Friday, November 21, 2014

Tux, one year later

Had to do another blood draw yesterday for the latest Valley Fever titer. This will give us a baseline for a change in medication. 

Dr. Cartwright and the clinic staff were amazed at how good Tux looks (weight 61 lbs!), and admit they had little hope she would even be alive now much less thriving. She conferred with Dr. Shubitz at Valley Fever Center for Excellence and came up with a new treatment plan. Based on titer results, the plan is to go back to Fluconazole with the addition of a small amount of the tablet form of Lamisil which somehow improves the uptake of Fluconazole. Unless this is a fungal strain that is resistant to Fluconazole, the Itraconazole may have knocked it down enough that Fluconazole will prove effective this time around. The blood test takes about a week so Tux gets to enjoy a little more time free of these nasty anti-fungals.

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