Heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) microfilaria in a fresh blood smear from a young dog recently adopted from a neglectful situation. He was also positive on his Idexx SNAP 4dx, which tests blood for an antigen from adult female heartworms. Fortunately he still looked healthy on clinical exam, so with treatment his prognosis is good.
Our clinic follows the American Heartworm Society treatment protocol:
Heartworms are much easier to prevent than treat! Options include monthly tablets/chews or topicals, or an injection that lasts 12 months. If your dog isn't currently on heartworm prevention, please contact your vet about testing and getting on a prevention plan.
why don't you let yourself be gently peeled off the ground and tossed across the back of a horse like a sack of potatoes by the most handsome man in china, then maybe you'll calm down
And I've said this before but for people who don't think an organzied first aid kit is necessary if you've got a medicine cabinet or some other mishmash of medical supplies, I can say from firsthand experience that it REALLY sucks to try digging through a random assortment of bottles and boxes looking for the one specific thing you need while you're bleeding everywhere and your vision is a bit blurry.
When Danny joined the JL, they added the list of substances and weapons he was weak to to the system, with all of Batman’s contingency plans, just like every member of the league. They worked their way through testing other things that had the possibility of affecting Phantom, just to be safe, but there’s some things that nobody thinks to prepare for.
Danny is sent to deal with a large chunk of Kryptonite that crashed on earth and plowed straight through a city. He was closest and the fastest moving hero available.
When Phantom stopped responding on the comms, the heroes noticed immediately.
Nobody expected Kryptonite to drive ghosts absolutely mad.
adam who knows the door is wide open, knows he could leave at any point, knows that lawrence wouldn’t stop him, couldn’t stop him and yet. and yet .. adam who looks at the fresh crimson stain on lawrence’s shirt collar, the red beneath his nails he hasn’t quite managed to scrub away yet and wonders if there’s any universe in which he’d run to the cops, to anyone. adam who knows there isn’t. lawrence wouldn’t stop him but adam wouldn’t run. adam who despises everything jigsaw stands for, tells lawrence as much, tells lawrence that he’s gonna be the first to dance on that bastards grave when he finally kicks it but who still stays with lawrence. despite it all. because he’s lawrence, because he’s adam’s. because they’re so inextricably intertwined that not having lawrence around now would kill him as surely as reaching inside and pulling out his own beating heart. he’s everywhere and he’s everything, living in the spaces between adam’s ribs and wrapped around his brain like a live wire. running would be suicide and besides, adam’s not gonna let him go, can’t. not now. adam who would absolve lawrence of just about anything as long as he’s by his side, as long as he keeps coming back, as long as he switches the light on when he gets home and cups adam’s face oh so gently in bloodstained hands