Poor Sumi - 7-27-09
Should have figured that the good Saturday would preclude not so good news today....Sumi and I went up to Northbrook this morning for her neurologist appointment. The Emergency Clinic was filled with dogs with so many awful problems and it was just packed - ended up sitting on the floor with Sumi for an hour waiting to be seen. I was pretty stressed out just being around so many hurting fur babies....and so much sadness. And I can't imagine how stressful that was for Sumi.
When we were finally seen, the neurologist asked how we both were doing, because I had told him my story and the story of Sumi and I and what we've gone through together at our last visit. He wasn't surprised to hear that I had an episode myself last week and was really concerned.
He then showed me Sumi's MRI. The chronic narrowing of that spinal canal is so obvious and it just doesn't look good. He was impressed with how she was walking, but was disappointed in her drooping tail. And then he saw her on a slippery surface and she couldn't really get stabilized. He then pushed on the area of concern with his fingers and made Sumi scream and hide under a table. It was awful.
She had her last steroid on Saturday, and so we will go the next month without steroids, only pain medicine and rest and confinement. In one month we will have to go back to the neurologist and either talk about surgery or something else. He is worried because she's still in pain and thinks it could get worse if she doesn't show improvement in that month. And without surgery it will be much worse....
It wasn't the news that I wanted to hear....I hadn't even been nervous about today because I wanted to think she'd really been improving....so it kind of caught me off guard to see her so hurt and vulnerable again.
I really need this next month to be miraculous for her....
Anyway, it was good I don't work on Mondays until 1 p.m. because I got Sumi back home and changed clothes just in time to come to work.....
When we were finally seen, the neurologist asked how we both were doing, because I had told him my story and the story of Sumi and I and what we've gone through together at our last visit. He wasn't surprised to hear that I had an episode myself last week and was really concerned.
He then showed me Sumi's MRI. The chronic narrowing of that spinal canal is so obvious and it just doesn't look good. He was impressed with how she was walking, but was disappointed in her drooping tail. And then he saw her on a slippery surface and she couldn't really get stabilized. He then pushed on the area of concern with his fingers and made Sumi scream and hide under a table. It was awful.
She had her last steroid on Saturday, and so we will go the next month without steroids, only pain medicine and rest and confinement. In one month we will have to go back to the neurologist and either talk about surgery or something else. He is worried because she's still in pain and thinks it could get worse if she doesn't show improvement in that month. And without surgery it will be much worse....
It wasn't the news that I wanted to hear....I hadn't even been nervous about today because I wanted to think she'd really been improving....so it kind of caught me off guard to see her so hurt and vulnerable again.
I really need this next month to be miraculous for her....
Anyway, it was good I don't work on Mondays until 1 p.m. because I got Sumi back home and changed clothes just in time to come to work.....
posted by Kate @ 2:32 PM
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