Choices

I ended up spending the whole day on the couch. Shortly after posting this morning the phone did ring and I went to the vets to get her results. It's not looking good - the enzyme that was at 8K Thursday was at 12K today - that is a fast deterioration in 2 days. Dr Brar and I discussed my choices -

• Go to a Specialist - with her enzyme counts a specialist may not even try with her and if they did it would be lots of tests - possibly have a feeding tube put down her throat.
• Dr Brar could do an ultrasound and/or a biopsy of the liver - although he said that is a surgical procedure and he doesn't think she would survive the anesthesia.
• We could do fluids today, tomorrow, and Monday and then on Monday run her labs again to see if there has been any improvement.
• We could just say good bye today.

After discussing it with Dr Brar I decided to go with the third choice. Dr Brar says he has seen a few cases where the dog turns around and makes a recovery - they are rare but it has happened. My thoughts were - why shouldn't I give Muppet that same chance. So we are going to give her meds - fluids - food and the rest is up to Muppet and God.

De