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[Wilson3]

I am trying to find out how many cases there are now in the general area.

[sodakgrl]

Hi!, I hope I'm doing this right....I have been reading all of the letters from everyone and getting so frustrated because i did not know how to replay, so hope this is going to get somewhere.  I have a 1year old GoldenDoodle that has been diagnosed with Blasto in April.  They treated him at first for Pneumonia, but with no response to the antibiotics, one vet was sure it was blasto, then 3 more agreed.  He has been on the Fluconozol for 3 weeks.  I do not wish this on my worse enemy.  This is like living a nightmare and watching my poor dog drown.  His symptoms seem to only be in his lungs.  Just looking at a snow storm on the x-rays.  He won't eat, and i have to force feed him.  He does not fight me thank goodness, just opens his mouth and lets me put the food down his throat.  However, he is getting tired of this and if i don't get the food just in the right spot, he holds it in his mouth and then spits it out.....fun.  I am feeding him the A/P Science diet prescription from the vets.  Just in the last week, he seems to be improving.  His head is up more and he is more alert.  Wags his tail when he sees my daughter, and even chased the cat down the hall way, but of course it is all short lived as once excited in the least bit, it ends up in a coughing bout.  I can't imaging what his sides feel like.  We live in Kenosha, WI and at first in learning about this terrible fungus, i thought it might be from the doggie daycare i was taking him to.  But the vet assured me it was from the soil....ok, so what will prevent him from getting this again?  If it is in my back yard?  It could have been from around the block, i feel like this is a phantom that lurks in dark corners striking innocent beasts.  He is too young to have this happen.  I have never prayed so much in my entire life.  I know i need to be patient but his not eating is really getting to me.  He went from 62lbs to 51 just this last Friday.  Why don't they want to eat?  My vet said he basically makeing a choice, eat or breath.   I am so grateful for this sight.  I have learned alot and hope, hope, hope all of our furry children get better.  Can anyone tell me the chances of him getting it again?

[Wilson3]

Hi,
I think we all know just how you feel. I am sooo sorry you to have to feel this pain.
There is no guarantee that he will not get it again. And yes I to look at everything and think "BLASTO COULD BE THERE"
It is sooo important to get them to eat. Blasto takes everything out of them. I guess I was lucxky with wilson he jsut would eat cause he wanted to please me (the nature of the breed he is) plus they are the bottomless pitts .
It was really hard in the beginning cause I have 2 other aussies that are fine.Wilson got blasto from a puncher wound last july of 06 treatment started for blasto in JAn of 07
He will be on treatment for a looong time yet. He is much better but still not 100% I to prayed a lot ,even went to one of the sisters at the hospital I work at. SHe even gave me holy water. I have learned to beleave in miraclaes and God. I would see sighs of improvment once a week in wilson. now I think the rest of the healing is going on inside. Today I took all 3 of my dogs Wilson include to the place he got blasto it is his favorite spot he has been down in the dumps a bit he love dto run and jump play frisbee but no more until all his legs are healed up i dont know why some dogs get it and some do not treatment is a bit different for everyone dont know why  stay positive and find a good friend to lean on one that is truely a animal person and that would understand yoru pain and cry let it out i spent weeks on the floor (he couldnt hardly walk and vet said no jumping) holding him and crying i thanked him and god everyday for fighting this and not leaving me yet it is very scary in the beginning but you get use to it i hate to say it . I do not know what will happen in the end but wilson is worth it all and so are my other dogs if they where to get this or anything have you added any supplements?
keep pushing the food down  try FROMM brand dog food my moms even eats it and she is very picky old age and bad live (my mom s dog)
have you tried the can food?
green tripe is great for them but give the plant emzynes and probotic with it should give tehm any ways helps the immune sysetem

sold gold and tripett make the can food

it sounds like you guys cought it earily

good luck to you
wilson3

[sodakgrl]

I am so glad for this sight....it helps so very much.  Angels do come in strange ways...Riley is having a good day today, after i wrote earlier telling my story, he ATE!! hard food all by himself!  I still gave him the canned stuff as i want as much in him as possible.  But it was a very encouraging sign.  Plus he is chewing on his bone.  This is a good day for him.  Oh, I did find the Tripe stuff you had mentioned a few days ago....smell bad is an understatement...he ate a tiny bit and i could not stand the smell so i tossed it.  I still have one can, but i really don't want to let it stay out as he may not eat it and it smells the whole house up.  Mornings are his very worse time.  Propably because he is restless and coughs alot at night.  What kind of supplements should he take.  I looked and there are so many.  I would like to give him something to help his appetite but not sure if giving him yet ANOTHER pill is a good idea.  He knows all the tricks.  One thing i was concerned with when you said wilson got it through a puncture wound....Riley was groomed before this happened, and they shaved his underbelly way too close, which created irritation, which in turn he licked raw, which turned into a very bad rash, open and bleeding looking.  Then a few days later he started coughing, we thought it was kennel cough and then the rest of the story is the nightmare.  I wonder if he got it through that wound...
Well, it is bedtime, thanks again for all the information.  I cannot tell you how this has helped.  Riley is so sweet and special to my daughter and me.
Sodakgrl

[Wilson3]

I am soo glad to hear Riley had a better day!!
and yes that tripet does stink very bad but very good for them it is from the 4th stomach of a cowhas all the good stuff in it VERY healthy for the dogs but does smell i give them about 1 table. with each feeding with the dry wilson had more canned food in the beginning mixed with dry but now he eats anything i give him
wilsos puncher wound was on his inner thigh he had to get 2 staples air also enterd his body and was under his skin wilson has to love of chasing chickmuncks and squirrels when in the woods also digging but dead trees so on one of his chasses a stick or somthing got him underneath after the staples came out he would favor that leg somtime only for a min then end on NOV. he would not us it at all
as for the supplements we us i did post them somewhere else on here  i think with Dirtbike 7th day (I hope she s doingbetter now)

Take care
Wilson3

[Pandomania]

OUR dog has been to the following places in Wisconsin: Saukville, Cedarburg, Grafton(near Lake MI), Neenah, Eagle River(Scattering Rice Lake).

Pando has also been to The Chicago Lake Front at a dog park (6-10miles?) north of downtown, it is unlikely that he got it there as it was late fall last year.

We live in Kalamazoo, MI and took trip through the UP over to Eagle River over the 4th....and from what we read Eagle River is a hot bed for this.

Fight the FUNGUS y'all.