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<font size="2">Well we had a horrible day today and I'm just now
recovering. <br>
First Kelvin decided he didn't want to eat breakfast.... again. I
had to get hubby to the airport so he could fly out for an
interview tomorrow. Before we left we found blood all over the
deck. Little drops, like someone had snapped a nail. Checked
everyone, Kelvin was leaking nearly black blood from his penile
shaft. I cleaned him up, drove like a crazy person to get hubby on
his plane and back to get Kelvin to the vet. An hour and a half
after we got to the vet, 5 different tests, an x-ray and $300
later he's going further down hill, his kidney values are still
slowly rising meaning the CRF is advancing faster, and vet can't
pinpoint what he did to cause all the blood this morning but she's
going to treat him for a urinary tract infection, just in case.
The blood was blessedly absent by the time I got back from the
airport to take him to the vet.<br>
She did the x-ray because we both felt a really hard mass in his
abdomen, nothing there, didn't even see any arthritis in the
portion of legs and back in the view. Blood tests, except kidney
functions, are totally normal. No sign of cancer. His urinalysis
showed his CRF worse as we expected with just a touch of bacteria
and a very minute amount of blood. Otherwise NOTHING.<br>
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But we are changing his course of treatment for the CRF, he is now
on sub-q fluids twice a week to help keep him flushed.<br>
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Took an hour to clean up all the blood, and there was a ton of it,
everywhere in the laundry room, the deck looked like a war
zone.....<br>
Send kidney and old geezer drool for him and send hubby job
landing drool! He needs work!!! He was laid off end of January.<br>
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Carmen and the Bassets of Mayhem<br>
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