Zorro the Corgi – Page 3 – Second Chance AIHA Dogs

Sara

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Hi Stacey .. I’m Sara and my sweet Girl Flossie has AIHA .. we are just over 9 months from first diagnosis.

First off sounds like you are really on top of things and doing a lot of good for your sweet Zorro. Also sounds like your vet has reached for the right meds and choices with blood transfusions. My girl ended up with 4 blood transfusions and was non-regenerative until week 5.

As far as reaching the 30’s we didn’t hit the 30’s with Flossie until the late 3 month mark. I believe I’m correct in saying that all dogs react differently though ( Valley and Sheena can correct me here) I think it just all depends on how quickly the body responds and makes all those baby RBC’s . My Flossie was a slow go and as I said they were giving up hope in week 4 because she showed non-regenerative and wanted to do the bone marrow asperate. However we opted for adding another drug and within a week of adding another drug she became regenerative.

As for taking Zorro to work .. I think as long as you are able to keep her calm and quiet. My Vet …and I think the girls here will tell you that rest is really good for them with this disease. Too much exertion and they can relapse or so my vet said. You have to remember they are Anemic which means the body is very tired and weak even if they don’t show it like us humans do.Also you want to be certain the other dogs are healthy and coming from healthy environments with Zorro’s immune systems so compromised virtually shut down from the immunosuppressants she has no way to fend off illness. So just be super cautious ..you’ve already gone to so much trouble to save Zorro and give her such amazing care that you wouldn’t want to compromise all you have done.

I’m so glad that Zorro is responding to treatment and that she has someone so loving and willing to care for her .

BTW .. if the Denamirin gets too costly you can do Sam-E and Milk Thistle. That’s what I did .. Flossie got 1- 400 mg tablet of Sam-e per day and 300 mg of milk thistle twice a day when on all meds. She was a weight of between 55 and 62 lbs and this is what our internal medicine specialist prescribed. I just bought both the milk thistle and the sam-e via Vita Cost online .. very reasonable on Vits and supplements here in US.

Lastly .. Flossie is as I said 9 months out and she was just taken off her last med approx 4 weeks ago. Her first blood test at the 2 week mark her hematacrete was 47 we go in tomorrow for another blood test and I think it will be good she’s beautifully red in gums, eating like a horse and super playful. So all that to say there is hope, dogs do survive this disease it takes a lot of dedication on our parts but they can make it.

Take Care and saying a prayer for you and sweet Zorro !

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