Re: 02/16 J.D. +5 79 - per vet "Not Good......Excellent!!"
J.D. was 296 at +1, just before we left.
It was a harrowing? ride there. It's supposed to be 3 major highways there (maybe 6 or 7, if you count the little ones), but the GPS was taking me through all kinds of residential neighborhoods and industrial areas, and there must have been some miscommuniation :roll: I'm so bad with directions, and driving to unfamiliar places :-| .
We got there just before the appointment time and it took us 1 hour and 20 minutes when it was only supposed to take 55 minutes per the GPS when we started our journey.
J.D. was 150 at +3, while waiting in the waiting room for our appointment.
I had just enough time to grab a cup of coffee, as the vet got us right in. He weighed J.D. and looked in his mouth and said "Not good" and then he paused.. and said "Excellent". I said "Not good?" and he repeated himself "Not good,,, Excellent". He kept saying excellent. He said his mouth and teeth looked excellent. He said my post dental care of him was excellent, said everything was healed up perfectly and that he couldn't even tell a dental had been performed? He said J.D. "could be a Poster Child for after this procedure". He said he was given the antibiotics for the 2 weeks after the dental because of the diabetes and that diabetecs immune systems are compromised. He said I could start to only give him the dental drops once a day instead of twice a day (which I've been doing anyway, for the past week). I asked about teeth brushing, and he said I probably wouldn't have to, that the drops would probably be enough. I had him show me J.D.'s mouth, so I could see how many teeth he had left and he has no side teeth at all on the right side, and he has 1 upper and 1 lower (middle molar?) tooth that match up with each other on the left side, and 3 canines in front, and a few itty bitty incisors. I shook hands with the doctor, and it's just amazing how big (huge) this dental specialist's hands and fingers are for the work he does.
J.D. was 126 at +3.5, when we got in the car to start our journey home. And, it snowed on the way home.
J.D. ate another 1/4 can of FF on the drive home, and then turned around in his carrier, and I guess was giving himself a bath because I could only see his tail at that point, then he actually layed down in his carrier, and relaxed most of the ride home, until the point when I had to turn the speed control off, and he then stood up the rest of the way and faced me.
He was 79 at +5, when we arrived home, and he ate some more FF once he got inside the house.
TheBowHuntress said:
Good Morning and Wow Dyana! You must have an awesome vet as it sounds like you've got a bit of a drive on your hands bcatrun_gif
Dr. James Anthony is an awesome dental specialist and I would recommend him to anyone.
J.D. is now relaxing, and I think my
is ready. Yeah Coffee !! :smile:
