Mintz Update

Well, life was pretty boring this week.  No excitement for us pups what so ever.  Sigh.
I guess I had a better week than Mintz &Luka; both went to the vet.  Luka just had a follow-up chest x-ray.  She had been having chemo therapy for her osteosarcoma and has an occasional cough.  It's more of a gag really; probably laryngeomalacia or something.  She had this even before the osteosarcoma, but it could be slightly worse now.  The vet & J just wanted to make sure that the subtle change in her cough was not actually a lung metastases of the sarcoma.  Her lungs look good.  No changes, yeah!

Mintz got to go on an excursion down to Oregon State University.  He had those large toes on his R rear foot & walks oddly on that foot sometimes.  Dr. Radcliffe (who spoke at Silkenfest) had recommended Dr. Linda Blythe as a Greyhound sports medicine specialist.  Unfortunately, Dr. Blythe is not working in the clinic now, but she recommended one of her OSU colleagues.  Mintz said that even though Dr. Blythe was not working, she came to meet them at the clinic.  Mintz was very flattered.  J enjoyed speaking with her about Greyhounds in general.
Mixed results:  with Mintz's new injury from a few weeks ago, the OSU resident & vet student could not help but focus on THAT foot.  The good part of this is that they discovered another injury from that accident.  He tore his iliopsoas muscle up near his hip.  On their exam this bothered him more than either foot, even though the injury was not as visually obvious as the cut foot.  They recommended PT at a place in Portland.
Mixed feelings:  although they did find the muscle injury & refer MIntz to PT, the OSU folk never addressed the original foot problem.  J is quite irked that the vet that Dr. Blythe had recommended she make an appointment with NEVER joined them - just the student & surgical resident.  It was late (& J was post-call) by the time she realized that that vet was really not going to make an appearance.  Now she is annoyed at herself for not asking to speak with that vet before leaving.
This weekend we were supposed to go down to race at Cottage Grove, but that has been cancelled.  I hope J finds something else interesting for us to do.