No Sleep

Thursday and Friday nights were not fun. Abby awakened us three times on Thursday night and four times on Friday night. We would take her out and she would "do some business", but not hurriedly and not as if her stomach was upset. On Saturday morning, I had to decide if she should see the vet or if it "could wait" until Monday. I also had to be at a workshop from 9am to 6pm and it was already 8:15am. I had called her oncologist on Friday and told him the story (got into trash, still not eating well, temperature was normalish at 101.6, etc.) and his advice was to have our regular vet see her to determine if she had an intestinal blockage - which could be quite serious and might require surgery. I decided to take her temperature. It was 101.7 - still normalish, but she whimpered as I was taking her temperature and that sealed the deal - she needed to go to the vet. So Mike canceled his morning meeting and took her to the vet by himself - for the first time. We were both nervous, to say the least.

Long story short, the vet took blood and some urine and during the exam decided that he did not think that she had an intestinal blockage - he was thinking pancreatitis or a kidney infection. He settled on a kidney infection due to high white blood cell count and no vomiting (which might have inclined him toward pancreatitis). After an injection of antibiotic and a prescription, they returned home. More importantly, last night, Abby slept through the night - YEAH!! She's still not eating all that well, but one thing at a time. Dr. Clemens did say that a kidney infection could affect her appetite, but I think that we'll make a follow-up appointment to talk about the appetite thing in a week or so.

Okay. Time to walk the dogs one more time tonight and then sleep...