Vet Cetera magazine 2015

Abby went from making no urine
to making too much urine. Housed
in the hospital’s Kirkpatrick Foundation
Small Animal Critical Care
Unit, she received round-the-clock
care for 14 days.
“One thing that I have been so
happy with as a pet owner is just
the attention to detail and the care
and the true love that Abby has
received,” says Ashcraft. “I have constantly
received updates by phone in
the mornings and in the evenings letting
me know how things are going. I
didn’t even know before I walked in
this place that dogs could receive dialysis.
The fact that they were willing to
go the distance, as long as I was giving
them permission to go the distance,
should make anybody say, ‘This is the
place I should go when I need help.’”
“Her prognosis at this point is
pretty good to excellent,” says Lyon.
“Her kidney values have pretty much
normalized. I do think the only
reason Abby was successful in her
treatment was because of the team
approach that we have at Oklahoma
State. And that involves a lot of different
people, including really good,
dedicated owners that were observant
of their dog and brought her to her
primary care veterinarian in a timely
fashion. The primary care veterinarian,
who recognized the severity of
her disease and immediately referred
her for further care. That care was continued
by our emergency service and
then by our internal medicine and
surgery services for dialysis.”
Abby has returned to the hospital
for a couple of follow-up visits.
“Abby is producing sufficient
amounts of urine, and her kidney
enzymes have returned back to normal.
We will just have to monitor
those over time to see how much
damage was done,” says Lyon.
“To bring her in the state that
she was and then be able to pick
her up and the progress that we’ve
made in the last two weeks is just
uncanny,” says Ashcraft. “It’s an amazing
response to the way that she’s
healed. And being a normal puppy,
and running and jumping, being into
everything and destroying everything,
I just never thought we’d get back to
this point.”
DERINDA BLAKENEY, APR / CVHS
Abby shows Rebecca Dallam
how grateful she is for her
life-saving treatment at OSU’s
Veterinary Medical Hospital.
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