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So we took Neil in one week after his acute renal failure crisis. Kidney numbers are back to being high, he's still anemic, and still dehydrated. The vet suspects there's something going on with his bone marrow, maybe the lymphoma? Over the weekend he did okay initially, but slowly decreased his eating and started vomiting again on Sunday. We've decided to treat his symptoms and not do additional testing since it would be more for our knowledge rather than pursuing more intensive treatments. The chemo and doing a biopsy would be so stressful for him and in his condition and a three hour car ride for the specialist/chemo, I just can't see it leading to a good quality of life. Hopefully we're making the right decision, I second guess myself sometimes, but then I just think about his shaking and crying at the vet and I can't imagine doing that to him for 3 hours + the hours in the vet office.
So we've been taught to do subcutaneous fluids and B12 injections at home. We'll regroup with the Vet in 10 days to see if this worked. Will be taking a deep dive into the forums for advice. He also has a Grade III hear murmur so we apparently need to be careful not to put him into congestive heart failure with too much fluids. Any threads I should read/websites good for helping with subQ fluids?
So we've been taught to do subcutaneous fluids and B12 injections at home. We'll regroup with the Vet in 10 days to see if this worked. Will be taking a deep dive into the forums for advice. He also has a Grade III hear murmur so we apparently need to be careful not to put him into congestive heart failure with too much fluids. Any threads I should read/websites good for helping with subQ fluids?