PopTart just had a check up at the vet.
After she had Karma, I noticed a bump on her back in the lumbar area. It was never hot or swollen. It just looked off to me. Combined with previous feelings that she was off, and her cross firing issues in the past I wanted to get her checked out before we went back to work.
So when we took Hootie for his re-check, she tagged along. Now, PopTart is notoriously difficult at the vet's office. They know her by name, and not for being warm and fuzzy. She's a menace. Now ideally she would have gotten palpated, had her heart and lungs listened to, and her temperature taken. She wouldn't allow the vet to palpate her back, so the vet observed while I did it. She did get a listen to her heart and lungs very briefly, then we sedated her to get the x-ray of her lumbar spine.
The news was 'eh'.
It wasn't particularly bad, nor particularly good. The good news was that we didn't see any indication of overlapping spinal processes (AKA kissing spine). The bad news was that we did see evidence of remodeling on the vertebrae, but not on the spinal processes. More on the actual body of the vertebrae.
The vet suspected it was an older injury which would explain the issues I was having with her in the cross firing and sometimes the explosive behavior. At one point this was probably painful then combined with her hormone issues caused her tantrums. Since she was never lame or had any physical issues during exams, nor was there the actual abnormality (which honestly is so slight that unless I take the exact photo angle it can't really be seen) that we never did an x-ray.
The vet said it doesn't appear painful, so our plan is to bring her back into work. Then re-evaluate if it gets painful or I notice anything that feels off to me.
Overall, I guess it was a good day at the vet? Hootie got good news, and PopTart got news.
Now we are putting together a work out plan for PopTart then a training plan, as I'm sure that we will need to re-work our pattern since she's been off for two years.
Wish me luck! 🍀
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