{"id":40653,"date":"2019-01-08T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40653"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:30:37","slug":"good-news-for-ava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/08\/good-news-for-ava\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news for Ava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This picture is almost seven years old. Ava&#8217;s a whole lot whiter around the muzzle now. But she&#8217;s been so puppylike lately, and today&#8217;s news was so hopeful, I thought it worked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ava_052012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ava_052012-651x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ava_052012-651x800.jpg 651w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ava_052012-366x450.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ava_052012-768x944.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ava_052012.jpg 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furrydoc got the kidney-function test results back ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned already that while the initial blood panel indicated 20-35% function remaining, a urine test (with no protein leaking into Ava&#8217;s pee, nearly normal specific gravity, and no sign of chronic infection) looked more hopeful. And so it was.<\/p>\n<p>This more sophisticated and specific test says Ava&#8217;s still got maybe 70-75% kidney function, putting her in <a href=\"https:\/\/dogshealthproblems.com\/kidney-failure-stages-in-dogs\/\" target=\"_blanK\">stage one of four-stage CKD<\/a> (Chronic Kidney Disease).<\/p>\n<p>Why such a discrepancy in the results? I was so glad of today&#8217;s news, I didn&#8217;t even ask. I will later.<\/p>\n<p>So for now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ava can remain on a good quality senior food, rather than a pricey prescription diet.\n<li>No more salty snacks for her (bacon, ham, cheese, and sharing my snack crackers are all out).\n<li>No aspirin or any other drugs that might affect kidney function (but she wasn&#8217;t on any, anyhow).\n<li>Never restrict her access to water, even if she starts peeing in the house or needing to go out at night (which I wouldn&#8217;t do, anyhow).\n<li>We&#8217;ll monitor her blood, urine, and blood pressure in three months, and depending on the results, we&#8217;ll either continue three-month monitoring or go to six months. She may, but also may not, have to go on blood-pressure meds after the three-month check.\n<\/ul>\n<p>She <em>will<\/em> die of kidney failure if something else doesn&#8217;t kill her first. But with luck, monitoring, and care we may have a good long time ahead of us.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, did that news brighten a rainy, cold, gray, and otherwise thoroughly miserable afternoon. Thanks for the prayers, good vibes, and good cheer you sent her way (and thanks again, RW, for financing this much more hopeful test).<\/p>\n<p>I think this calls for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MTQLUst4aaM\" target=\"_blank\">a song<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MTQLUst4aaM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture is almost seven years old. Ava&#8217;s a whole lot whiter around the muzzle now. But she&#8217;s been so puppylike lately, and today&#8217;s news was so hopeful, I thought it worked. Furrydoc got the kidney-function test results back ahead of schedule. I mentioned already that while the initial blood panel indicated 20-35% function remaining, a urine test (with no protein leaking into Ava&#8217;s pee, nearly normal specific gravity, and no sign of chronic infection) looked more hopeful. And so it was. This more sophisticated and specific test says Ava&#8217;s still got maybe 70-75% kidney function, putting her in stage&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/08\/good-news-for-ava\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good news for Ava<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40653"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40662,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653\/revisions\/40662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}