[gemy]

Well the specialist appt went well. Xrays were good, and showed no obvious signs of worm infestation in either heart or lungs. And they want to repeat the antigen test for HW. So more blood was drawn. This doesn't mean that there are no worms only that she is very probably in the early stages of this disease with a light worm load.

Specialist is feeling that if all goes well, she will only need to be in the hospital for 2 days, but then home to 6wks of strict crate rest.

The catch is due to the short shelf life of the drug for treatment, they have to order it in for specific cases, and they quickly checked with their normal suppliers, who have none at the moment in stock. So as we are coming up to a long wkend here, he doesn't want to start the treatment just before the big exodus out of the city to cottage country. May 24 here is the typical wkend to open the cottage. He wants to make sure that if there is a complication all specilists are available; so we are probably looking at early next wk before she goes in for treatment.

So again we wait.

There was a couple of things I found somewhat concerning; namely I asked about whether he will test for the strain, and if he will participate in the research study by the American Heartworm Society by submitting a small vial of blood, as there appears to be a disease resistant strain mp3. He response; he didn't know of the study, he didn't know about mp3, and he said "at this point I know more about it than he does"! HUH?

He did go onto to say that he does not see a lot of heartworm infections, that Ontario is rather low in this disease.

Anyhoo that is it for now.