Back to the unknown....

Well after almost of month of a somewhat "normal" Bailey, she still would only drink out of the bathtub and got sick of food in a week. But she was happy, eating, drinking, etc and we were happy with her progress. But on Monday this week Bailey has gone back to where she was before and this time it seems a bit worse than the first. I think I might have found a connection, since Bailey had been sick in December we started her on a new dog food that my parents dog Kooshy had. This was because Bailey was not eating at home I would take her to the vet near my parents home and then bring her over and tell them the updates. While not eating all day with us she would go to Kooshy's food right away and eat it quick as she could. So she had been eating that food ever since, but over the weekend we had run out and Bailey was doing well, but picky so we got a new Iams food. Bailey had been eating Iams before all this happened so we figured she would like it and eat it. She did like it and she had it for a couple of days then she started throwing up again, then the shakes came back, then she completely stopped eating and drinking again. So the first thing I looked up was Iams dog food, well I found a couple of connections. Iams dog food has been linked to chemical reactions causing renal disease, seizures, etc so we stopped the food, she wasn't eating it anyway and I emailed her doctor. Although the doctor didn't rule out that this could be the problem she didn't believe this would cause the large kidneys that Bailey has, but I am sticking to it for now. But in the days following Bailey has been getting a lot worse than she had been before. She is very lethargic, and throwing up 15 if not more times a day as well as losing more hair. Our bedroom looks absolutely horrible as this stuff stains like crazy. :( She wakes up and throws up through out the night then it continues through out the day, I feel so bad for her and feel there just isn't anything we can do. We had a bag and a half of fluid left for her so I gave her half last night hoping it might help, not sure if it did or not. But I will give her the whole bag today and see if it changes her mood or not. So now we are back to being lost in the Bailey puzzle, the doctor still wants to look for cancer with a biopsy. That biopsy costs $1500 and there could be a chance for the results to come back negative like many of the other tests we have taken have been. To the doctors it's the only option left, they have no answer for us. That's where I feel we have spent over $3000 on tests that have given us no answer, so now they have to pay for the next test. I am thinking it might be a good idea to take Bailey in for a day in the hospital on IV fluids to see if it will help but that will be $700. It's such a lost feeling to have the complete unknown is so hard to make decisions on things when we have so little money to begin with and we have twins on the way we are trying save for. So I have again e-mailed Bailey's doctor I hope to get a response back on some ideas or what she thinks might be best for our situation. I will try my best to keep this updated as this mess continues.