I was brave at the vet yesterday. Mum is getting to know the vet here a little more, but I haven\u2019t been so much. I was quite calm and very well behaved, as you\u2019d expect. He took me through for my scan and was explaining everything to me. It tickled when he shaved my tummy, but I did my best to stay still. Anyway, let\u2019s start with the good news. The nodule on my spleen hasn\u2019t changed, so nothing to worry about there. My gallbladder and pancreas look ok too, which is good news. It gets a bit more hazy after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve got the same heart condition as Shadow. It\u2019s one of those things that only develops in later life, but it has progressed since my last scan and there\u2019s some enlargement of the heart. I\u2019m going onto the same medication as Shadow and thankfully it won\u2019t cause confusion as I will be on the same dose. I think Mum can remember that fairly easily. It gets harder when we\u2019re on different amounts of the same thing, especially if she isn\u2019t concentrating on which of us dogs has our mouth open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there\u2019s my liver. For some reason there\u2019s some enlargement and obviously there shouldn\u2019t be. The vet said would I mind if he put a needle into it to take a sample. Now, I\u2019m a coward, so of course my first question was \u2018Will it hurt?\u2019 He assured me that he\u2019d use a local anaesthetic and I wouldn\u2019t feel a thing \u2013 except being given the local anaesthetic \u2013 I felt that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I have to wait for the results, but hopefully it\u2019s nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s enough to worry about with Shadow in the house. She seems to have entered her second puppyhood. She has started eating the post. She hasn\u2019t done that since she was very young. We\u2019ve always been really trustworthy. Anyway, Mum is going to have to buy a box to go behind the door to stop it happening to anything important. We\u2019re waiting to build an enclosed porch, which will get round the problem, but the planning department is taking forever so we can\u2019t do it yet. In the meantime, Mum has asked Shadow only to eat the bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aristotle<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was brave at the vet – Aristotle is here to tell you all about how his scan went yesterday. He really was a very brave boy.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[63,27],"class_list":["post-26542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-aristotle","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}