Purdue University Small Animal Hospital<\/a> for answers.
Koda\u2019s owner, Marianne Hoke, took her beloved companion on the several-hour drive to West Lafayette in search of clarity\u2014and found it. Purdue\u2019s specialists diagnosed Koda\u2019s condition and developed a treatment plan, working in collaboration with her local veterinarian to ensure continuity of care once Koda returned home.
What had once seemed like a string of frustrating accidents in the house now had an explanation, and with it, a way forward. Marianne recalled that initially, she followed up with the hospital every three months and after two cycles of that, during which Koda was stable, the hospital care team advised that the follow-ups would only need to be done every six months. Her local veterinarian runs Koda\u2019s kidney function tests and sends them to the Veterinary Hospital\u2019s Nephrology\/Urology service. Marianne said she usually receives a text with results the same day.
At first, Marianne interacted with the resident who had seen Koda at Purdue. After the resident concluded her residency program, the senior clinician on the case, Dr. William Whitehouse, assistant professor of small animal internal medicine, handled the communication with her. Beyond the clinical care, Marianne appreciated the personalized touches\u2014the follow-up communication, appointment reminders, and encouragement to keep sharing updates about Koda\u2019s progress. \u201cIt makes you feel like you have that team behind you if they ever are needed,\u201d Marianne said.
With Purdue\u2019s support, Koda\u2019s discomfort is now being managed, and Marianne has a deeper understanding of his condition and how to care for him. It\u2019s the kind of partnership that makes a lasting difference\u2014for pets and the people who love them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we continue a series of stories about animals and their owners who\u2019ve found help and healing at the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital as we share the tale of a dog named Koda, a young poodle mix that had experienced ongoing bladder issues early in life, and whose family was referred to the Purdue University Small Animal Hospital for answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":29724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,31,27],"tags":[2281,121,23],"class_list":["post-29723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giving","category-hospitals","category-services","tag-client-success","tag-giving","tag-hospital"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29723"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29747,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29723\/revisions\/29747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}