[Dailydrool] Gus and Cardiomyopathy

[Mucci, Annette]

I sincerely hope that Gus's new forever home truly understands the
seriousness of cardiomyopathy.  It is treatable but it is a very serious
disease.

I lived it for 4 years with Cassie, and between her cancer and the
cardiomyopathy, it all eventually sent her to the bridge.

Dogs can live on medication but you still have to be careful with all
their activity.  It is nothing to mess around with or take lightly.  

The thing that I encountered was that the drug company that made her
medicine decided that they didn't make enough of a profit on it....like
in her last 3 months that she was living.  In my most crucial time of
needing her medicine to work, there was a shortage.  They just stopped
making it.  I think I scarfed up every 200 mg tablet of mexiltene in
western pa in those 3 months and then I could only get 150's.  And
milligram dosage does make a different.  I don't think that helped her
survival time but there wasn't anything else I could do.  And talk about
a woman in panic mode.  I would have sold my soul to get her that
medicine, but it just wasn't simply available.  Anywhere.  I think I
called every manufacturer and pharmacy between here and Canada in those
last months.  

We send lots and lots of drool for Gus to find the right family to take
care of him.  

Annette (Maya & Cassie atb both from heart failure), Schroeder, Sophie,
Apollo & Cash
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