Day 38: Hypertension

                Today there were a few Tech appointments, as well as a spay, a couple of neuters, and a dental; but really nothing besides that.  Another interesting case that we had today, though, was a Bassett Hound named TK.  He was coughing a lot and having trouble breathing, so his owner brought him in to get looked at.  However, Dr. Todd did many tests on him and couldn’t figure out what was wrong; his blood work, X-rays, ultrasounds, etc. all looked fine.  Finally, after a while of preforming multiple tests and finding nothing wrong, Dr. Todd took his blood pressure; discovering that TK had hypertension (high blood pressure, usually caused by some sort of stress).   Unfortunately, sometimes certain problems can be hard to detect, such as in this case.