Last week, Myrna was at Michigan State Vet School for a check on renal values/kidney function. I checked Myrna in with Internal Med. Myrna’s appointment was at 9:30 and we were
there by 8:50 but they took us right away.
And it turned out that the med student, Amanda, assigned to Myrna, was
the one who assisted with Cooper last June.
So, it was nice to have a friendly face to talk to about Myrna’s history. Again, since MSU needs a history, I had
written up Myrna’s entire health history along with a list of medications,
amount, and timing of administration.
Eventually, the doctor came in and I again reviewed her
history and my concerns. The concerns
were that she was drinking a lot of water and urinating much more frequently,
starting about September, than ever before, and that her specific gravity had
fallen from 1.030 to 1.006 which is not suppose to be a good sign of kidney
function. Myrna is at risk of developing
renal failure because of the effect of her heart disease on her body as well as
the drugs that she takes for her heart-lasix, enalapril, aspirin, etc. We discussed the types of tests I wanted to have
done: Glomular Filtration Rate (GFR) test, blood pH, UPC-urine, protein,
creatinine test, and a scan. They would
also do a urinalysis and gather a blood gas, from which they would also do a
partial CBC/chem panel blood screen.
If no protein presents in the urine, there is no need for a
UPC, a test to determine how much protein is present. Neither protein, glucose,
blood, crystals, etc. should be present in the urine. Anything in the urine indicates an
illness/disease in the body or a malfunction of the kidneys. It depends, of
course, what is found and what else appears in the blood work. Eventually, no protein was found in the urine
so they did not do a UPC test on Myrna.
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