Just back from the vets, and I’m afraid it’s not great news…

Harry has severe, advanced heart disease. Because it’s currently being complicated by his respiratory infection, they can’t yet say if he’s in heart failure, but the x-ray showed his heart is 50% bigger than it should be, and the scan showed his heart muscle walls are measuring 8.5mm in places (under 6mm is normal, over 8mm is serious).

I have to monitor his breathing over the next few days, dose him with the diuretics they’ve given me and some tablets that will help regulate the blood flow in his heart. He has a follow up appointment next week, when, if the fluid has reduced enough, they’ll start him on beta-blockers. Assuming we get through all this, they’ll repeat heart scans every three months. Worse case scenario is we might not even still have him in three months…

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