Well today is November 6, and I am ashamed to admit that I am posting this 4 days late as on November second 2008 Lars became a part of my life.
Posts Tagged ‘Luther’
Poor Lars has been living life as a couch potato of sorts for the last few days, forcing me to break out the ‘ol pitty stick. For about the last week the heat of summer has been in the neighbourhood of 35 degrees, making it unbarably hot for me, nevermind the little man.
Well its the middle of June and the weather is heating up for sure, meaning that the Bar does not get to go out as often as I, and or he would like. Some days are hotter than others and on the cooler days I try to get him out as much as possible, and [...]
It has never ceased to amaze me how time flies by; one minute its spring, next minute its summer, you get the point. Yesterday would’ve been Luther’s 11th birthday, and the day before that marked the 4th month anniversary of his death. Some days when I think of him it feels like he is a [...]
Life can be a bitch sometimes no doubt about it, and just when you think that you’re having a bad day you hear of somebody else whose day seems just that little bit worse. I recently had to let go of my own Luther and just the other day, heard that a friend of my [...]
So Luther will be remaining on a large prednizone dose for another week, before being weened down in dosage. He was supposed to be on his final large dose day today, but due to his tremors persisting, the vet wants to keep him on the drug at the current 20mg daily dose for another 7 [...]
So Lu went for blood work yesterday, and it appears that his pituitary gland is functioning far below the level that it should be. This is a direct result of his lysodren overdose, but the hope was that by medicating him with prednizone that this would counteract that damaging effect of the drug. He has [...]
So Luther has been on prednizone for nearly 3 weeks and has noticably improved. He is not shying away from going up stairs anymore, and although it takes him a while to climb a flight, he is doing so willingly. He is also more active in general, seeking attention, and reverting back to his hoovering [...]
So Lu is on his second medication since his Cushing’s diagnosis, the latter of which is to counteract the effect of the first one. The most popular drug to treat Cushing’s in dogs is one called lysodren, a powerful drug used as a chemotherapy agent. One of the side effects of this drug is that [...]
So lost in the last few months which have been marred by Luther’s deteriorating health crisis, is the fact that Lars, AKA Bar Bar has been, and continues to be a little fire cracker. Monday was actually Lars and my 1-year anniversary, man its hard to believe that time has flown by as fast as [...]