November 14, 2000
9 Week old "Marcie", has a heart
murmor...her whole chest vibrates... She
was a "broker reject" from the
mills of Mo. She weighs 4 pounds..barely
big enough for the miracle surgery! In case
you don't know about the miracle surgery,
click here!
Small Paws® Rescue:Bungee Goes to Texas A&M
Vet School
They make a tiny incision, and go in through
the femoral artery, and under anethesia,
and watching through a tiny video camera,
they send a tiny coil up there...sending
a blood clot to the heart, thus filling in
the hole! (the murmor) It is permanent and
will give Marcie a normal life, and a normal
lifespan! Without it, she may not make it
to 6 months old....
Tomorro, we arrive at Texas A&M
for the
initial consult. If everything
goes well,
she will have the surgery on
Thursday, and
we will start for home, on Saturday.
Marcie has "Room Service" for dinner....I
REFUSE to look into her eyes..nope...not
me..I ain't gonna do it..no way..no how...
"DON'T LOOK AT ME, I AM NOT GOING TO
LOOK AT YOU!"...(too late...I looked..I
am a goner)
UPDATE WEDNESDAY 11/15/00
(Marcie is being treated by the Texas A&M
Veterinary School in College Station,Texas.
979-845-2351 )
Oh Man...I didn't think Marcie was that bad..she
seemed normal to me..I almost felt guilty..taking
her for surgery now, before she seemed really
sick from this murmor.....then this morning,
at the motel, she started coughing..I thought
"Kennel cough"?
THANK GOD we got her here now..she is in
congestive heart failure..., and her lungs
were filling with fluid..she was starting
to drown in her own fluid...and also had
to be supported with oxygen, today. Here
she being examined with senior vet student
Karen Smirmaul.
I could tell by the look on Karens face..something was not right...
Here is our baby Marcie, with Dr. Sonjia
Gordon D.V.M.DVSc., the Cardiologist..who
along with Dr. Miller, saved our baby Bungee,
and our other two babies...When she told
me on the phone,that Marcie was indeed in
congestive heart failure, and had been started
on lasix..I couldn't believe it...and then
when she said that they had been supporting
Marcie with oxygen all afternoon,...I screamed
"OXYGEN!!!???WHAT??!"
It seems that Marcie had started going downhill,
just as of this morning... And to think...I
had actually thought about waiting until
after Thanksgiving to bring her here...(to
let our bank account recover a bit)...oh
man..I am so glad I brought her...this was
one of those "God" things, I think.
Today, after an echocardiogram, it was determined
that Marcie does have a PDA (The kind of
heart murmor they can fix), and she is scheduled
to be first..tomorrow morning...at around
8:00 A.M. I will be waiting in the waiting
room, for them to come and tell me it is
over, and everything is ok. Dr. Gordon, reminded
me that Marcie's viens, may be too small,
for the video cathater...(She is barely at
the minimum weight of 4 pounds) if her veins
are too small..she will have to go into regular
surgery on Friday..the crack-the-chest-open
kind of surgery.:(
Please pray..Marcie really needs to get
this non invasive kind of precedure. More
tommorow night.
I CAN'T BELIEVE I ALMOST WAITED
FOR 2 WEEKS
TO BRING HER HERE.:(
UPDATE THURSDAY 11/16/00
Thanks to all of you guys, and
the staff
at Texas A&M Vet School,
Marcie's surgery
is over and she is doing just
FINE! LOOK
at the pictures!
Marcie's surgery...on the monitor.
See the
little wire with the coil? Marcie
was a "one
coiler"...it only took one
coil, to
form a clot, large enough to
fix the hole!
Here she is, under the anethesia...see
those
little puppies on the sheets?:)
Here she is wakin up...I think those people
enjoy their JOBS!:)
They record her vitals, after surgery..
Tomorro, we do another echo cardiogram,
to
see how things look...More tomorrow!
UPDATE 11/17/00
Marcie was discharged from the
hospital,
today! SHe is perfectly healthy
now! Here
she is saying goodbye to the
doctors...
The soft Elizabethan collar,
is to prevent
her from licking her stitch.
That's her bear,
beside her.
These are her discharge papers. At first,
they though that she had a secondary problem..called
pulmonic stenosis...but then..it just disappeared!:)
See where she was in heart failure, and needed
oxygen., when she first got there? WHEW!
Marcie is playing..in high gear....man..I
hope she lets me get some sleep tonight..she
is WOUND UP..she feels SOOOO good!
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Marcie's surgery,
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%Robin Pressnall
3316 S. 72nd. W. Ave.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74107
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