In a nutshell

The past few days, in a nutshell...Taken from an e-mail update I sent to Audrey. I was too tired to write so I bullet pointed everything. :)

Woke up on Sunday and Woody was breathing funny -- or at least I thought he was. So we took him to AERC and they did another chest x-ray. Things looked fine -- but they told us until we had him evaluated to make sure he didn't move too much and watch him carefully.

We scheduled our appointment for today. I asked Andrew if he needed me there, because I had 3 big meetings at work today -- A Republican (Minority Whip) came to our offices, we're being profiled by the WSJ for Thursday publication and I have a big presentation tomorrow. He said "I guess if I have to be an adult I could go on my own but I'd prefer not to". Okay, you can only imagine how furious I was and, quite honestly, still am. So I decided to stay home. We also heard from our regular vet and he wanted to see Woody today as well.

Went to see the cardiologist this morning. Lovely man. Kind man. Told us what he'd be lookinig for and what modifications we'd have to make for Woody. Took him for his ultrasound. Came back. Woody is an anamoly. He has a stage 4/6 murmur but is only kicking back 10% of blood flow -- as opposed to the 50-70% he was expecting to see. He was surprised based on his diagnosis on Friday night.

Pissed off at Animal 911...

Really pissed off at Animal 911...

So he told us no modifications were needed and Woody should live, at least from a cardiovascular perspective, a long and happy life. We need to get chest x-rays once a year and just watch him for signs of any significant cardiac change.
He never had fluid around his heart and lungs -- no sign of congestive heart failure.

Really, really pissed off at Animal 911...

He doesn't know how things got so bad for us at Animal 911 and apologized. Said he was glad we didn't make any rash decisions.

Took Woody to see Dr. Swiatkowski.

He was really upset by the events of Friday night. Was going to call and find out what happened.

Thinks Woody might have IBD or an ulcer. We'll treat conservatively until we rule things out.

Woody is acting absolutely normally.