It's confirmed. Tux has Valley Fever. A serious case. Her titer was 256, that's usually as high as the test is run. I don't know yet what medication she'll get. It will be ready to pick up tomorrow and we have to expect even more lack of appetite and refusal to eat with this stuff... after I finally got her eating again this past week. An egg, hamburger, veggie and rice scramble with a bit of soup base has been doing the trick. I now have three different diets to dispense for the dogs and am doing more food prep for them than for us! Anyway, I hope there will be no complications from the meds, but we are in for a very long haul with this disease as the vet won't even do another blood titer to check for improvement for six months. Keep your fingers crossed that the meds aren't outrageously expensive as I've already got the questionable $70 a month probiotic for Hooper in addition to her expensive prepared kidney diet.
The desert with it's rattlesnakes, deadly heat, cactus spines, poisonous everything and deadly fungus turns out to be a far more dangerous place to live than the wilds of Alaska.
