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I just had a nice cuddle with Sheba the wonder dog.
She's 10, getting old for a big dog. Her dad was a purebred Ridgeback (who managed to jump a five-foot fence to plant the seed), mum was a Malinois/Rotty cross. The best bravest smartest hound I've ever lived with. Amazing nose.
We live out in the bush and she's protected her turf from many snakes and the occasional feral pig.

After our previous Ridgeback died, I didn't want another dog, for a while anyway. My wife quietly arranged a visit from Sheba the rescue puppy, a confident and smart baby dog.
"Oh by the way, she's not actually Linda's dog, she's getting put down next week."

Lucky dog, lucky us.....
 
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Pertinacious Tom said:
We hope anyway. I recently got some really frightening medical news that made me think I might not outlive this year, let alone my dog. Now it once again looks like I have a good chance of outliving her. But we thought my brother had a toothache and a few months later he was gone.
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Wanted to just emoji this but none of them were quite right. Holy shit, Tom! Glad your med emerge is successfully behind you. Wishing you a long and full life!

My wife came home from a dogwalk a few months ago complaining of a severe toothache... it was a heart attack! Turns out that's a common symptom in women, which neither of us knew.

Because we took it seriously, called 911 and were lucky enough to get her and a good team into the Cardiac ICU in a hurry in 5 days she was out walking the dog again.

I'll never think of a toothache in the same way again!
 
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Willin' said:
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Wanted to just emoji this but none of them were quite right. Holy shit, Tom! Glad your med emerge is successfully behind you. Wishing you a long and full life!

My wife came home from a dogwalk a few months ago complaining of a severe toothache... it was a heart attack! Turns out that's a common symptom in women, which neither of us knew.

Because we took it seriously, called 911 and were lucky enough to get her and a good team into the Cardiac ICU in a hurry in 5 days she was out walking the dog again.

I'll never think of a toothache in the same way again!
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Women can have very strange MI symptoms. Great that the hospital understood what to look for…they all don’t.
 
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Willin' said:
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Wanted to just emoji this but none of them were quite right. Holy shit, Tom! Glad your med emerge is successfully behind you. Wishing you a long and full life!

My wife came home from a dogwalk a few months ago complaining of a severe toothache... it was a heart attack! Turns out that's a common symptom in women, which neither of us knew.

Because we took it seriously, called 911 and were lucky enough to get her and a good team into the Cardiac ICU in a hurry in 5 days she was out walking the dog again.

I'll never think of a toothache in the same way again!
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Thanks! In unrelated news, I recently learned what pleurisy is. It means chest pain when breathing. I was having some chest pain, went to bed, and it got worse. It hurt a lot, especially if I tried to inhale. I knew that this could be really bad, but faced with the choice of lying there in agony unable to breathe and with a serious risk of death by heart failure or subjecting myself to the medical care establishment... I stayed in bed. If you don't go to a doc, they can't scare you!
 
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Pertinacious Tom said:
Thanks! In unrelated news, I recently learned what pleurisy is. It means chest pain when breathing. I was having some chest pain, went to bed, and it got worse. It hurt a lot, especially if I tried to inhale. I knew that this could be really bad, but faced with the choice of lying there in agony unable to breathe and with a serious risk of death by heart failure or subjecting myself to the medical care establishment... I stayed in bed. If you don't go to a doc, they can't scare you!
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Well…..pleurisy is an inflammation of the lining of your lungs from any number of causes….often infection. The pain is because as you breathe and expand your lungs the inflamed section rubs and it hurts. Sometimes a lot. It can resolve but if it’s infectious, the miracle of antibiotics knocks it out pretty quickly. It’s different than a heart attack in that the intensity and quality of the pain in a heart attack generally does not change much with chest excursion. However…….it can be difficult to distinguish between a pleurisy and a pulmonary embolism which is a true emergent condition and can get much worse very quickly. I could usually tell the difference by history and listening to lung sounds but that’s not a skill most folks can employ.

By the way…..putting off diagnosis and appropriate treatment only makes it worse if it’s anything but a minor owie…..dangerously worse in many cases.

But……..we all choose.
 
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I had a bout of pericarditis a few years ago...yikes that hurt. put mme in the hospital ER, then cardiac ward for a daay and then...nothing. But man, that hurt.
 
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Point Break said:
Well…..pleurisy is an inflammation of the lining of your lungs from any number of causes….often infection. The pain is because as you breathe and expand your lungs the inflamed section rubs and it hurts. Sometimes a lot. It can resolve but if it’s infectious, the miracle of antibiotics knocks it out pretty quickly. It’s different than a heart attack in that the intensity and quality of the pain in a heart attack generally does not change much with chest excursion. However…….it can be difficult to distinguish between a pleurisy and a pulmonary embolism which is a true emergent condition and can get much worse very quickly. I could usually tell the difference by history and listening to lung sounds but that’s not a skill most folks can employ.

By the way…..putting off diagnosis and appropriate treatment only makes it worse if it’s anything but a minor owie…..dangerously worse in many cases.

But……..we all choose.
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Thanks for the info. The cause is still unknown so there was no treatment. It went away. My wife already chewed me out for my aversion to medical care. I'm not sure I have changed.

But back to dogs. I miss mine! I'm in the Keys to go fishing and she's not. My brother is taking care of her and the rest of our critters. He has only ever really liked one dog, our greyhound, who was like a really big, mellow, friendly cat. The more dog-like a dog, the less he likes the dog. Starr is over 1,000% dog. She's a LOT of dog. He's completely head over heels in love with her. It's inexplicable but funny to watch. She does dog things like jump up on his cart and lick his face and he HATES dog things like that, except from her.
 
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The Clydesdales are in my tiny town this weekend and I watched them assemble the hitch (all 8 horses). Quite a process and such beautiful animals. But I loved seeing the Dalmatian sitting proudly in the wagon. They were parading into town to do actual beer deliveries to local pubs.
 

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Sure we do.

We need Dalmatians, just not to deliver utility beer.

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