When I first heard that Bruce had Acute Renal Failure there was a cloud of question mark forming above my head. Piecing together from the words itself, all I know is that it's a Kidney Failure and it happened abruptly. But as to the mortality rate, the symptoms, the cure and the cause of this deadly disease, I had no idea. I'm this naive dog owner who believes that as long as you provide dogs with good shelter, food and love, everything will be fine.
I went through denial, depression and what not. Of course I immediately brought him to veterinarian care. I resulted to prayers and as much as I admit it, GOOGLE. Yes, I'm one of those who gets irritated and crazy being thrown into some crisis without suitable information. I'm the type who will exhaust every data I can to learn everything there is know about a certain topic. With this disease, I want to know where it came from, prognosis, diagnosis and case studies. As much as I have faith and trust in the professionals, I also become my own doctor. In the office, in my IPAD, on my phone, I have read numerous articles and exhausted websites about Acute Renal Failure in Dogs. When I think I have read every forum and paper of about veterinary medicine, I will move on to Acute Renal failure in Humans. Anything that would make feel comfortable in battling this disease. If I intend to fight I'll be obsessive compulsive in pre-battle preparations.
From what I've read I've learned about CREA and UREA Blood levels. I've come to learn how to interpret numbers and results. I've borrowed a nutritionist mindset. I've read success stories and have welcomed unfortunate documentations as well. I've taken notes of the possible causes and remedies. I've engaged in conversations and debates with Bruce's veterinarians and a veterinarian student which prompted him to tell me: "Why don't you go ahead and study veterinary medicine?" And just like anyone suffering from a medical ailment and resulted to Google, I became this "patient" from hell.
Probably I was just obsessed in gathering information because I just want to be more comfortable with whatever I'm dealing with. I want to learn from other people's experiences and I want to understand what the disease is all about. This challenge was given to me, well accepted, then I'll fight and learn from it. I felt I cannot just leave it up to professionals and faith. I knew that leading this battle required courage and planning and you can't have those when you don't have information.
As my doctor friend would used to say, information is such a rich spear only if you know how to use it. True. Google is a layman's gift to everything complicated! But if we continue to sponge in all the information on the net without much validation, we'd go depressed, crazy and paranoid. Information is only valuable when it is validated by the people who's in the know. As much as you can gobble up research papers, we should be intelligent enough to sift information, make our own analysis and validate it with professionals. Information is a deadly weapon for people who don't know how to use it.
Going crazy with Google is good at some point. Thank God for Google for teaching me things! But I respect the power of information and I choose to wield it wisely.
TIPS: Type in ACUTE RENAL FAILURE IN DOGS and you will be led to a plethora of notable websites to help you and your dog cope with this disease.
I went through denial, depression and what not. Of course I immediately brought him to veterinarian care. I resulted to prayers and as much as I admit it, GOOGLE. Yes, I'm one of those who gets irritated and crazy being thrown into some crisis without suitable information. I'm the type who will exhaust every data I can to learn everything there is know about a certain topic. With this disease, I want to know where it came from, prognosis, diagnosis and case studies. As much as I have faith and trust in the professionals, I also become my own doctor. In the office, in my IPAD, on my phone, I have read numerous articles and exhausted websites about Acute Renal Failure in Dogs. When I think I have read every forum and paper of about veterinary medicine, I will move on to Acute Renal failure in Humans. Anything that would make feel comfortable in battling this disease. If I intend to fight I'll be obsessive compulsive in pre-battle preparations.
From what I've read I've learned about CREA and UREA Blood levels. I've come to learn how to interpret numbers and results. I've borrowed a nutritionist mindset. I've read success stories and have welcomed unfortunate documentations as well. I've taken notes of the possible causes and remedies. I've engaged in conversations and debates with Bruce's veterinarians and a veterinarian student which prompted him to tell me: "Why don't you go ahead and study veterinary medicine?" And just like anyone suffering from a medical ailment and resulted to Google, I became this "patient" from hell.
Probably I was just obsessed in gathering information because I just want to be more comfortable with whatever I'm dealing with. I want to learn from other people's experiences and I want to understand what the disease is all about. This challenge was given to me, well accepted, then I'll fight and learn from it. I felt I cannot just leave it up to professionals and faith. I knew that leading this battle required courage and planning and you can't have those when you don't have information.
As my doctor friend would used to say, information is such a rich spear only if you know how to use it. True. Google is a layman's gift to everything complicated! But if we continue to sponge in all the information on the net without much validation, we'd go depressed, crazy and paranoid. Information is only valuable when it is validated by the people who's in the know. As much as you can gobble up research papers, we should be intelligent enough to sift information, make our own analysis and validate it with professionals. Information is a deadly weapon for people who don't know how to use it.
Going crazy with Google is good at some point. Thank God for Google for teaching me things! But I respect the power of information and I choose to wield it wisely.
TIPS: Type in ACUTE RENAL FAILURE IN DOGS and you will be led to a plethora of notable websites to help you and your dog cope with this disease.
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