Jeremy

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Jeremy

Jeremy is the puppy on the right. They were born twins and are identical except for a problem Jeremy has with his heart.

Update. Jeremy has a very serious heart condition ( pyloric stenosis) so sever he will probably only live to be 6 months of age he is being fostered in a wonderful home and is playing all the time, although he tends to get tired easily. Dr. Eyster at MSU says the right side of his heart is already quite enlarged.

June update:

Jeremy's heart is beginning to fail he is getting fluid in his lungs as Dr. Eyster said he would. All are thoughts and hugs go out to Debra Jensen his wonderful foster mom who's heart is breaking.

July 28th update very sad news.

Since Jeremy had made it to over 6 months old, we made an appointment at
MSU with the cardiologist to have him re-examined. They were delighted
to see him and ran some of the tests to determine how bad his pulmonic
stenosis and heart muscle had gotten. It was not good news. We knew
that his activity level was way down but they only gave a few more weeks
to live. He has a severe valvular and subvalvular pulmonic stenosis
with a mild tricuspid regurgitation. It is one of the worst they have
seen. His pressures on the right side of his heart are 200 times
normal. However, Jeremy could get a Surgical Outflow Patch immediately
to bypass the stenotic area of his heart. This surgery would give him a
fair to good prognosis and a longer life span of 6-7 years. Jeremy was
too young to handle the surgery 4 months ago but now that he is almost
full grown, he had a 70% chance of making it. The cost was over $1000
but the cardiologist already was willing to personally give $200 towards
the costs. Since our local group had recently had a fund raiser to
cover some of our vet bills, we did have almost $800 left over. After
discussing this all with Deb, the foster mom, she was willing to take
the chance as she really has come to care a lot about him and hates to
see him want to play so bad but not able to physically endure much.

Jeremy had surgery yesterday. Everything was going well but they had to
stop his heart for just a few seconds for part of the installation of
the new patch. They could not get his heart started again. I am afraid
Jeremy was too young for the surgery before and now his heart was just
too tired to start up again after working so hard for so long.
We will still probably have to pay for the surgery but we did have the
money for it, so that is no problem. The only good thing is that Jeremy
did not have to suffer but we all wanted SO bad for him to be able to
play and rough house for a while like a normal puppy.