work.
Currently no buildings threatened but that may change.
Wind is picking up. Fire is 30-40% contained.
They are currently splitting the crew so half of them can get some sleep.
I am feeling all KINDS of anxious because there is a problem and I can not fix it and I just see EVERYTHING going wrong and the whole campus going up in flames and all of our research being lost.
I am like a ticking time bomb for cancer here. I am only waiting for WHEN I get cancer, not if given my genetic history. People like me NEED scientists doing studies and research. This is mucking up the whole thing.
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*kitten*! We've just had an explosion!
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North and South gates are on fire at this time. Multiple homes threatened. We've lost a portable building on the outskirts of the property. Things are looking hazy for MD Anderson right now.0
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Straight from my radio:
"Thank you so much. We'll just keep holding down MD Anderson!"
"10-4"
We have some guys napping at the North gate now that that fire is down and under control.0 -
We have some 10-12 fire fighters taking a nap at our North gate that was just on fire but has since calmed down. South gate is still ablaze and we've lost one of the outer portable buildings. Smithville Campus is in trouble but things are winding down(some 10 hours after things became crazy). Our gates are open for the fire departments to refill their trucks as needed.
The entire campus was evacuated, except for the mice. The FD is making it a priority to save the MD Anderson campus which I am SOO grateful for because the research we do is much needed for those who are and will be suffering through cancer.0 -
Glad the are getting it under control.0
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How's it going everyone0
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sufferlandrian wrote: »Glad the are getting it under control.
South end of the campus is still on fire. Fire fighters woke up and, for a minute there, it looked like they were all praying in a circle.
I think they were praying that this doesn't become as bad as the previous Bastrop Fire.0 -
After all the fires we've had here, I can sympathize with you.0
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sufferlandrian wrote: »After all the fires we've had here, I can sympathize with you.
I'm terrified. I've never been this close to anything like this before.
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Hang in there. They can't burn forever.0
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sufferlandrian wrote: »Hang in there. They can't burn forever.
Thank goodness for that.
I don't know which is worse, the flooding we had a few months back or the fires we are dealing with now...
ETA: Bright side! With all the fuel around the campus burning now, we wont have to worry about it later!
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