We saw Dr. Norris on Monday for a recheck. (Jaynie's original story is here and follow-up is here.)
The good news is that her weight is up to 60.5lbs, and her spleen, which had been very enlarged, is back to normal.
Her blood pressure is still a bit high (systolic is 173 and shouldn't be higher than 150) so he is increasing the benazepril dosage a bit.
Her blood values were good on the whole, however, Creatinine is up from a month ago to 211 (was 196 and top end of normal is 141). This is a big disappointment, as is her urine specific gravity, which is 1.017 - slightly better than last time, but well below minimum normal of 1.025.
Platelets were a bit low but the report indicated there was clumping, so he's not concerned about this.
He is having the tick titers run again at North Carolina State University - those will come back in about 10 days. He is interested to see what the Babesia in particular looks like, as she was a low positive on the test run in October.
Ignoring the tests, outwardly, she is a happy, lively dog - hard to believe how critically ill she was less than 2 months ago. She does zoomies (inside and out) eats with gusto, and kills stuffies with great energy and enthusiasm. A bit of a goat though - left to herself she'd eat the bits she pulls off.
So we will continue with a restricted diet (supplemented with her buttery one egg omelets) and the benazepril, and hope for better creatinine, BP and SG values at our next recheck in February.