[Dori]

Hi Shawna and as always I thank you for your help. I do have your phone number unless you’ve changed it. I’m sure you don’t remember but you and I spoke just before I went on Brothers Complete food. I had been speaking with Richard, he spoke to you and you ok’d him to give me your phone # and we spoke. That was at least 2 years ago, maybe a little more like 2 1/2 years ago. My email by the way is [email protected]

Anyway, last years bloodwork for Hannah was perfect. This year’s bloodwork for Hannah was perfect in every other way with the exception of all four liver levels being extraordinarily high. Yesterday, after a 12 hour fast, she had specific liver function bloodwork. Her vet called me this morning and told me that her liver is not working as it should. She has seen much higher levels on this test come back on other dogs, but regardless, she said this is not good. So, I have to have Hannah at vet in the a.m. where they will do x-ray, ultrasound looking for tumors in liver, gallbladder or anywhere in the area that may be causing liver to not function normally. At my request they will also perform testing for Cushing’s. Not because of the liver issues but because of Hannah’s other symptoms that I’ve justified for other reasons I’m now questioning myself. She said she can certainly do the test while they have Hannah there after x-ray and ultrasound. She said if that will ease my mind then it’s no problem to do it. That there is always the possibility that she has both things going on. Dogs, like humans, can have multiple medical issues. When I picked her up yesterday the vet gave me a bottle of Denamarin and asked that I have her half a tablet at least one hour before her meal. Same meal every day so I’ve picked her dinnertime meal. She also gave me Milk Thistle to add to one of her meals. So that will go with the breakfast meal. We’ll see what the next steps are after the results from tomorrow’s testing comes back. The last dog that we lost was Tracy, our 10 year old Tibetan Terrier, she died of liver cancer. One year all her tests came back normal, including all liver levels. The next years physical everything had gone crazy. What prompted the visit to the vet with her was that she had missed three meals in a row. That was not typical behavior for Tracy. That girl would never miss a meal under anything circumstances. She never came across a food she turned her nose up to. They did the liver testing and she was dead a month and a half later. Really really sucked big time. We were devastated. Anyway, Hannah has shown no such symptoms, none. It just came up at her regular yearly bloodwork done at her physical last Friday. I had noticed that she was drinking a little more water than usual but not anything crazy. Still acting like she was 7 or 8 years old. Still is for that matter. Still eating all her meals. Still jumping up and down with her two younger sisters while I’m preparing their meals. Still running to the fridge every time I open the door. They think every time the fridge door is opening it must be because something good is coming their way. Vet said that if all other tests come back inconclusive or no tumors, etc. etc. Then she we will re-test bloodwork after she’s been on the Denamarin and Milk Thistle for a month and see if the levels have gone down.