Well, we made our visit to Auburn University's small animal clinic on Thursday. We left at 5am and got there at 9am. We thought it would take quite a bit longer so our appt. wasn't until 11. With 2 hrs to kill the people at Auburn suggested a park with some walking trails and we headed there. The pups had a blast and we enjoyed ourselves as well.
Anyway, after talking with several vets there they decided on a course of action and we left to go kill some more time and wait for them to call us to let us know they were done. They were going to shoot for being done by 4pm so around that time we headed back even though we hadn't heard from them. About 4:30pm they came out to the waiting room to tell us they were running behind. They ended up getting done around 6pm. Here are the things they did:
Full blood work-up
Chest X-rays
Abdomen X-rays
Esophogram (Basically a moving x-ray where they feed her and watch the food as it travels down her throat, into her stomach, and out of her stomach)
Addison's Blood test
Anyway, bottom line is they don't know what's wrong with her. Everything they did came back normal except the blood work. She had some low counts so they had us get Daisy re-checked with our vet. Her levels were improved but some were still slightly low. Our vet said he wasn't too concerned but he went ahead and sent the bloodwork to a pathologist for review.
Auburn told us to put Daisy on a med regime of Prilosec and Reglen. We will try her on this for about a month. If it doesn't work we will go back to Auburn and they will do a second endoscopy (a vet in JAcksonville did the first one last year). Auburn though will go into Daisy's stomach and upper intestine and take biopsies. The first vet took no biopsies and just looked at Daisy's esophagus. Anyway, we'll see what happens. The good news is that they were really nice and the price was MUCH better than I expected. I would definitely recommend if anyone has unusual issues with their dogs or their dog needs a major procedure to go to a university.
So basically it's a wait and see. We'll get the Addisons tests results next week, but we really don't think that's what she has.

Anyway, after talking with several vets there they decided on a course of action and we left to go kill some more time and wait for them to call us to let us know they were done. They were going to shoot for being done by 4pm so around that time we headed back even though we hadn't heard from them. About 4:30pm they came out to the waiting room to tell us they were running behind. They ended up getting done around 6pm. Here are the things they did:
Full blood work-up
Chest X-rays
Abdomen X-rays
Esophogram (Basically a moving x-ray where they feed her and watch the food as it travels down her throat, into her stomach, and out of her stomach)
Addison's Blood test
Anyway, bottom line is they don't know what's wrong with her. Everything they did came back normal except the blood work. She had some low counts so they had us get Daisy re-checked with our vet. Her levels were improved but some were still slightly low. Our vet said he wasn't too concerned but he went ahead and sent the bloodwork to a pathologist for review.
Auburn told us to put Daisy on a med regime of Prilosec and Reglen. We will try her on this for about a month. If it doesn't work we will go back to Auburn and they will do a second endoscopy (a vet in JAcksonville did the first one last year). Auburn though will go into Daisy's stomach and upper intestine and take biopsies. The first vet took no biopsies and just looked at Daisy's esophagus. Anyway, we'll see what happens. The good news is that they were really nice and the price was MUCH better than I expected. I would definitely recommend if anyone has unusual issues with their dogs or their dog needs a major procedure to go to a university.

So basically it's a wait and see. We'll get the Addisons tests results next week, but we really don't think that's what she has.