Another update
Feb. 6th, 2012 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideJust got Sano's blood test results back, and of course, his platelets are almost gone again. Last year it was March 17th so I had a feeling it was going to be sooner rather than later. Remember just earlier the vet was saying to me that she'd seen 4 ITP cases this week. I mentioned it was last March when this happened, and she said she was wondering if it was going to be sooner, if it had something to do with the weather somehow because it had been so warm.
But what I think is that he goes on a round of pred which lasts through most of the damn summer. His platelets go back up (while he loses his hair, his muscle mass, and his liver values skyrocket,) and then they stay good for a while, and then start to decline. My own theory is that this is just the time of year when they get checked, and by the time this comes around, they're already low. Maybe they're actually declining slowly through winter.
So we have to go back tomorrow morning so they can count them in-house (another blood test) and also his thyroid was low, so they're going to run a thyroid test too (another few hundred dollars.)
JFC. I knew this was coming, but it all comes at once!
But what I think is that he goes on a round of pred which lasts through most of the damn summer. His platelets go back up (while he loses his hair, his muscle mass, and his liver values skyrocket,) and then they stay good for a while, and then start to decline. My own theory is that this is just the time of year when they get checked, and by the time this comes around, they're already low. Maybe they're actually declining slowly through winter.
So we have to go back tomorrow morning so they can count them in-house (another blood test) and also his thyroid was low, so they're going to run a thyroid test too (another few hundred dollars.)
JFC. I knew this was coming, but it all comes at once!
