Pam Flachs
Savannah Super Cat
Great news, Linda! 
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fibrosis of the liver
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Rafiki
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Rafiki finished her 6 week series of B-12 injections last week so yesterday we went back to the internal medicine vet for a follow-up. He did the blood work for this as well as the liver values so that I would not have to go back to my regular vet this week. We will get those results back next week.
The last time that we did a liver work up was a month ago. She is basically holding her own with most liver values moderately elevated. No major improvement but values are at least stable. Her RBC remains low (5.4 versus a normal of 6.5 - 12.2). Her BUN is at 15 (last time it was 16 and the range is 16-36). Her ATL remains elevated (341 now down from 393 last month against a normal range of 12-130). Her bilirubin rose from 1.2 to 1.9 (range is 0-.9). GGT remained the same (29 against a range of 0-4).
We will be keeping her on the Atopica (Cyclosporine) but this time we are trying a liquid as the pill is freaking huge and requires 3 attempts on average to get it down her throat. Last night was the first attempt and it went OK. We shall see about how it goes tonight. We are adding 2.5 mg of prednisone in hopes of dropping the liver values back into the normal range. She will also continue to have the Denamarin in the morning as well.
The one bit of good news was that her weight was up to 13.49. Last week it was only 12.94 and I was concerned because she had been losing 2-3 oz a week. I credit primarily freeze dried duck hearts and nutri-cal for the weight gain was she is being extremely fussy as of late. On the other hand, she is extremely playful. This morning she was an absolute pest!
Access Emergency hospital has declared her their favorite savannah! Both the vet and his technician were gushing over how sweet she is.
The last time that we did a liver work up was a month ago. She is basically holding her own with most liver values moderately elevated. No major improvement but values are at least stable. Her RBC remains low (5.4 versus a normal of 6.5 - 12.2). Her BUN is at 15 (last time it was 16 and the range is 16-36). Her ATL remains elevated (341 now down from 393 last month against a normal range of 12-130). Her bilirubin rose from 1.2 to 1.9 (range is 0-.9). GGT remained the same (29 against a range of 0-4).
We will be keeping her on the Atopica (Cyclosporine) but this time we are trying a liquid as the pill is freaking huge and requires 3 attempts on average to get it down her throat. Last night was the first attempt and it went OK. We shall see about how it goes tonight. We are adding 2.5 mg of prednisone in hopes of dropping the liver values back into the normal range. She will also continue to have the Denamarin in the morning as well.
The one bit of good news was that her weight was up to 13.49. Last week it was only 12.94 and I was concerned because she had been losing 2-3 oz a week. I credit primarily freeze dried duck hearts and nutri-cal for the weight gain was she is being extremely fussy as of late. On the other hand, she is extremely playful. This morning she was an absolute pest!
Access Emergency hospital has declared her their favorite savannah! Both the vet and his technician were gushing over how sweet she is.
Carykd7kau
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Good news Linda.
Pam Flachs
Savannah Super Cat
That's very good news, Linda!
Rafiki
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And I should add that I got to see my old vet Dr. Sandy there. That was really nice. She is working as a mobile vet for them and Saturday was slow so she was in house working with Dr. Bianco. I did not need her to translate vet-speak to English this time but it sure was nice having her there.
Rafiki
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This morning, Rafiki ate 3 duck hearts as an appetizer and then ate 2.8 oz of food. This evening, she had her meds followed by a couple of hairball remedy treats (yeah.....hairballs aren't exactly an issue but she likes the things) followed by a dental chew and 2 more duck hearts. I cut up the 3rd duck heart and added a piece to her food. Poor baby went nuts trying to find where the scent was coming from. She finally figured out that it was not on the table or wherever .... it was smack dab in the middle of that food dish. She started licking the food and ate quite a bit before grabbing that duck heart piece. A couple more sneak heart placements and the bowl of food was emptied. 3.2 oz down for dinner and no need for nutria-cal.
I did try rehydrating a duck heart yesterday per the instructions. Baby girl had no idea why it smelled so good but had that funky squishy texture. She refused to even try it! I gave it to Jammu who played with it for lord only knows how long. I could not find it later so he must have eaten it. So one problem that I am experiencing is that she wont touch them once soggy. Mixing pieces into her food wont work. They have to be introduced one at a time so that they are nice and crispy. Sigh.
I did try rehydrating a duck heart yesterday per the instructions. Baby girl had no idea why it smelled so good but had that funky squishy texture. She refused to even try it! I gave it to Jammu who played with it for lord only knows how long. I could not find it later so he must have eaten it. So one problem that I am experiencing is that she wont touch them once soggy. Mixing pieces into her food wont work. They have to be introduced one at a time so that they are nice and crispy. Sigh.