I dropped Penny off this morning at 8:30 am. Not bad for a night owl. I received a call from Dr. Walker, who told me that Penny looked pretty good, but asked how she was doing. I told Dr. Walker about Penny cherry picking her food, her peeing in her bed, and looking like she was a little under the weather. Dr. Walker wanted to do bloodwork.
So, while I was working my core muscles for my little back injury at PT, Dr. Walker was trying to get in touch with me. She called my house, my cell phone, and even my husband! When I finally came back to work, I had three messages on my cell phone. I called her back and she was on the phone. When I finally got in touch with her, she had results from the bloodwork.
One of Penny's pancreas chemistry values is elevated. Normal range for Lipase is about
200 - 700 U/L and Penny's is about 4 times that amount. This means she could have pancreatitis or inflammatory bowel disease.
If she has pancreatitis, she should not be anesthetized. If she has inflammatory bowel disease, one of the treatments is a low dose steroid, which affects the autoimmune system and should not be taken with antibiotics, which she needs because she currently has an infection. So, surgery would need to happen fairly quickly so that she could get rid of the infection, quit the antibiotics, and get started on treatment.
Next step: ultra sound to see if it is pancreatitis.
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2 comments:
I'm sorry about this latest setback. Penny is lucky to have you as her human. You will take better care of her than anyone else who was interested in adopting her ever would have done.
T
It's just more $$$. I am thinking about having another bake sale!
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