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cellioErik saw our regular vet on Monday for a follow-up after the surgery. (We had to wait long enough for the drugs from that to get fully out of his system so blood tests would be meaningful.)
He weighs 7 pounds (even). A year ago he was at 8.25. I expressed disappointment that he hadn't gained more by now, but the vet said he's about where she expected him to be and just keep feeding him the canned food.
She called with preliminary results of his blood tests today. His bilirubin (err, that's phonetic) is good, she said, which means his bile duct and gallbladder are fine (i.e. the surgery worked). Two liver enzymes that have sometimes been high in the past are high now (SALT and, I think, SAST?); this suggests infection or inflamation, so he's now on antibiotics and we'll check again when that's done. We've done this before (not always the same drugs); I suspect that we couldn't go far wrong by just doing a round of antibiotics every few months and not bothering to do the not-cheap blood tests. Yeah, I don't want to blithely help create Supergerm here, but we've done the "see high results, do antibiotics, measure again and see normal results, wait several months and repeat" cycle a few times now. I'll have to ask about that.
The antibiotic this time is liquid; the tech told me it's banana-flavored and asked if he likes banana. Haven't the faintest idea, I said. Apparently he does, which makes this easier. It does raise the question, though: if they're going to flavor the stuff anyway, why not just make it tuna-flavored?
He weighs 7 pounds (even). A year ago he was at 8.25. I expressed disappointment that he hadn't gained more by now, but the vet said he's about where she expected him to be and just keep feeding him the canned food.
She called with preliminary results of his blood tests today. His bilirubin (err, that's phonetic) is good, she said, which means his bile duct and gallbladder are fine (i.e. the surgery worked). Two liver enzymes that have sometimes been high in the past are high now (SALT and, I think, SAST?); this suggests infection or inflamation, so he's now on antibiotics and we'll check again when that's done. We've done this before (not always the same drugs); I suspect that we couldn't go far wrong by just doing a round of antibiotics every few months and not bothering to do the not-cheap blood tests. Yeah, I don't want to blithely help create Supergerm here, but we've done the "see high results, do antibiotics, measure again and see normal results, wait several months and repeat" cycle a few times now. I'll have to ask about that.
The antibiotic this time is liquid; the tech told me it's banana-flavored and asked if he likes banana. Haven't the faintest idea, I said. Apparently he does, which makes this easier. It does raise the question, though: if they're going to flavor the stuff anyway, why not just make it tuna-flavored?
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Date: 2006-02-02 03:22 am (UTC)That makes sense. I hadn't thought of that.
My cats don't get much people food, and so far as I know none of them have ever gotten ahold of fruit. A whole strawberry sounds like quite a mouthful! :-)
(I did feed Erik some green chutney once, but it was an attempt at a deterrent.)
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Date: 2006-02-02 07:04 am (UTC)