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we had an appt with a new rehab vet to establish care in case of ever needing a future tuneup. She seems mostly ok, but maybe a lil something in that right rear. I think she has tight hammies. Got some exercises, can do cold laser or shockwave in the future if we need it. Poor bug was happy to see him at first and then VERY unhappy with him once he started poking and prodding.
Gonna try out a new rehab vet next Monday that is right around the corner from us, AND has the best prices so far. Nothing in particular wrong, but I want to get her assessed in advance of a few events in the fall. There's some grounders agility opportunities and I think that would be such a good way for us to play together with minimal impact on her joints, but I want to make sure she’s all good before we start getting out there again. Plus this place has the therapies that worked for her too if we need a tune up in the future.
Ultrasound showed nice healthy iliopsoas! Pip was a model patient who laid quietly in the cradle and even helped onboard a new employee.
Other news, they found two fluid filled blobs in her abdomen that appeared to be cystic lymph nodes. I never want to hear "lymph nodes" again in my life but she assured me they didn't look malignant. Lymphoma nodes are dense and messed up looking, these are dark and fluidy. They checked other nodes in the region they were viewing and those were all normal. So was her reproductive tract.
Back when she was staged for her transplant, they noted pockets of mystery fluid in her belly. They didn't say they looked node-like at that time, but I'm hoping it's the same goo and thus nothing to worry about. We will know more once the radiologist has a chance to check the literature and send the final report over. Will discuss with our oncologist and hopefully be breathing a big sigh of relief. I'm trying not to freak out, I think we have a lot of things in our favor that suggest we don't need to worry.
Ultrasound for psoas scheduled for Friday. Hoping there's nothing to see.
I'm already in pre-grief mode because I think there will be something and that's at least 6 months of rehab and strict rest. I'm heartbroken that she's just finally feeling better in her body and I'm going to have to do strict restrictions. Hopefully I'm just freaking out over nothing and she is just a bit tight.
The only silver lining is that I think there's a high chance it could just be a mild strain with how small and intermittent her symptoms are. But this issue has been on my radar for a while so that would mean it's been unaddressed while we increased activity this whole time...
So angry and frustrated. We've worked SO hard to get her back into shape after everything. Feels like we are back to square one and I'm having a hard time not feeling hopeless. She might not be able to run again til she's like 5. Trying to let any sports dreams rest. We can just do low impact stuff together, and she can run solo things even if she never gets to race or course again, so she can still have a bunny once she's well.
It's so hard.
Amogus...
Pip was a good worker today for TAing, but she was also very silly so it's a wash. After class we did some practice on our own but it was HELLA windy and she was so full a beans she was zooming all over. She even started biting her leash (while playing with me!) which i can't ever remember her doing???
I'm sure it gets old to read all the time, but it's like I have a whole different dog. She's so joyful and optimistic and zestful. She spent so long feeling shitty and fearful and hurt that seeing her blossom again, with the pain getting under control and bad cells zonked, and watching her find so much joy in the movement of her body makes me misty eyed over and over again. She hasn't had that in so long, the glee and the confidence that she can move how she wants to and it won't hurt. Just brings a mama to tears.
Wet beast Tuesday again!
She was so excited to get here she cried when we got into the parking lot?!?! I guess it is not wet torture chamber after all.
Getting a jump on Wet Beast Wednesday
