Louie update

[Halcyon]

Sending good thoughts your way.

[Snowco Labradors]

Not knowing is awful. I feel your worry. Praying all will be ok on further tests sent out and he can be treated for this. Hang in there.

[Louie's Dad]

Still just waiting on results for the tests. Louie's status is essentially the same. We had a good couple days as far as he seemed a bit more energized, but at the same time in some ways he seems weaker. I've just never seen anything like this, where a dog can be a 5 year old ball of fire and 2 weeks later, literally, just be as weak as can be.

We did just move to a new house, and so now I am paranoid about a possibility of him being poisoned in some way. But I renovated the house. Cleaned every last crevace, painted over every last inch. No signs of mold, poison, pesticides, anything. So now we wait and hope for the best. I am going to attempt to see if my in-laws would watch him for a few days to see if a change in scenery does anything for him. We just got this house, I hope there isn't anything causing him problems here!

[Sue-Ram]

I don't know anything about the condition, but I'm surprised that your vet would have sent him home in such a weak condition. It must be extremely frustrating waiting for the results and watching your dog become weaker. Hope they can get this resolved soon for you.

[Louie's Dad]

Well, I guess I will bring the few of you who've read my post up to date:

The blood tests that got shipped to Cornell all came back negative, yet Lou's condition continues to worsen. I couldn't take it anymore and I took him to the biggest vet hospital in the Rochester, NY area. I am at work right now as they are currently running some tests on him. From March (when he had emergency stomach surgery) to now, he has lost 22 lbs. (Granted, some of that was on purpose, as 91lbs was just too big when he had his surgery and I was told he needed to get his weight down)...

We are doing an abdominal xray or scan (I'm not a doctor so I don't know the exact lingo) and I also called back to ask that they check for any possible tick born diseases, as the symptoms I see online seem to match his current symptoms (other than the hyper calcium)

From there, there are more tests I hope we never get to, because I'm hoping that one of those two tests gives me an answer. This is absolutely breaking my heart as my boy is so young and is my best friend ever. Thanks for your positive thoughts and I pray that I can announce some good news soon.

[Dallas dawg]

Man, good thoughts your way.

[Tilly]

Just seeing this now, sending you best thoughts and strength that you find out what is going on, take care

[ZoeysMommy]

Sending prayers to Louie, I really hope you get answers soon.

[ZRabbits]

Hoping you get those answers needed for your beloved friend. Stay strong! Both of you are in our thoughts.

KAZ

[Louie's Dad]

Thanks everyone. I got the news I was dreading yesterday, shortly after this message, and my heart is broken.

Louie has lymphoma on both kidneys. We had him scanned in March and his kidneys were healthy, and when he had the surgery then, they said his kidneys looked healthy. As of yesterday one of the tumors was 2-3x the size of his kidney.

IDK how this could happen so fast and why my boy is being taken from me so soon. July 5th would be our 5 year anniversary together.

So, chemotherapy was an option, and it wasn't too outrageously expensive. But to do it would be 24 weeks of suffering for Lou to buy him a 1 in 5 chance at living a year. I am not going to let my boy suffer, so we have put him on prednizone and pain killers to make him feel better. My wife and I are just so destroyed. Our friends and family came over last night to be with Louie. He still enjoys a nice cold drink from the hose and some nice warm beef n rice for dinner. He also was mooching little nibbles of pizza off his daddy.

Here is Lou driving home from the vet. I think he knows. I don't know if this is gonna be a couple days or a couple weeks thing. I'm not gonna let him lose his dignity or suffer. I just don't know how to decide when it's time.