Today's visit wasn't great at all. Max had dogs either side of him, so he was so stressed and I had to virtually climb into the cage and stick my head under his blue blankie and then I got a purr. I also couldn't stay long as had to come home to see to Swampy and try to put a drop in his blood filled eye.
Max looks like he is coming home on saturday. The vet said today (for the first time) that fluids for so long can impair the efficiency of kidney function, but being on them this long will bring down his creatinine, which if it is too high, is just going to be hopeless. So it's a tough call. He thinks one more day though is a good idea. I could see that he doesn't think either situation (coming home sooner or on IV longer) will make a big difference in the end, but lower nos won the day. I just hope it's the right call.
Max will have in house tests on saturday and then ones sent to the lab on monday or tuesday next week if he is all right until then. When I said he looked so well, he said sometimes cats just do, ones that don't have 'normal' gradual CRF. Plus there could be something wrong either with his kidneys or one of them, or with his heart (which would affect kidney function) which without scanning all of him (no way) we don't know about. It just does show how vet medicine and what is possible lags behind human medicine, although the care and attention Max gets is way above anything one of us would get from doctors isn't it.
I hope no dogs tomorrow and that Swampy is fine and I can have a restful, quiet visit with Max.