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Emma is ill
I took Emma to the Vet yesterday for routine maintenance - slight limp on right foreleg, new heartworm pills, microchip.
The Vet did a new heartworm test and Emma tested positive. Can't tell you how upset we are...
In order for the test to show positive she would have had to have them for 6/7 months so that means sometime between late Nov and March she became infected. I don't give her pills during winter because we don't have misquitos... this is all my fault - now my baby girl is very sick.
We have started her on two baby asprin and two antibodics a day for two weeks. On the 11th Emma goes to Vet for 2/3 day stay while they give her two shots to kill the heartworms. After that we MUST keep her calm and minimal movement for 6/8 weeks while the worms desolve. After that she goes back on Intercepter and a few months later is retested. If she is still positive we start all over again.
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