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Originally Posted by M5Rick
How is Bella coming along, any news from the radiologist ..
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Still waiting on the pathology report. They are culturing out the tissue samples they took to see what grows. Apparently that takes 10 to 14 days.
CT scan showed some mild to moderate scarring in her lungs from the pneumonia. She also has inflammation in her lungs and lower airway, consistent with a chronic bronchitis. Once we have the pathology results back we can formulate a treatment plan.
We already decided that we will throw meds at this, but that's it. No more scopes and scans and procedures. It's just too much for her to go through. We will keep the antibiotics at the ready in case she comes down with it again and hope they work. But no more rushing her to the ER vet where they plunk her into an oxygen chamber for 5 days. If / when she comes down with Pneumonia again if the antibiotics dont remedy it, we will have to do the right thing by her and end it. it's terrifying knowing that it's coming but not knowing when. She went nearly 10 years between pneumonia episode 1 and 2. But then episode 3 was just 4 months after episode 2. In all cases she was totally normal in appearance, then barely able to breathe in a matter of just a few hours. So it comes on in the blink of an eye. all we can really do is be happy that she's happy and comfortable right here, right now, today. Tomorrow we will worry about tomorrow.