One thing that was not in the "healthy plan" for our household was our animals. George was diagnosed last summer with lymphoma and Gracie has severe skin allergies. George was given the shortest time span of 4-6 months to live and he seems to be doing just fine; what we can see from the outside. Gracie is, well without exaggerating . . . . .
Miserable.
She has skin allergies that cause her skin to itch uncontrollably and when she constantly licks and scratches, it causes secondary problems on her skin. The summertime doesn't help, it gets much worse. We went through the entire month of April medicating her heavily. Which included antibiotics twice a day for the secondary bacterial infections forming on her skin, yeast medicine for the yeast making the itching even worse, thyroid medicine twice a day because her thyroid is low and aggravating the underlying issue, steroids to try to keep the itching and inflammation down, medicated shampoo twice a week to help the pads of her feet quit burning with itch and special cleansers followed by medicine to cool the burning and itching in her ears.
She looked and felt great after all the meds, but as soon as the antibiotics and yeast meds ran out, she was back to itching uncontrollably. So, after a sobering visit from the vet today (3 visits in 6 weeks with another one planned for next week) we are reminded that antibiotics, yeast medicine, thyroid medicine and steroids are most likely in the long-term, daily plan for her.
Sigh
It is exhausting and I am at a loss.
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