Just got the bad news. Results of blood work taken this week weren't good. Six months of treatment with Fluconazole and there is no improvement in her blood titer. Vet recommends switching to Itraconazole. Now we're talking at least $6 a pill - one per day - so something like $180 a month, for who-knows-how-long! Less if I can buy it through a Canadian pharmacy. I'm stunned. We've just gone through six months of treatment that did nothing but make the poor dog miserable.
Hooper
Small favors here. Her blood work was good. Kidneys holding steady. Vet recommends continuing $70 per month probiotic and expensive K/D dog food. Of course, she has gone on a food strike, refusing to eat the dry K/D so I am mixing the canned stuff with foods that are OK for renal failure, hoping to get her eating again.
Strangely, Tux is eating well for the first time in over six months. The (much less expensive) probiotics I got at the health food store may be helping her stomach. Maybe. I can't even think right now.
