Friday Jan.15

Fri Jan 15

Ginger is still in the oncology center in Greenville, on IV fluids, still very ill...
This morning's bloodwork showed a slight improvement in the calcium
level and creatinine (kidney), no improvement in BUN. She had eaten a
few spoonfuls of food late last night, none this AM. This afternoon
(530) the vet said she had eaten a whole bowl of food, was brighter,
he did an ultrasound and the swollen lymph nodes had gone down a
'fraction'. She is still wagging her tail whenever someone comes in
the room, he said she seemed more alert and 'brighter'. . Of course,
sick as she was when we got there Wed, she walked into the clinic
(well, not her normal proud strut, head up, tail up, more of a
shamble, but she was walking... greeted an elderly guy in the waiting
room (at least walked over to him and stood there waiting to be
petted), wagged her tail at each new person, licked me in the face
when I said goodbye, etc. He said some dogs with not as bad bloodwork
and cancer wont even get up and walk and have to be carried in, so its
hard to tell from 'clinical signs'. . Ginger is a very friendly and
loving dog (though very polite about it, not 'in your face' friendly
like my DB) and apparently that is still with her no matter how sick
she is.

He said basically she is improving, very slowly, she still needs to
be on the IV fluids because of her kidney failure. He said if her CA
level continues to drop the swelling should go down, and we'll be able
to tell if there is underlying kidney disease (or permanent kidney
damage).

I am going up in the AM to see her (have to get there between 8 AM
and 9 AM. They'll do bloodwork around 8AM, so I should be able to get
an update on her bloodwork and see if we're still progressing.

Thank you for all the prayers and good thoughts, I believe that is
helping my girl carry on.