well the holter results were GREAT - he had 93 VPC's during that 24 hour period, which is a significant drop from the prior holters - they were on a downward trend, but this was the lowest yet!! he started at 5000 in february, dropped to about 1000, then near 500... so under 100 is great!!! of course, no definite claims for stem cells since he's also on medication, but im going to sit here and think it was both of them :)
bad news came when rah fractured a tooth at the very end of may - and about 2 weeks ago, it started to abscess. i'd been watching it and agonizing over it for the weeks in between, but once i saw pus it was time to do something. i scrambled all over the place, trying to locate a facility that had both a boarded dentist as well as a cardiologist on staff and rah ended up at upenn having his tooth pulled - and he's done marvelously! they were great with him there, very open to my input (thankfully since im such an anal retentive owner, but come on my dog is a scientific marvel!) and he handled anesthesia just fine, no bleeding (since he's vWD affected too)...
so here we are, recovering - he's allowed to start retrieving tomorrow again post-sx and he wants his life back to normal - he says where are the toys?!?!?!?!?
That's so great!!
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