PDA

We just got home from the cardiologist. He performed an ultrasound, and he confirmed our worst fear...

Fiona has a PDA.

Fiona will need surgery. However, he estimated that her prognosis would be 98% with surgery!! Evidently, after the surgery, she'll be as good as new.

So, we will proceed and get her heart surgery. Probably not this week because of their availability, but definitely within the next month.

This is a hereitable trait, and is congenital. I have all the paperwork from him. I'll scan as soon as I make it into my office to post here.

That means, the breeder is breeding dogs with potential for creating more puppies with PDA's. It also means that this puppy had this problem at the time she was born.

Now that I know her diagnosis for 100%, I'll be pursuing EVERY available avenue to make sure that this breeder doesn't put anyone else through this kind of avoidable heartbreak.

But for now, I'm sooooo happy that Fiona will be ok with surgery!!