Bailey's Healthy Liver :o)

Praise God!!! Something's going our way! I just spoke with the vet who had bloodwork results from Bailey's vet visit last Monday. His alanine aminotransferase level, which was high last month for the first time ever, dropped from 327 to 40! That's the one that really had us worried about his liver function. Also, his alkaline phosphatase was down from 738 to 156!!! This one has been high for almost TWO YEARS, as high as almost 1,000 and hovering around 400 lately. And now it's 156! This is such wonderful news and shows that his liver is much happier now than it was a month ago.

She is also sending off blood for tests for several things that could be causing his DM symptoms instead of DM. She included a thyroid panel in his blood panel and that was normal, so it's not his thyroid. He was tested for tick borne diseases (ehrlichia, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and lyme). Those tests were all negative. The two we're waiting on now are toxoplasmosis and anaplasma. She may also want to test for neospora if those two are both negative. All three of these would be more likely to respond to treatment than DM is, from what I've read anyway. So it would be nice to find out he has something that could be cured with medicine, but we'll have to wait and see. I may get the results Thursday, or it may be next week sometime.

Also, the area for the pool is supposed to get leveled sometime this week - and not by me! So hopefully Mr. Bailey will be swimming again by this weekend...