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Originally Posted by ladyjane  I should know more today. I really think he is going to be ok. His skin actually looked better yesterday when I took him down there.
I had bathed him in medicated shampoo and gotten all of the crud off of him. I also sprayed his skin with Gentacyn and it seemed to dry it up a bit. I am SO hopeful this is nothing major...and also praying he will not come up heartworm positive.
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Originally Posted by ladyjane Sonny update!
Thankfully, he is heartworm negative and also does not have mange. (I did not think he did, but you never know for sure until a skin scraping is done.)
The vet thinks it is either hypothyroidism or possibly Cushings. We will know more in a couple of days when the lab results are in.
I did not hear anything about his skin. As I said yesterday, it did look better ...so it just may not be a real issue. I am getting short text messages from her, so will probably know more later when we talk. | This is amazing. Things are really working out for this little guy. I'm not very familiar with Cushings, but hypothyroidism is easy & fairly inexpensive to treat so I'll say a prayer. Linda, thanks for sharing these happy updates! 
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