Gosh.....just when you think things are going great it all comes crashing down. Onyx took a turn for the worse this past weekend. What triggers these episodes we just can't figure out. Back to explosive diarrhea. She ended up at NP vet for the day on Monday hooked up to IV fluids (and this was after we gave her 3 days of SubQ fluids here at home
Good news. Her newest blood panel showed all of her values in the normal range! (except for platelets and those are signs of inflammation). Her neutrophils are back up to the normal range and her panel looks amazingly "boring" and that says something about this dog! She is off the antibiotics but before that her stools started to get very
She is doing pretty darn good! She is still on antibiotics and we will take her in sometime this week for another blood panel to see where her neutrophils are. She is still on budesinode once a day and clavamox and metronitidzole twice a day. Her stools have been amazingly normal this week. She is up to 4 cans a day of food and is doing well with that
If it isn't one thing it is another. Onyx is still doing quite well although starting to have a bit more watery stool. She went for bloodwork yesterday after being back on the azathioprine for over a week. Her ALT has gone down further BUT her neutrophils are now almost non existant. This is probably the most dangerous side effect of the azathioprine
Onyx has been doing pretty darn good! She seems to be processing most of her food. Still not solid stools, but at least not liquid diarrhea. They are more like cow patties. The canned Iams Low Residue seems to be working for her. The best thing is that she isn't going outside (or spewing in the house) a dozen times a day. We are still giving her
WOW...what a different dog we have. After leaving her at the vet on Friday and having them put in a catheter and IV fluids all day she came home a renewed dog. I knew she was dehydrated and although not severely so, just having her revitalized all day made a world of difference. I always remember that from a human stand point. If I am feeling sluggish
Whew....this is hard watching this dog. I thought sure that yesterday she had given up. A couple of days ago she threw up her meals. Then just wouldn't eat. I thought that was the end.....Don was getting home Thursday night and I thought she might be waiting for him. I had a call into my vet to bring her out for bloodwork and see if there was anything
This girl is just amazing. I think most other dogs would have given up and died. She is still a bag of bones. She had 2 very bad nights with explosive diarrhea. But today has been a good day for her and she acts like nothing is wrong. Today I have just fed her hamburger. Cooked, very lean burger. She is on metronitidzol again but a lower dose. She only
I am going to try and cut and paste a long post that I emailed to a friend of mine who was having questions from an adopter of a shy dog. _____________________________________________________ Most of the time a husky introduced into a household with family dynamics especially a small child is very traumatic for that dog. He pretty much only knew a dog
ARGH. Took Onyx in today for blood work. Only 12 days on the Azathioprine and her ALT (liver enzyme) went from a normal of <10 to near 700. Caused by the azathioprine. Unfortunately she already got her dose today. So on Saturday will completely take her off this drug. She will remain on budesonide and hopefully this will help her. Her red count is