While I have no idea what a rockmellon is, the vet (even drove him a couple of hours away to see a specialist) diagnosed Calvin with a heart tumor causing an estimated 80% blockage in bloodflow. While he was a stray and I have no real idea, most experts pegged him at 5 years old or just a bit under at the time of diagnosis. FAR too young. Same goes with little dog, Nina. She just went from heathy to dead with no indications whatsoever. Would have done a necropsy but, as the vet suggested, it could have been anything that can suddenly kill a human (well, save for car accidents and the like). You might want to take a look at the online source I managed to find about how to, at least, keep the tumor from growing. Yup, cancer is a bitch!
Poor Buddy. If nothing more, you always have a compassionate ear here.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Becks from Sunday, April 05, 2015 8:46:07 PM)| |  | Becks wrote: | | Thanks for the offer Guido, but honestly, the tumour is so huge (at least rockmelon size) I don't think a change of diet or anything like that will help him. We still take him on wee walks, not long ones as Ada is learning to ride her balance bike at the same time haha. Thanks for the kind words, and you're right they are always puppies to us!
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Awwww. VERY sorry to hear that, Becks. Of course I remember your puppydog (even full-grown, they are always "puppies" to me).
When I got the devastating news that Calvin had an inoperable hear tumor, the Vet only gave him months to live. I researched like crazy and even got some great tips about a change of diet (primarily REAL cooked food with veggies) and he "gave up his little puppy ghost" a bit more than a year after the Vet gave him to live. Want me to PM you what I still may have around, I'd be glad to do so.
One thing I did NOT do was to keep the dog as calm as possible (didn't want his heart pumping too fast). Nope, Certainly not a way to go out! One of the happiest pictures I posted once here was him going crazy digging up my backyard going after something. Never seen a happier dog.
Again, very sad news.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Ewwww exploding poop! We get some pretty nasty tissue samples in to the lab I'm working in now - we do tissue culturing to try and isolate Mycobacterium bovis - we get lesions and those are nasty often all pussy and gross.
Well I have some sad news to pass on to my JP friends. You guys have often heard about our dog Buddy. Well he has been limping over recent months, he's 9 so we just thought it's arthritis/sore joints from getting old. When we were away for my sister in laws wedding last week he vomited a couple of times so off to the vet we went when we got home. Vet discovered a huge lump up the top inside (where his back left leg meets his gut). Needle biopsy done and it has been confirmed our lovely boy has cancer  we don't know how long he's got left but every day will be like Christmas from now on! He has also lost 6kg without a massive change in diet or rigorous exercise, couple with the cancer being quite aggressive (from what the vet said) we don't expect he'll be with us for much longer. He has been the best dog. Cancer is a bastard!!!!!!!!!!! I bawled for ages after finding out.
| | | HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS wrote: | | Your mom and I could spend days sharing stories, I'm sure!!  Did she tell you any exploding poop stories??!! Now that's when the shit really flies! I tell everyone, BEWARE of the bulging container - she's gonna BLOW!! Sounds like someone fired a gun and scares the shit out of everyone. I had one next to me, thankfully the container was in a sealed bag on the bench, and before I could get to it, the lid came exploding off because of all the built up gas in the container and poop splattered inside the entire bag. I jumped about feet in the air! My friend wasn't nearly as lucky with hers though. It exploded inside the hood and caming splattering out. She was covered in shit from the chest to her knees and shit was covering every inch of the hood. Poor thing. We all gathered around her and carefully took off her lab coat which thank God protected most of her!!
You know that if I could BUY a backstage pass, I WOULD!! FaceBook has its uses for sure and this was one of them!! The tickets went on pre-sale through Crowd Surge before any other pre-sales. They only said on FB that the tickets were going on sale 3/25/15 at 10 am and gave the Crowd Surge link. I was on-line exactly at 10am and the "buy tickets" icon appeared. When it gave me row AAA, I almost passed out!! The tickets have to be picked up at Will Call and it says NO TRANSFERS allowed. We still haven't seen any being resold, so it looks like all the close tickets went to fans that are actaully going to the show, what a concept!! If you look up the show in Chicago, there are 384 tickets being re-sold for 6X down to 3X face value. Tried to get tickets to that show and were online immediately and ended up back in row P or something and said FUCK THAT!! Glad we said no way to that show!
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Yup. Right as always, HRMG. Spoke wiith Mom today (GO GREEN) and she confirmed what you said. Even laughed and gave me more of the way people sent in "specimens" over her 40+ career. She LOVED the way you abbreviated "C. diff" and told me more about your test than I could understand. I still say send poop in a Tupperware container! LOL!!! Obviously, she agreed with you.
Your hubby can't make it to Sterling Hights? Lemme know. I'd be g;lad to pay for his tix! Buy him a backstage pass or something!
| | | HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS wrote: | |  , huh, what? Collected my continuing education credits and moved along, LOL! Actually, the C. diff one was pretty interesting. I stayed awake for it since I had just started to validate our C. diff PCR test. That's where I found out it is no longer just caused by antibiotic use, that it can be transmitted from person to person and healthy people have contracted it. They also talked about the new treatment - fecal transplants. All I could think was, THANK GOD I'm not the one that has to filter the poop! Definitely NOT the job that I ever want to do!! 
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HAAAAA!!! So no hair, then?
Thanks for chiming in on the subject. Man, I am really sorry to have missed THAT conference! Sounds like a hoot!
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Came in on this conversation a little late, but what the hell.
NO to the God Damn Tupperware container and NO YOU MAY NOT HAVE IT BACK WHEN I AM DONE WITH IT!!! A CLEAN, laboratory provided specimen container PLEASE!! FFS, I once got a turd in a velvet ring box!! I guess we know what she thought of the ring!
Usually, the patient with an extreme case of Clostridium difficile will find their own donor, but I suppose if we are talking about research cases, then perhaps. The new treatment when all else fails, is to do a fecal transplant so that the donor stools bacteria will take over and the C. difficile will be crowded out. Ask your mom, they had a presentation on it a couple years ago at the ASCLS-Michigan meeting that I went to. Quite a NASTY little bug it is!!
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Poop? I can sell my poop? While might be a slight to the band, I produce a lot of it as I am sure many fans doi as well. HAAA!!!
Details, woman, details! Shall I collect petri dishes or is Tupperware or even Ziplock baggies good enough? I would be more than happy to send it ot Jayne!!!!! She really deserves some shit! Curbishley as well.
Mis-handled the greatest band in the world, IMO. I know I speak for many. (ps ed. The band has remained strong despite of it!!!).
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