Awww, this SWEET little punkin'!! I swear she is SMILIN' even with all this stuff on her, what a little darling!
I am glad to hear this monitor is "on loan". I will tell you when I worked as a rep for implantable pacemakers and defibs for humans - I would have close-to-expiration devices that we could no longer implant in humans. However, these devices often still have about 5-6 years of life, potentially, still left in them. I was able to donate these devices FOR FREE to my local teaching vet hospital. My point is, many of these devices ARE (even some of the external ones) free for vets
from the human device companies - so I'm really pleased to hear that sometimes they extend this "freeness" to the actual patients.
Sometimes too, the teaching hospitals would call me to periodically come in to check these little dogs who were eventually implanted with one of the donated pacemakers - so I'd get to check their heart and pacemaker and hear how vastly their lives were improved bc their heart rate no longer just sat at the escape rate (really low). LOVED THAT small part of my job.
