Purr! Purr!
=(^+^)=
Andy has a follow-up appointment today. I learned yesterday that I have to have an operation to correct an aortic valve issue. The details are being sorted out, but it will be in Rapid City, South Dakota, and I will be away two days. Andy will be boarded at his veterinarian’s clinic unless I decide other options will be happier for him.
I wish you a successful operation and a speedy and full recovery, Doug.
Thanks, Dolly! I don’t particularly worry about it so much as transportation up and back. A trustworthy soul will take care of my kitty, so one worry is over.
Are you provided with transportation?
It’s available through a city-run system. I don’t use it because I still drive, but the nurses at dialysis noted others there use it. It’s all up in the air at this point. They know I don’t travel our of town during bad weather that can happen driving north to Rapid City. An hour north of here and a further hour and a half hours more to Rapid City tend to be really bad when it snows.
I hope you don’t intend to drive if the city-run system is available.
The preliminary checkup is in June here in Alliance. That was a relief because I thought it’d be in Rapid City. As for driving, I’d prefer the city-run system or a friend taking me, too! Returning home would be the most problematic afterwards, I imagine.
I am glad to know that it’s not during the winter. I hope you secure transportation arrangements by June.
Me, too. Arrangements for Andy are worked out through an organization called PAWS that helps pet owners with problems and cares for animals needing homes.
This is so wonderful! Now all you have to do is arrange transportation for yourself.
That’s the big one.
Thought so.
It’s in the works, but scheduling the operation still is in the works. I have an April physical with the doctor, who comes to the specialties clinic in my town.
It looks like things are proceeding, and you have time to arrange everything. I wish you luck!
Somewhat! Thanks, Dolly!
You are most welcome.
I wish you a speedy recovery!
Thanks! It apparently is routinely done, without complications most times. I hope to be one in that category.
Years ago my Dad had an aortic aneurysm with valve replacement and they have refined the procedure even more since then. He had the mechanical value back then and used to joke with the grandkids he was like the crocodile in Peter Pan- you could hear him ticking.
Lol! Cool!
Good luck with your heart!
Thanks! I think it will be ok.
I hope your surgery goes well and does you some good, Doug, and that you and Andy don’t have be separated too long.
Thank you, T.W.! I’m not aware yet of just what will be done, but it takes two days, with the second one part of the making sure I am not having issues.
Sorry you need to have surgery. You will be in my prayers.
Thanks! Much appreciated.
Happy Valentine’s Day
Thanks! Same to you!
Sending you and Andy both purrayers and prayers for your procedure to go well and for Andy to have an acceptable time while he has to be away from home and his Pop.
Thanks! We both will be upset to be separated. Andy and his late brother Dougy were separated from me for two and a half months when I came down with end term kidney failure, the went through two months of out of town therapy. We all missed the other(s) a lot.
Wishing you the best on your procedure, Doug, and little Andy while you are away. He will miss you those two days!
I still have no confirmation of when it might happen, and thanks!
Sending POTP your way from all of us here, Doug.
Good luck on your procedure and to Andy too.
Thanks, Kate. I wrote the wrong time for Andy’s appointment on a note, and had to get a new appointment. I am dragging from juggling all of these appointments we both have.
Andy got a little relief because I screwed up on his appointment time and had to make a new appointment. Mine has yet to be scheduled.
Good shots of Andy. Hope all goes well with the surgery. I’ve got a mechanical aortic valve. Be thinking of you, Sir, and Andy on his furlough. Haha!
I have no idea when that happens. I blew it on Andy’s appointment- wrong time, missed it, had to make a new one.
Roger Wilco – understood, Sir!
Yes, it was either there or Loveland, Colorado. As for aftercare, I haven’t learned much yet because the full details are in the air. I imagine zi will have a trip there first for an evaluation of my general health and complication evaluations based on that. I will post what happens in this blog, of course.
I hope all goes well for you, Doug
Thanks! I’ll keep everyone up to date on what’s happening.
all the good luck for the appointment and a good valentin es day for you two boys…
Thanks! Andy hasn’t figured out yet that this is a big day for him so I better close some escape routes while he is unaware….
Darling pictures of Andy! Many hopes for the surgery to go smoothly, and for a rapid recovery!
Thanks! It hasn’t been scheduled yet, so I don’t have more details.
Doug, hope all goes well with the surgery! And hopefully they’ll provide good aftercare for you, since that’s critical to recovery. I’m guessing they’re sending you all the way to Rapid City because they have a cardiac surgical team there? Take care and let us know if we can do anything from our end!
My reply to you posted somewhere on this page…. it is annoying when that happens.
Yes, there is a cardiac unit there that has successful results and good reports, which is all I ask. There’s that orher good one associated with University Hospital in Loveland. I am familiar through hospitalization with University Hospital in Denver, but that unit is nearly twice as far from Alliance as Rapid City. I’m tired of that long trip to Denver!
On WordPress I frequently end up commenting on another person’s comment, which confuses them greatly. “Do I know you?” I don’t know if it’s a glitch with Jetpack or something not working on my iPhone. (Apple devices seem not to like WordPress and vice versa.) Anyway, paws crossed! Having driven all over the Midwest and Mountain states, I know it’s no fun having to travel via interstate to a medical appointment. Especially if you have to go over a mountain pass to get there!