Good thoughts needed for Opal, please...
Opal has been having mild bladder issues for the past year, which we've treated with alternative and conventional treatments. About 6 weeks ago, Opal had a UTI for which she was put on antibiotics. All was well until early Monday morning Opal woke me up with a loud cry and needed outside in a hurry. We caught her pee and it was very bloody with small pieces of blood in the catch. (Ironically, Dr. Wanda had phoned on the previous Thursday to ask how Opal was doing.) I put a call into the vet on Monday to report what was going on. Tomorrow Opal will have a Cystocentesis (a long needle into her bladder to draw out an uncontaminated sample) and we'll go from these results.
Ironically, too, we went camping again 2 weeks ago and my sister developed a UTI over past weekend, so we had the stuff in the house for natural/home treatments. We put Opal on the same treatment as sis, and low and behold, this afternoon's pee catch shows that Opal's pee is much less bloody, and Opal is more perky instead of lethargic. Treatment is; increased cran-caps and pro-bios, Echinacea, Cantharis/homeopathy, Arinca/homeopathy for pain, and drinking more water.
Please keep Opal in your thoughts and prayers that she'll not be too stressed with tomorrows tests and this is just a bad UTI and nothing more serious.
Thanks!