More of Megs story .... long

Cross posted in SiSu and the cafe'

jenny at w*rk...

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It must be nice to be able to help research Len

Anita...

Most of you know the story of Meg and her Hepatitus problems that

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Smokey...

Len that is very interesting information. You and Meg may be the centre of
future research !Even some treatment. Good luck with the interview and best
wishes to lovely Meg ( and your lovely self too )

No need to apologise Len, this is of interest to many in here ( including
me ) Thanks for the update.
Hope you are both keeping well.

believe it or not started just over 3 years ago when i noticed she had
gone yellow, she was just about 3 years old. Her skin was a toal colour,
ears, inside her mouth, belly and so on. The vet referred her to The

Tickettyboo...

She's a star , outdoing all the predictions :-) Amazing what love can do
isn't it?

Bristol University Training Veterinary School and diagnostic centre.
They kept her in and did a liver biopsy and other tests and told me she
had Hepatitus they were so sorry but just take her home and enjoy the
time left. Since then Vets bills have come to just about £8000 (on
insurance thank goodness) and as far as i am concerned i will do
whatever it takes to look after and as long as she is not in distress of
any kind.
Langford took a history of her pedigree and other details.

Today i had a phone call from Langford asking about Meg and her
current details, we know she has only 2cm of Liver left.
They told me that in English Springer Spaniels they have seen a lot now
with Liver problems mostly in the Working strain not the show strain and
females and are still trying to get to the bottom of it. They confirmed
that other caretakers of the dogs say they are always ravenous for some
reason.
They asked if it was ok for The English Springer Health Committee could
contact me aand of course i agreed

Aries...

Interesting post Len, I hope that the English Spring Health Committee
discover why this is happening to the females in the breed and can find a
way of preventing it in the future.

BunnyHare...

Ooh Meg and Len are going to be famous. Hopefully they will learn
something that might help Meg and others like her.

Rabbit...

Meg could be famous for her part in the research.

Just thought i would let you know :) sorry for the long post

BoyPete...

Thanks for that Len. We all know why Meg continues to successfully fight the
desease, not withstanding the vets efforts of course, and that is your love
and kindness. It may well bet that Megs story may lead to treatment
developments, lets hope so.
ATB mate
Pete

biffo...

Dont worry about it Len, it is good that you keep us up to date about you
and Megs trouble's, they make very intresting reading, a real life story and
what could well turn out to be a life saver for other dogs, good luck to you
both.....

Troy's Human...

No problem Len - anything about Meg always welcome.

As always - thinking of Meg a lot.

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

Thanks for that Len.

Tickettyboo...

Someday, hopefully a long , long time from now, you will be able to think
back to this and be so proud that Meg has helped others. For now, its
great that she is happy and with you.

Anita...

Thanks for that, Len - let us hope that they might be able to do
something, however little, to help her :)

noreen...

That is brilliant Len they may find out was has caused it !! you always feel
better if you know someone
else has the same don't you .lots of love to Meg and you ;-)))))

Rabbit...

No apologies needed. I thought it an interesting story.