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and thanks Mark. I'm giving him one meal of RC renal a day now and the rest a/d. I spoke to the vet and he emailed me Swampy's blood results.
Only good news is that the Baytril has helped his infection so he's on it for a few more days. His albumin and protein are up, which is no doubt from the diet as he gets a/d, i/d and RC blended renal. However the other news isn't so good. His creatinine is up to 376, urea 26 and there's a big jump in his ALT to 74. (less fluids maybe doesn't help). He is a bit more anaemic as his PCV is now down to 20. However his potassium has dropped too, to 3.3 and my vet says that that explains the weakness as he is not in end stage CRF yet but the constantly dropping PCV and potassium are potentially a huge problem. Swampy has been on kaminox throughout, about a dropper (just under 1ml) a day, so all I can do is increase it to 2mls a day and hope that it helps.
The laurabolin has made him feel better, but it doesn't last long, not as long as the 18 days which is the minimum you can have before you can give it again. He's had 2 little plates of i/d by himself so far today as well as some a/d by syringe and has been purry and enjoying the sun on the roof. He had his brolly as it was pretty warm, a lovely day. I am so grateful that he is having some good weather.
I'm supposed to get him to walk up and down the passage to keep his leg muscles going, but he doesn't want to and puts on the brakes and sits down. Everything is tiring and being blind, he likes just living where everything is familiar.
He's happy today which is lovely. I am very stressed though as OH has a week next week that he only has occasionally, where he just can't get off work should anything bad happen. Please just hope with me that Swampy will respond to the kaminox and laurabolin and keep puddling along in his lovely little old man way.
