Archive for October, 2011
Lucky’s Story, Part 3.
Back to the tale of Lucky, the Oklahoma Beagle with the high white count and the Rimadyl addiction. I was stumped. I went back to the drawing board. The facts were these: I had a young beagle, with apparent severe generalized pain that responded exquisitely to Rimadyl. She maintained a high neutrophil count for months despite [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Home Run, Lost Game, etc. Part 2
So where was I? I sent off the mother of all tick panels to try to diagnose Lucky’s leukocytosis (fancy word for high white blood cell count). I tested for: Lyme, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Babesia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, Hepatozoon, Leishmania, Neorickettsia, Bartonella, Mycoplasma (2 kinds) and Cand. M Haematoparvum. While these tests were running, I placed a call to my local [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )A Grand Slam, But We Still Lost the Game. Or Did We?
I am not a sports fan. Well, there was my NBA basketball phase during the glory days of the late 80′s early 90′s, back in the days of Michael Jordan, Larry Byrd, Spud Webb, Akeem Olajuwon, Magic Johnson and my favorite John Stockton of the Utah Jazz (I was a hormone-crazed teen at the time and he was just so darn cute). I [...]
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