Alice got her third blood test last Friday and we got the results via voicemail on Saturday. To get the impact of this you have to understand that our vet has sort of a morose aspect at the best of times. Think Eeyore and you won’t be too far off. So imagine our delight when his voicemail used the words “phenomenal” and “amazing”. Our little girl is doing well. Here’s the new numbers against the last two checks:
| Test | 1st test 2/27 |
2nd test 3/3 |
3rd test 3/16 | “normal” range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUN | > 180 | 80 | 48 | 10-30 |
| Creatinine | 14.8 | 5.3 | 3.2 | 0.3-2.1 |
| Phosphorus | > 20 | 10.5 | 3.9 | 3.4-8.5 |
| Potassium | 3.0 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 3.7-5.8 |
We haven’t talked to him yet, so we don’t know exactly what this means for her continued health, but it sure looks like a good trend. Based on the exam on Friday we’ve switched her fluid schedule from 100ml daily to 150ml every other day and are monitoring her response to that to see how she does. We’re at the end of the third day of that cycle so it’s a little soon to say. In any event, she’s playful and eating and drinking well. We couldn’t be more pleased.
Part of me just CANNOT believe that I am asking a question that will elicit more pet stories as a response, but how was Alice with visiting the vet for this latest blood test? Was she totally traumatized by the car ride and the vet’s office?
Actually, she was relatively mellow. She cried on the way there, but in the exam room she was very tolerant of the doc’s manipulations. On the way home she yelled maybe three times.
Maybe she got used to it with her week in the hospital?
I hope Alice get’s better. Chronic Renal Insufficiency is a tough health problem so if she’s doing well, that’s fantastic!
Happy to see Alice is doing well. Worried that she may have been one of the pets involved in the tainted food story that is circulating right now. However, Theo was not ill, and I assume you feed them both the same food, so could not have been the food she ate.
Here’s hoping that all ends well.