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Originally Posted by mylittlegirls 
Update for Melody:
I was able to speak with Melody's vet this morning and Krystal will be calling first thing in the morning for the necessary medications.
While talking with her vet, we both agreed that removing Melody from her current environment would be more stressful on Melody. She has bonded with the other puppy and the owner and being taken from them at this time would probably do more harm then good.
We are just going to get her stable for now and then think about the next step. I read from one of the posts above that they don't do liver stunts in California? They do in fact do them. You just need to know who to contact. Someone posted UC Davis,this might be a good possibility. My cousin was a teaching oncologist and I'm sure he knows someone that could help.
I'm going to call the specialist in Arcadia in the morning and see what he feels about treatment. This doctor does it all. If anyone can work on LS, he's the one to see. This guy is so good, he works on every type of animal. It doesn't matter if it's Tigers or the small of animals. He is known across this country because of his reputation.
I'll keep you posted on all updates but please keep in mind, Krystal is very upset and needs our support for now. Think how you would feel if you were facing this situation. It's sad but right now it's in God's hands and he work out the way it's suppose too.
Let's all just say some prayers that Melody condition will improve with the medication for now.
Kathleen
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who is this vet as i live in southern california as well? I am familiar with Dr Broome who does the scintigraphies here as i was referred to him for dee dee. UCDAVIS is in northern california i believe too far away. My friend from here flew to university of tennessee to dr tobias as she could not find someone she was comfortable with here and it was extremely expensive here as well. Also a lady from washington on liver shunt group drove down here with her maltese to have scintigraphy done by dr broome and had the surgery here in orange county by a man and the pup died right after - sorry to be bad news but wondering if it is the same guy - do not mean to be a downer but i would get this pup to ut as it will be cheaper with travel arrangements as it was for my friend and have not heard of a successful shunt repair in southern california.
Also my vet's best friends dog had an internal shunt done at ucdavis she told me and the dog died and her friend was sorry she had the surgery done. It was a large dog a boxer - UCDAVIS is known for nutrition schooling not shunt surgery - our vet is from there and has phd along with our dentist ran the small animal facility - I can ask them about it if you want and our vet also is friends with dr broome who does the scintigraphies out of tustin and los angeles.
If there have been some successful shunt surgeries here then that is great but i have not heard of one yet
I think my friend in los angeles was quoted $4000 for the surgery here in so cal
Also the other person is sasha on here and i have been trying to help her as jean dodds does the bile acid tests in Garden grove she is non profit and it is very cheap and also dr broome is in tustin right by her as well and the scintigraphy is $390 I believe at least it was when they wanted dd to have it and i called a couple years ago. He is the only one to do the scintigraphy in so cal and he operates out of tustin and a few days a week out of Los angeles.