Cushing's Disease Confirmed

We talked to our vet today and it is confirmed, Phin has Cushing's, so we are going to start him on medication. We opted not to dig in deeper and investigate for a lot of reasons. If it is adrenal, I don't want to have him go through surgery again. He's going to be 13 next month, so I'm just kind of like, it's not fair to him to put him through something like that. The spleen was a different story. That guy had to go. 

This can be managed through medication, and we're happy to do just that. Phin gets 3 pills a day as is, we'll just add more to the routine, and then we'll monitor him. 

My vet went through this with her older dog, and did the same thing. No surgery, yes medication. She said that she maxed out his meds, and he started peeing in the house again, and she and her husband did everything they could for him. She said that we should just listen to him when he is communicating. He'll tell us he needs to pee, follow his cues even if it is every 10 minutes. Limit night water (we do) and just generally see how long we can take him on this journey. She got 18 months, I'll be happy for a year, to be honest. And every day is a blessing to have him around. I like him. 

It is nice to work with her, and have her common sense approach. It's a blessing to have her in our lives. We have always had really good vets. I've only had one where I thought this is NOT the guy for us, and he retired 4 weeks after our first visit with his practice, and he sold the place to a very young and very wonderful woman. 

Anyway. Old bean will go on meds, and 10-14 days later, we take him back for some more blood work to see how the meds are working. If they are working too good it'll swing the other way and he'll get Addison's symptoms. Not good enough and we won't see improvement. So we'll monitor and balance, and get him just right. 

When we adopted a senior dog, I knew it wouldn't be a super long time that we'd have with him so I'm hoping for a good rest of his run. I've been thinking of emailing his former momma, it's been a while. I'll do that this week.

Today was a hella busy work day, I have a lot to do and a lot of people to follow up with, but right now, bed! No picture but those digits are below. 

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours of 250 steps

blood glucose:

9am: 160
4:45pm: 158
10pm: 138

food:

coffee, water 
9:30am: cherry 2good yogurt w/ half cup of granola
11:15: ramekin of mac & cheese with bacon; metformin
2:45pm: protein shake
5:15: left over bit of potato salad w/bacon (no ragrets)
6:30pm: pork loin in a marinade by Geoff, green beans; metformin+jardiance
10pm: triscuits+peanut butter