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...Diva takes a bit of a turn for the worse.
She's been acting a bit off the last couple of weeks. Appetite not quite on target, a bit more lethargic than normal. Appetite enough off that I've been giving her half doses of the appetite stimulant with the long name I can never spell to get her to eat decent meals for the past week. Tried not giving it to her this morning to see how she'd eat her breakfast--FAIL. She barely touched it. Gave her the appetite pill and about an hour or so later she ate some of her breakfast and later ate all of her lunch.
Called the vet today to make sure she can't become dependent on the appetite stimulant pill--we're cool in that department, thankfully--it's not something she could grow dependent on. Vet asked me some questions and then checked when she last had her bloods done--June. Time to bring her in, just in case something's up.
Something is up. All of her kidney related numbers have gone back above normal levels from high normal, and she's lost just over a pound since August that she can't really spare. Her Creatinine is 3.7 (high normal is 2.1 and she was at 2.1 in June), her BUN is 46 (high normal is 30 and she was at 26 in June), her amylaze is 1529 (high normal is 1100 and she was at 1389 in June), and her calcium is 15.9 (high normal is 11 and she was at 14.9 in June). Nothing Earth shatteringly high, but enough to cause concern for them going higher and to take some (at least) temporary corrective action.
She's going from 150ml of sub-q fluids a day to twice a day 100 in the AM and 150 in the evening for the next ten days. She got a vitamin B12 shot and an antibiotic shot as well as a ten-day course of Amoxicillin in pill form. Also suggested trying to see if she'd eat Royal Canin renal failure formula wet food vs. the Science Diet mature formula/small amount of A/D we've been feeding her--lower protein food is better for her, even though the Scienc Diet mature formula is only 8 percent protein, which isn't bad but Rx food is lower. We tried it when we got home and she ate all of what I gave her, so we shall see if that trend continues. She'll gladly eat Science diet K/D (renal formula) kibble, but she can't eat that exclusively because I need to mix her miralax/benefiber/squash into wet food to stave off the chronic constipation.
Follow-up in ten days. Which is Christmas Eve, of course. Probably try to schedule her for the Saturday before or the 26th--will call in the AM to see which day they think is best and what they've got available appointment wise.
So that was a hit to the credit card...and not at the best time of the year for that sort of thing. :/ What to do, though? She was WAY past due for bloodwork, and it's a good thing we caught the increase early enough to (hopefully) not be too difficult to correct. Dr. D is confident we can get this under control relatively quickly with dilligent treatment. Still, I'm worried for my girl. :(
Le sigh. They keep us on our toes, our geriatric furry friends do...
She's been acting a bit off the last couple of weeks. Appetite not quite on target, a bit more lethargic than normal. Appetite enough off that I've been giving her half doses of the appetite stimulant with the long name I can never spell to get her to eat decent meals for the past week. Tried not giving it to her this morning to see how she'd eat her breakfast--FAIL. She barely touched it. Gave her the appetite pill and about an hour or so later she ate some of her breakfast and later ate all of her lunch.
Called the vet today to make sure she can't become dependent on the appetite stimulant pill--we're cool in that department, thankfully--it's not something she could grow dependent on. Vet asked me some questions and then checked when she last had her bloods done--June. Time to bring her in, just in case something's up.
Something is up. All of her kidney related numbers have gone back above normal levels from high normal, and she's lost just over a pound since August that she can't really spare. Her Creatinine is 3.7 (high normal is 2.1 and she was at 2.1 in June), her BUN is 46 (high normal is 30 and she was at 26 in June), her amylaze is 1529 (high normal is 1100 and she was at 1389 in June), and her calcium is 15.9 (high normal is 11 and she was at 14.9 in June). Nothing Earth shatteringly high, but enough to cause concern for them going higher and to take some (at least) temporary corrective action.
She's going from 150ml of sub-q fluids a day to twice a day 100 in the AM and 150 in the evening for the next ten days. She got a vitamin B12 shot and an antibiotic shot as well as a ten-day course of Amoxicillin in pill form. Also suggested trying to see if she'd eat Royal Canin renal failure formula wet food vs. the Science Diet mature formula/small amount of A/D we've been feeding her--lower protein food is better for her, even though the Scienc Diet mature formula is only 8 percent protein, which isn't bad but Rx food is lower. We tried it when we got home and she ate all of what I gave her, so we shall see if that trend continues. She'll gladly eat Science diet K/D (renal formula) kibble, but she can't eat that exclusively because I need to mix her miralax/benefiber/squash into wet food to stave off the chronic constipation.
Follow-up in ten days. Which is Christmas Eve, of course. Probably try to schedule her for the Saturday before or the 26th--will call in the AM to see which day they think is best and what they've got available appointment wise.
So that was a hit to the credit card...and not at the best time of the year for that sort of thing. :/ What to do, though? She was WAY past due for bloodwork, and it's a good thing we caught the increase early enough to (hopefully) not be too difficult to correct. Dr. D is confident we can get this under control relatively quickly with dilligent treatment. Still, I'm worried for my girl. :(
Le sigh. They keep us on our toes, our geriatric furry friends do...
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