Sorry, last night I was watching Glee while blogging, so I didn't really get into the details. Dr. John pulled some of JC's joint fluid out before he injected him, and it should be an egg-like consistency. Sticky, and it should string itself when you dab your finger and "pull" it....Jimmy's was like water. It was completely liquid, almost no pull to it whatsoever. So, he said that's NOT good and luckily JC is on the Adequan so over time his joint fluid will improve, plus the injections will help him.
I asked John how often we will need to inject JC and he said if we're lucky, just this once, which is GREAT news! But he said, if need be, we will do it 1 or 2 times a year. Definitely something I can handle. My old horse Slim used to get done every 6 months like clockwork and he got EVERYTHING injected that could be injected! Then again, he was an ex grand prix horse who was still doing the 3'6" with me at age 17. He was a champ.
So that's the update on JC's joint juice! It sucks and he needs lots of fancy supplements to make him well. Lucky for me I listened to John months ago and put JC on Cosequin ASU (man, that loading dose was a $tinker. Thank God it's over and a mere $54 a month from now on!!!)
UPDATE: On my way in this morning I was listening to one of my favorite songs, "Chicken Fried" and a line stuck out to me, "There's no dollar sign on a piece of mind"...which I really translated in my "I really think I know the lyrics" mind to "There's no dollar sign on peace of mind" because that's how I feel about this whole experience with Jimmy. The vet bills are getting higher by the minute it seems, but knowing he's going to be all good makes me feel wonderful and at ease about it all. There's no dollar sign on peace of mind.
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