NinaA
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We celebrated Moonlight's 12th birthday on Friday, July 1. It has been a wonderful 12 years. She is unlike any other Newf I have had or have heard about. Smart and a problem solver. Funny and a sneaky girl. Adorable and wicked, sometimes all at once. Good, really good. Our vet's office says she is their best behaved patient - ever. And then ----- 4th of July, she starts collapsing. Four times in two hours. Speed dial our dear vet. Talked to her 3 times before we got to the ER. She needed tests the vet could not do alone at her office. She contacted ER and talked to the vet we must demand. Again, a really good vet who didn't try to operate or hospitalize, just treat. Tests were a shocker. Moonlight has two things wrong with her heart, probably related. Erratic heart beat and a large tumor on an inner wall of her heart. Well, at least we know. ER vet gave her maybe days. Only treatment was a pill that could also kill her. ER vet talked to our vet, talked to us. We took her home. Started meds. For 48 hours on the meds things looked stable. Then she went down again. This is not just a fall down, this is a blackout. No seizure. Scares her. 24 hours later it happens again. She is day to day and hour to hour. At 12 you can expect anything, but none of us expected this. Am in constant contact with our vet. Don't know what else to say.
