The number that was quoted to me was incorrect. The nurse had read the wrong BUN number. Since the right BUN number was almost unchanged from the first day, that basically says we need to consider our options.
We talked, and the conversation was basically a "You don't have too many things you can try at this point" speech. In other words we are pretty much on our own.
This morning I went to grab the food and feed Lettie. A syringe took me about 25 minutes. The second took 15 minutes. That was for about a small paper cup worth of food or 2 1/2 ounces. She should be getting 12 ounces of food a day minimum. Doubled, I'm giving her 5/12 of her daily diet.
It was a battle all the way. Squirt in about a teaspoon. She would grumble and almost immediately spit it out. Keep squirting in teaspoons and sometimes she'd chew and swallow, but only about 1 in 10.
This is a dog who has given up. That is the nature of Chronic Renal Failure in dogs. You can want them to last forever, but the reality is that they won't.
So things don't look good. I have to bring her back to the vet today. I'm really thinking that the best course of action is to schedule her end and stop treatments.
If things change, of course, I'll let you know.
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