Hello again. Things are still going well. Mackie is very playful and very happy, blood sugars are good, still eating well.
What I am puzzled by a little is the frequency of his pooping. He used...
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Hello again. Things are still going well. Mackie is very playful and very happy, blood sugars are good, still eating well.
What I am puzzled by a little is the frequency of his pooping. He used...
So far, so good. We're still trying to hone in on an insulin dose, but he's feeling good, eating well, hair is growing back on his tail.
$110 in Kansas.
He's driving my mom - who watches him during the days - nuts again, just like old times. He wants to run and play outside.
Maybe, just maybe, we're on the right track.
Really big step in the right direction today - a lot of his old enthusiasm is back. He takes a liquid vitamin supplement and I gave him his first post-incident dose last night, and that really seemed...
It's been quite the week. The bunnies and the tummy - plus the skipped shot and skipped Vetoryl - have really thrown him off. He's still subdued, a little less so than yesterday, but still not...
Things are good. He's bouncing back nicely.
It's a LONG story, but he's one of the family, albeit one who's familiar with hospitals. He loves his vet and the techs.
He's also pretty sharp, with the...
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He's a very frenetic, verbal little dog when he's well so it's pretty easy to tell when he's not. Very expression-filled...
Well, I look like an idiot at the moment: He's been yapping at all his bunkmates, ate a bowl of food for the vet and when she put him on the floor, he made a mad dash for the exit - after moving...
Got just short of a cup down him, half on his own, half hand-fed. Still dragging around, though, and his poo is dark, stringy and way too watery. He's going to spend the day at the vet's for a...
He's perking up a little bit, showing a little interest in food but the vet said to skip the shot and take it easy on the food until in the morning.
Major step backwards today. He found a nest of baby rabbits - and ate them. He's thrown up a couple of times, once aided and abetted by the vet after x-rays, and clearly feels rotten. Can't feed him...
Linda, my minature schnauzer Mackie and I are coming to the end of our first month on Vetoryl and I've been very pleased with the results. The side effects sheet is scary, and I gave some thought to...
That's what his vet said - keep an eye on the BGs and on how he's behaving.
Baseline Cortisol - 29 (15-110)
Cortisol 1 hr post ACTH - 215 (220-550)
Cortisol 2 hr post ACTH - 159 (220-550)
We're good for another 90 days.
I'm not ready to claim victory yet, since the stim test results are due in today.
But over the last three days:
BGs have been consistently in the low 100s.
He's slept for three consecutive...
Go figure.
I woke up at 4 this morning, after not getting up with Mackie all night, and it scared me to death.
I ran over to his box, and there he was on his side, sound asleep and snoring. I...
Made it halfway through the day without any repeat incidents.
This is an interesting deal, because there's no pattern to anything. I was SURE he'd be up all night drinking and running outside last...
Add to this a little vexing.
Mackie's vet wanted him back on the Vetoryl today, saying that the vomiting we're seeing - undigested food - is actually regurgitation from an overfeeding, or him...
Yeah, his stools usually are pretty firm.
Now, a week ago, he vomited in the middle of the day. And the last round of vomiting today was about 530 this morning.
But, since we've skipped the...
The stools thing is interesting. They are soft, not terribly loose - but when he vomits, it always comes after an attempt to poop.
We're just back from a ride when he barked his head off at his...
An update: We've gone off the Vetoryl temporarily due to two vomiting episodes in the last five hours, three in the last 30 hours. The on-call vet - not his regular vet - thought that 30 mg for a 16...
I've noticed one immediate trend with the 30mg he's on with his morning food at 6 a.m. - from 10 a.m. to about 10 p.m. each day, his water consumption drops off dramatically.
Then, the nights...
I think you're right. There's a spring back in his step, and curiously - after a big belt of water right after his Vetoryl - his water consumption has dropped.
As soon as I say I'm discouraged, he bounces back with a really bright night. He's on his game tonight. Still drinking, but running around the yard doing what he does best - barking.