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I have brought him home today and took off the next several days to be with him.His prognosis is poor but I will continue to treat him with the doxy and the prednisonejust in case there is any chance of improvement. His U/S findings were:

1. hypoechoic hepatomegaly

2. normoechoic splenomegaly, no masses

3. small amount of abdominal effusion

4. bilateral renomegaly with hyperechoic renal cortices-Lt kid-8.2cm,Rt kid-8.4cm

5. small amount of bilateral pleural effusion

 

on june 13th here are his blood test results:

 

wbc-4.5 rbc-5.15 hemoglobin-11.7 hematocrit-35 platelet-203 lymphocytes-945/ul

 

on june 17th his results are:

 

-5.19 -4.31 -9.5 -26.6 -77 .75k/ul

 

 

I'm trying not to totally give up hope, and as long as he is not suffering I will continue to treat him for as long as it takes but right now it sure looks bad.

 

He is getting 200mg doxy 2x daily( the internist told me to give him 300mg once daily but I want to stick with the normal protocol,anyone think theres a reason not to?)and 20mg pred. once daily to try tohelp with anemia,low platelets and low white count according to his discharge instructions.I really hope he improves,but I'm prepared for him not to and will just spend as much time with him as I can.

 

 

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Continued prayers for your pupper.

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How is Jax feeling this morning? I hope he had a good night.

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Sending more hugs and prayers for Jax. Reading thru this all is tough because it's a lot like what happened with Chelsa; who did not have a good outcome. BUT she was worse; with more issues affecting her quality of life, she had immune-mediated polyarthritis and right at the end, threw a clot that paralyzed her front left leg. She was unable to walk. :cry1 At that point, she was letting me know that she was done fighting and I had to let her go. I am hoping so much that Jax turns a corner and beats this thing!

 

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A B complex should be OK (the body excretes what it doesn't need) but I'm not sure about vitamin K. I would run that by your vet. Was the article you were reading on erlichiosis or something else?

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I think he might be starting to respond to the doxy.I did not find out until today that they reran his bloodwork before I picked him up yasterday and his platelets are actually almost normal.I spoke to the vet about the vit.b and k. He said to vive him a multi, and B12-500mcg but no K so thatis what I am doing. I also told him I can give sub Q fluids so he has me giving him 300mg once a day.He did not want to eat this morning so gave up my filet mignon to him and that sure did the trick! He seems more alert this afternoon.He greeted me at the door with his tail wagging,was looking to go in the car when I went to leave and no longer looks like he is in a coma.Last night I was trying to wake him up to get him to go to bed and he was just limp when I tried to lift him up. I thought he might be dead by morning.I'm finally starting to feel more hopeful that he will get past this.thanks everybody!

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Oh that's a good report. :clap Hang in there Jax!

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Good news! :) I hope he continues to improve. Keep feeding him filet mignon if that's what he wants. ;) Did you hear back from OSU?

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Keep fighting Jax, You have a lot of people pulling for you!

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I tried to send the results to OSU but the E-mail was rejected.I don't know if I did the attachments right,I don't really do these things on the computer.I think the attachments were too big.I'll try again today and ask if I can fax them to them instead.

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