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Natasha Visits TED
Today was Natasha's quarterly visit to see TED. Natasha visits TED
every 3 months because she's borderline CRF, which the doctor wants to keep a close eye on due to her age (17). When time came to go to see TED, Natasha was sleeping. This is a good thing, I think, because I knew she hadn't had a chance to empty her bladder recently and so the techs would be able to get a good urine sample from her. I picked her up and had her in her carrier before I think she knew what was happening. The way it works at my vet, you see the receptionist first. She (they're all women) gets the file, and then makes notes for the doctor about why you're there (pink sheets for girl pets, blue sheets for boy pets). If the top page of the file isn't full, they add the new notes to the bottom, if it is full they put a new sheet in and put the new notes on that. Natasha was there for her quarterly checkup and her annual shots, and this was added to the bottom of the existing top page. It took a bit for me to convince the receptionist that Natasha gets *annual* shots because she had a bad reaction to the 3-year type a while back. Now we're in the exam room, and Natasha is not happy. She's yet another in a long line of kitties and d*ggies that don't like this place. I requested that we see a very good doctor, Dr. Grant, who is the one who's been following her kidney problems all along. A lot of people like Dr Grant, so we had to wait a bit, making Natasha even more unhappy. Dr Grant arrives, and starts to go through Natasha's file. She reads the top page of the file, then reads it again. And then reads it again. Now I'm curious - and it turns out that the top page in Natasha's file is for a Jack Russell Terrier. How'd that get in there? Who knows... but Dr Grant guessed it was misfiled earlier in the week when they computers went down and everything had to be done manually. (before we left Natasha's file had a new top sheet with the correct notes - no idea if they figured out which JRT was missing notes in her file) Dr Grant does her hands-on exam. Did I mention Natasha wasn't happy? She even did a hiss-spit, and she *never* does a hiss-spit! Dr Grant took her to the "back room" for taking of urine, blood, and fecal (I forgot to raid the litter box) samples, and to get her shots. After a while I hear a cat being vocal from the direction of the "back room": rrreow Rrreeoooowww RRRREEEEOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!! The vet tech brought Natasha back to me and said she was very good about everything - except the taking of the fecal sample, at which point she got a bit "squirmy and loud" (I think I'd be more than a bit squirmy and loud if someone was doing that to me). I was also thanked for trimming Natasha's nails (first time someone's done that). Most tests are analyzed in-house, so it was only about 20 minutes for the results to come back. While we waited in the lobby (Natasha was back in her carrier, a friendly yellow lab (about 2 years old) was making the rounds in our area. Natasha did such a hiss-spit on him from her carrier that he actually jumped backward about 3 feet and everyone in the room turned to look (and chuckle). At which point the yellow lab starts barking at Natasha (the d*g's owner said that there are 2 kitties that boss him around at home, so he probably thought he was being brave back-talking a kitty that wasn't able to do anything to him) Natasha's test results: everything looked good, no infections found. As for her kidneys, the BUN (Blood Urea Nitrogen) value was actually in the normal range, while her Creatinine value was staying about where it has been, just slightly high from the normal range. Dr Grant added "Oh, and she might be in this mood she's in because her bladder is *really* full right now". So I'm to keep hydrating Natasha once or twice a week as needed, and bring her back in 3 months for another checkup, but everything this time was perfectly normal for her The doctor and techs escaped another unhappy patient relatively unscathed. And Natasha made a beeline to the litter box when we returned home ^.^ Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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Very happy to hear that Natasha got a good vet report! Sounds like she's
doing great for a grand dame of 17! One suggestion, maybe tell the receptionist that you'd like to be placed in an exam room to wait; I always ask to be placed to wait in an exam room if one's available because it's so much quieter. I did this on when I took Omar in and had to wait for 3 hours on a walk-in and it helped immensely. Christine "Jeanne Hedge" wrote in message ... Today was Natasha's quarterly visit to see TED. Natasha visits TED every 3 months because she's borderline CRF, which the doctor wants to keep a close eye on due to her age (17). When time came to go to see TED, Natasha was sleeping. This is a good thing, I think, because I knew she hadn't had a chance to empty her bladder recently and so the techs would be able to get a good urine sample from her. I picked her up and had her in her carrier before I think she knew what was happening. The way it works at my vet, you see the receptionist first. She (they're all women) gets the file, and then makes notes for the doctor about why you're there (pink sheets for girl pets, blue sheets for boy pets). If the top page of the file isn't full, they add the new notes to the bottom, if it is full they put a new sheet in and put the new notes on that. Natasha was there for her quarterly checkup and her annual shots, and this was added to the bottom of the existing top page. It took a bit for me to convince the receptionist that Natasha gets *annual* shots because she had a bad reaction to the 3-year type a while back. Now we're in the exam room, and Natasha is not happy. She's yet another in a long line of kitties and d*ggies that don't like this place. I requested that we see a very good doctor, Dr. Grant, who is the one who's been following her kidney problems all along. A lot of people like Dr Grant, so we had to wait a bit, making Natasha even more unhappy. Dr Grant arrives, and starts to go through Natasha's file. She reads the top page of the file, then reads it again. And then reads it again. Now I'm curious - and it turns out that the top page in Natasha's file is for a Jack Russell Terrier. How'd that get in there? Who knows... but Dr Grant guessed it was misfiled earlier in the week when they computers went down and everything had to be done manually. (before we left Natasha's file had a new top sheet with the correct notes - no idea if they figured out which JRT was missing notes in her file) Dr Grant does her hands-on exam. Did I mention Natasha wasn't happy? She even did a hiss-spit, and she *never* does a hiss-spit! Dr Grant took her to the "back room" for taking of urine, blood, and fecal (I forgot to raid the litter box) samples, and to get her shots. After a while I hear a cat being vocal from the direction of the "back room": rrreow Rrreeoooowww RRRREEEEOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!! The vet tech brought Natasha back to me and said she was very good about everything - except the taking of the fecal sample, at which point she got a bit "squirmy and loud" (I think I'd be more than a bit squirmy and loud if someone was doing that to me). I was also thanked for trimming Natasha's nails (first time someone's done that). Most tests are analyzed in-house, so it was only about 20 minutes for the results to come back. While we waited in the lobby (Natasha was back in her carrier, a friendly yellow lab (about 2 years old) was making the rounds in our area. Natasha did such a hiss-spit on him from her carrier that he actually jumped backward about 3 feet and everyone in the room turned to look (and chuckle). At which point the yellow lab starts barking at Natasha (the d*g's owner said that there are 2 kitties that boss him around at home, so he probably thought he was being brave back-talking a kitty that wasn't able to do anything to him) Natasha's test results: everything looked good, no infections found. As for her kidneys, the BUN (Blood Urea Nitrogen) value was actually in the normal range, while her Creatinine value was staying about where it has been, just slightly high from the normal range. Dr Grant added "Oh, and she might be in this mood she's in because her bladder is *really* full right now". So I'm to keep hydrating Natasha once or twice a week as needed, and bring her back in 3 months for another checkup, but everything this time was perfectly normal for her The doctor and techs escaped another unhappy patient relatively unscathed. And Natasha made a beeline to the litter box when we returned home ^.^ Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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Very happy to hear that Natasha got a good vet report! Sounds like she's
doing great for a grand dame of 17! One suggestion, maybe tell the receptionist that you'd like to be placed in an exam room to wait; I always ask to be placed to wait in an exam room if one's available because it's so much quieter. I did this on when I took Omar in and had to wait for 3 hours on a walk-in and it helped immensely. Christine "Jeanne Hedge" wrote in message ... Today was Natasha's quarterly visit to see TED. Natasha visits TED every 3 months because she's borderline CRF, which the doctor wants to keep a close eye on due to her age (17). When time came to go to see TED, Natasha was sleeping. This is a good thing, I think, because I knew she hadn't had a chance to empty her bladder recently and so the techs would be able to get a good urine sample from her. I picked her up and had her in her carrier before I think she knew what was happening. The way it works at my vet, you see the receptionist first. She (they're all women) gets the file, and then makes notes for the doctor about why you're there (pink sheets for girl pets, blue sheets for boy pets). If the top page of the file isn't full, they add the new notes to the bottom, if it is full they put a new sheet in and put the new notes on that. Natasha was there for her quarterly checkup and her annual shots, and this was added to the bottom of the existing top page. It took a bit for me to convince the receptionist that Natasha gets *annual* shots because she had a bad reaction to the 3-year type a while back. Now we're in the exam room, and Natasha is not happy. She's yet another in a long line of kitties and d*ggies that don't like this place. I requested that we see a very good doctor, Dr. Grant, who is the one who's been following her kidney problems all along. A lot of people like Dr Grant, so we had to wait a bit, making Natasha even more unhappy. Dr Grant arrives, and starts to go through Natasha's file. She reads the top page of the file, then reads it again. And then reads it again. Now I'm curious - and it turns out that the top page in Natasha's file is for a Jack Russell Terrier. How'd that get in there? Who knows... but Dr Grant guessed it was misfiled earlier in the week when they computers went down and everything had to be done manually. (before we left Natasha's file had a new top sheet with the correct notes - no idea if they figured out which JRT was missing notes in her file) Dr Grant does her hands-on exam. Did I mention Natasha wasn't happy? She even did a hiss-spit, and she *never* does a hiss-spit! Dr Grant took her to the "back room" for taking of urine, blood, and fecal (I forgot to raid the litter box) samples, and to get her shots. After a while I hear a cat being vocal from the direction of the "back room": rrreow Rrreeoooowww RRRREEEEOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!! The vet tech brought Natasha back to me and said she was very good about everything - except the taking of the fecal sample, at which point she got a bit "squirmy and loud" (I think I'd be more than a bit squirmy and loud if someone was doing that to me). I was also thanked for trimming Natasha's nails (first time someone's done that). Most tests are analyzed in-house, so it was only about 20 minutes for the results to come back. While we waited in the lobby (Natasha was back in her carrier, a friendly yellow lab (about 2 years old) was making the rounds in our area. Natasha did such a hiss-spit on him from her carrier that he actually jumped backward about 3 feet and everyone in the room turned to look (and chuckle). At which point the yellow lab starts barking at Natasha (the d*g's owner said that there are 2 kitties that boss him around at home, so he probably thought he was being brave back-talking a kitty that wasn't able to do anything to him) Natasha's test results: everything looked good, no infections found. As for her kidneys, the BUN (Blood Urea Nitrogen) value was actually in the normal range, while her Creatinine value was staying about where it has been, just slightly high from the normal range. Dr Grant added "Oh, and she might be in this mood she's in because her bladder is *really* full right now". So I'm to keep hydrating Natasha once or twice a week as needed, and bring her back in 3 months for another checkup, but everything this time was perfectly normal for her The doctor and techs escaped another unhappy patient relatively unscathed. And Natasha made a beeline to the litter box when we returned home ^.^ Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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Very happy to hear that Natasha got a good vet report! Sounds like she's
doing great for a grand dame of 17! One suggestion, maybe tell the receptionist that you'd like to be placed in an exam room to wait; I always ask to be placed to wait in an exam room if one's available because it's so much quieter. I did this on when I took Omar in and had to wait for 3 hours on a walk-in and it helped immensely. Christine "Jeanne Hedge" wrote in message ... Today was Natasha's quarterly visit to see TED. Natasha visits TED every 3 months because she's borderline CRF, which the doctor wants to keep a close eye on due to her age (17). When time came to go to see TED, Natasha was sleeping. This is a good thing, I think, because I knew she hadn't had a chance to empty her bladder recently and so the techs would be able to get a good urine sample from her. I picked her up and had her in her carrier before I think she knew what was happening. The way it works at my vet, you see the receptionist first. She (they're all women) gets the file, and then makes notes for the doctor about why you're there (pink sheets for girl pets, blue sheets for boy pets). If the top page of the file isn't full, they add the new notes to the bottom, if it is full they put a new sheet in and put the new notes on that. Natasha was there for her quarterly checkup and her annual shots, and this was added to the bottom of the existing top page. It took a bit for me to convince the receptionist that Natasha gets *annual* shots because she had a bad reaction to the 3-year type a while back. Now we're in the exam room, and Natasha is not happy. She's yet another in a long line of kitties and d*ggies that don't like this place. I requested that we see a very good doctor, Dr. Grant, who is the one who's been following her kidney problems all along. A lot of people like Dr Grant, so we had to wait a bit, making Natasha even more unhappy. Dr Grant arrives, and starts to go through Natasha's file. She reads the top page of the file, then reads it again. And then reads it again. Now I'm curious - and it turns out that the top page in Natasha's file is for a Jack Russell Terrier. How'd that get in there? Who knows... but Dr Grant guessed it was misfiled earlier in the week when they computers went down and everything had to be done manually. (before we left Natasha's file had a new top sheet with the correct notes - no idea if they figured out which JRT was missing notes in her file) Dr Grant does her hands-on exam. Did I mention Natasha wasn't happy? She even did a hiss-spit, and she *never* does a hiss-spit! Dr Grant took her to the "back room" for taking of urine, blood, and fecal (I forgot to raid the litter box) samples, and to get her shots. After a while I hear a cat being vocal from the direction of the "back room": rrreow Rrreeoooowww RRRREEEEOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!! The vet tech brought Natasha back to me and said she was very good about everything - except the taking of the fecal sample, at which point she got a bit "squirmy and loud" (I think I'd be more than a bit squirmy and loud if someone was doing that to me). I was also thanked for trimming Natasha's nails (first time someone's done that). Most tests are analyzed in-house, so it was only about 20 minutes for the results to come back. While we waited in the lobby (Natasha was back in her carrier, a friendly yellow lab (about 2 years old) was making the rounds in our area. Natasha did such a hiss-spit on him from her carrier that he actually jumped backward about 3 feet and everyone in the room turned to look (and chuckle). At which point the yellow lab starts barking at Natasha (the d*g's owner said that there are 2 kitties that boss him around at home, so he probably thought he was being brave back-talking a kitty that wasn't able to do anything to him) Natasha's test results: everything looked good, no infections found. As for her kidneys, the BUN (Blood Urea Nitrogen) value was actually in the normal range, while her Creatinine value was staying about where it has been, just slightly high from the normal range. Dr Grant added "Oh, and she might be in this mood she's in because her bladder is *really* full right now". So I'm to keep hydrating Natasha once or twice a week as needed, and bring her back in 3 months for another checkup, but everything this time was perfectly normal for her The doctor and techs escaped another unhappy patient relatively unscathed. And Natasha made a beeline to the litter box when we returned home ^.^ Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:09:06 -0600, "Christine Burel"
wrote: One suggestion, maybe tell the receptionist that you'd like to be placed in an exam room to wait; I always ask to be placed to wait in an exam room if one's available because it's so much quieter. I did this on when I took Omar in and had to wait for 3 hours on a walk-in and it helped immensely. That's a good suggestion, but the practice is either very busy with all the exam rooms in use for exams or not busy at all so there's no ruckus going on. I usually keep Natasha in her carrier while we're waiting in the lobby, and she calmly entertains herself looking out its door at all the d*gs making fools of themselves ^_^ I'm sure her irritation today was mostly due to me pulling her out of a sound sleep, and everything that followed just added to it. In other words, she was just being fussy and cranky and didn't get a chance to pee ^.^ Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:09:06 -0600, "Christine Burel"
wrote: One suggestion, maybe tell the receptionist that you'd like to be placed in an exam room to wait; I always ask to be placed to wait in an exam room if one's available because it's so much quieter. I did this on when I took Omar in and had to wait for 3 hours on a walk-in and it helped immensely. That's a good suggestion, but the practice is either very busy with all the exam rooms in use for exams or not busy at all so there's no ruckus going on. I usually keep Natasha in her carrier while we're waiting in the lobby, and she calmly entertains herself looking out its door at all the d*gs making fools of themselves ^_^ I'm sure her irritation today was mostly due to me pulling her out of a sound sleep, and everything that followed just added to it. In other words, she was just being fussy and cranky and didn't get a chance to pee ^.^ Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:09:06 -0600, "Christine Burel"
wrote: One suggestion, maybe tell the receptionist that you'd like to be placed in an exam room to wait; I always ask to be placed to wait in an exam room if one's available because it's so much quieter. I did this on when I took Omar in and had to wait for 3 hours on a walk-in and it helped immensely. That's a good suggestion, but the practice is either very busy with all the exam rooms in use for exams or not busy at all so there's no ruckus going on. I usually keep Natasha in her carrier while we're waiting in the lobby, and she calmly entertains herself looking out its door at all the d*gs making fools of themselves ^_^ I'm sure her irritation today was mostly due to me pulling her out of a sound sleep, and everything that followed just added to it. In other words, she was just being fussy and cranky and didn't get a chance to pee ^.^ Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote:
The doctor and techs escaped another unhappy patient relatively unscathed. And Natasha made a beeline to the litter box when we returned home ^.^ So glad to hear that Natasha is doing so well. Frank's BUN was a little elevated, too, last time we checked, but his creatinine is fine (mine's not, though . Purrs that Natasha continues to do as well for a long time yet. -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote:
The doctor and techs escaped another unhappy patient relatively unscathed. And Natasha made a beeline to the litter box when we returned home ^.^ So glad to hear that Natasha is doing so well. Frank's BUN was a little elevated, too, last time we checked, but his creatinine is fine (mine's not, though . Purrs that Natasha continues to do as well for a long time yet. -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote:
The doctor and techs escaped another unhappy patient relatively unscathed. And Natasha made a beeline to the litter box when we returned home ^.^ So glad to hear that Natasha is doing so well. Frank's BUN was a little elevated, too, last time we checked, but his creatinine is fine (mine's not, though . Purrs that Natasha continues to do as well for a long time yet. -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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