Thank you all for your prayers! Wendy is happy to be home with her family. Her recovery will be slow and achy, but she will get better. The doctors are not yet sure if this will be a chronic thing. I sure hope not. Janice took her last breath the night before last. Thankfully, she did not linger and suffer. She is now at peace, and her family is left to comfort one another. Now to help daughter #4 survive the period between now and when her divorce is final in January. Her husband is being particularly cruel...devoting his time to his much younger girlfriend, pretty much ignoring his daughters (11 & 15), refusing to move out, and coming and going at all hours of the night...waking everyone up. To say nothing of his throwing a meager $100 on the counter each week for food and household essentials for the three of them. My daughter has been a stay-at-home mom for the past 11 years, at least, and will have a real struggle to get back into the workforce. Right now, her first priority is her girls. She is really determined and will be fine! And I thought old age would be peaceful and less stressful!! LOL I remember hearing years ago that the older your kids got the bigger the problems got. It's true!! And most of their problems were caused by other people! I could write a book! LOL Thanks again. You guys are the absolute best! Love, Sandy

What ive found out with my 14 yr. Old pug for her dad and Chihuahua for her mom Dog... Is that Her Panting Is like A Body Distress of the lack of hydration. It seems. Bc were freezing out trying to accommodate our dog. Belived friend and family member. When this is Noticed I Offer Water right away and it seems to help her COOL herself better. Also Diet IS A BIG DEAL SO IS WATER REVERSE OSMOSIS , SPRING WATER, DISTILLED ONLY NO TAP. DONT COOK THERE FOOD IN TAP EITHER!! AND THE FOOD- WE HAVE FOUND BOILED CHICKEN BONELESS AND SKINLESS ADD PEAS CARROTS, CALIFLOUR, BROCCOLI, OATS, cranberry s, WHITE RICE... MORE THAN RETURNS # S TO NORMAL WHEN STAYING ON IT OVER LONGER PERIODS OF TIME. SCIENCE DIET RENAL FAILURE DIET HOWEVER THAT DRY FOOD SWITCH IS BASED FEOM A Lack of knowledge about the disease.!! Not A Great idea to Starv a Old dog. Bc then her ability to heal herself and her immune responses Lack Heavily. Which is what is going to happen feeding science DIET RENAL failure only. So I offer it as a side. We have made it nearly 1.5 yr. Since being diagnosed... And our numbers are getting better each time. So far. Hope this helps

Arggggg another good post disappeared... I will try to do a short version again... Miss kitty does in fact have the beginning stages of kidney failure. I have been through about 4 vets, 3 cysto urinalysis, and 1 blood panel...I think Im up to about $600.00, but have alos had help from some great folks... The second vet place had 2 vets that kind of condradicted each other, which made me feel like something was not right. I had to go to one other vet, then I was ok with everything... One vet that viewed the blood panel told me that all her stuff was excellent for a kitty of 15...except some marginal stuff in the high which was creatinine, urea, and i thought she said cholesterol (kitty is not fat). Vet was surprised by the cholesterol ...Vet said just feed her that reduced protien stuff and these reading s will go back to normal...Their blood work machine didnt read things correctly at first so they did some manual, and stuff over again, I believe. The manual thing was a blood smear that revealed 15% white blood cells, which the vet again thought unusual...What do you guys all think of that? I heard that can be from virus, scared cat, and just cause of the kidney prob itself... Vet 2 called me and said, your cat has kidney failure and has 1 year to live ...I told her she should have a talk with her colleg, getting their stories straight! Anyways they want Miss kitty to go on Benazepril...What do you guys think of that stuff? Thanks big time for your guys support, I really appreciate being able to discuss with you. I havent always been poor, but i do love kitties. My cats have always been healthy and now are seniors.

I've only read the article posted. Was she making the kind of claim that leads to a suit? Not just sharing her pain about the cancer? That whole celebrity thing of my problems will help people? I thought she did go to her regular physician, too. That the emergency room was about the pain so bad it needed urgent attention that happened four times because her regular doctors didn't find anything wrong, but maybe I misread it? Whichever, there's a big difference between a proper discharge of "take this for the pain and see your physician Monday morning", or "we're going to have to send you to a specialist", and "you're fine, you're just fat", no matter who said it to her. In the US, at least, emergency rooms are also for a lot more than strokes, heart attacks and traumas. It's for broken bones, major cuts and burns, etc. Too many people also go there because they have no other access to health care, but that's changing with the new insurance structure. I had a small wound on my thumb that wouldn't stop bleeding on a weekend, and which was beyond my knowledge of first aid. I heard them in the emergency room (small hospital, not a trauma center) arguing over who would have to treat it because it was boring. The guy who did had to be reminded that it had to be cleaned first. He had some sticky stuff I'd never heard of that gives the clot something to form on. He could have just handed it to me and let me do it myself and the result would have been better. I've been to the major hospital emergency room recently with elderly relatives, and they have a much better culture, and were fairly compassionate and quite able. There's more to medicine than racking up interesting cases however.