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Do note the Harlow Icon. It's not the greatest picture of all time, but it's about the best I've got that works size wise for icons and Harlow's been around long enough to deserve his own Icon.
It's been around a month or so since he went on the Phenobarbitol to control the seizures, so it was time for Harlow to go in for a serum levels check to be sure he's at therapeutic levels.
The good news is he's not had any seizure activity since going on the med, at least not that we've been privy to, and there's usually one of us around to see anything happening. So, unless they're happening in the dead of night and he's leaving no evidence of same (which is entirely possible, to be perfectly honest...), he's likely not had a seizure.
We also wanted to get his snotty nose looked at. Harlow's always been a bit congested sounding since we brought him home, but in the last week or so he's gotten REALLY congested sounding with yellow crusty discharge around his nostrils. He can still breathe relatively okay and his eating habits haven't been affected, nor have his daily habits, so we figured we'd wait til he got his blood checked to get the snozz checked out. He's got a new nickname--in addition to Cheeto and Cheeto Burrito, he's also sometimes affectionately known as Darth because of his occasional heavy breathing...
Turns out the Dr. Lyn thinks the stress of everything going on in the house with Ra's final illness caused Harlow's chronic herpes infection to act up and to turn into a sort of sinusy infection/cold. He's on Clindadrops antibiotic to clear that yuckiness up. Should be finished up with that in about two weeks. Should find out tomorrow if the serum levels of Phenobarbitol are good to go, too.
In the good news department, Harlow's diet has been successful--he's lost about a half pound since his last visit! He's at around 12 1/2 pounds, down from around 13. He's on the right track to slimming down a bit. :) This will help his Darth Vader breathing a bit, too, I think.
In the other good news department, the other two idiots seem to be immune to Harlow's particular brand of herpes as neither of them are showing any sort of symptoms and they've been in sometimes close contact with him, so...so far so good! :)
It's been around a month or so since he went on the Phenobarbitol to control the seizures, so it was time for Harlow to go in for a serum levels check to be sure he's at therapeutic levels.
The good news is he's not had any seizure activity since going on the med, at least not that we've been privy to, and there's usually one of us around to see anything happening. So, unless they're happening in the dead of night and he's leaving no evidence of same (which is entirely possible, to be perfectly honest...), he's likely not had a seizure.
We also wanted to get his snotty nose looked at. Harlow's always been a bit congested sounding since we brought him home, but in the last week or so he's gotten REALLY congested sounding with yellow crusty discharge around his nostrils. He can still breathe relatively okay and his eating habits haven't been affected, nor have his daily habits, so we figured we'd wait til he got his blood checked to get the snozz checked out. He's got a new nickname--in addition to Cheeto and Cheeto Burrito, he's also sometimes affectionately known as Darth because of his occasional heavy breathing...
Turns out the Dr. Lyn thinks the stress of everything going on in the house with Ra's final illness caused Harlow's chronic herpes infection to act up and to turn into a sort of sinusy infection/cold. He's on Clindadrops antibiotic to clear that yuckiness up. Should be finished up with that in about two weeks. Should find out tomorrow if the serum levels of Phenobarbitol are good to go, too.
In the good news department, Harlow's diet has been successful--he's lost about a half pound since his last visit! He's at around 12 1/2 pounds, down from around 13. He's on the right track to slimming down a bit. :) This will help his Darth Vader breathing a bit, too, I think.
In the other good news department, the other two idiots seem to be immune to Harlow's particular brand of herpes as neither of them are showing any sort of symptoms and they've been in sometimes close contact with him, so...so far so good! :)
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