Results

Well we got the newest results for Bailey today, and unfortunately it wasn't much news. She had her urine culture done to check for leptospirosis, a rare disease the many dogs get immunization for. It's rare but some dogs can still sometime catch it if they lick an area outside that has been peed on by a fox, squirrel or raccoon. But that result came back negative, so we also did a blood test for other bacterial infections such as e-coli and other rare but possible infections. But that result also came back negative leaving us at the place we were in before...the unknown. So we were given three options the Dr. would like to do a biopsy of Bailey's kidneys to give her a answer to if this is lymphoma cancer or not but it is expensive. Also because Bailey is having kidney issues a biopsy could be very harmful to her, she has to go under and could lose a lot of blood. She is already pretty week since she hasn't been eating and drinking much so that idea didn't sound wonderful to us. Second option is to do another aspirate but the Dr would extract from her liver this time instead of her kidneys. Again to see if they find the same abnormal cells they saw in the kidneys and try and confirm a cancer diagnoses. Thirdly we could treat lymphoma cancer without a full diagnosis of lymphoma cancer. But to us we feel there isn't anything else they could find, we have looked for everything and Dr's are just trying to find cancer. So it seems to them that cancer is the only option for Bailey being so sick. So now Mike and I decide what we want to do, the Dr can't really tell us what to do because she is at a loss as well. So will chat and decide on what we think is the best option for us and Bailey, we really just want her to get better and hope we can get her better sooner than later.