Update on Ms Brandi Jane

As most of you know Brandi has been having some problems for the past few months. We first noticed that she was urinating in the house. This is very unusual for either of our dogs and we figured there must be a medical cause. The situation got worse while we were traveling to Florida earlier in the year. While in Tampa we took her to a Vet to have her checked out and he said he thought it was a bladder infection and put her on medication. This seemed to help for awhile but then the situation got worse. Most of the time she seems to be unaware of when she wets. She will just get up and a wet spot will be there. This is especially upsetting when she does this while laying in Joanne's lap.

Upon our return to Oklahoma we took her to see her own Doctor. After several test, which included an ultrasound and taking a culture from here bladder, the Doctor has ruled out a tumor. He thinks the problem is incontinance related to her age. This is a common problem with older female dogs that have been spayed.

She is now on a new medication for incontinance and will probably have to take it the rest of her life. Since this new treatment just started this week it is too early to determine how this is working out. To be on the safe side we have "doggie diapers" for her to wear when we are out in the coach. This is what we did in April during the weekend we were out with our local camping club. She is not crazy about them and chews off the sticky tab and steps out of them any time we are not looking.

NOW FOR MY SCREW UP WITH HER MEDS:
Jo has been administering the new medicine. The bottle of liquid says to give her .3ML twice per day. That is point 3ML. This morning I was the first up and around since we were taking the car down for routine service and run some other errands. After feeding the dogs I preceeded to give Brandi her meds. With my eyesight getting a little dim I did not see the dot (point) in front of the 3ML on the bottle. Yep, you guessed it, I gave her three mililiters. That is three eye droppers full. Now she is just laying around in the darkest spot she can find in the house, which is up under my chair and desk by the computer. The Vet said to just not give her another dose today and by tomorrow she should be okay. Think I'll go back to letting Jo do the dog doctoring.