Fluid Update

You sure couldn't tell it by the amount of spitting our little lady is doing(notice the drop falling from her chin?), but according to her blood work she is erring on the side of dehydration. It makes no sense to me. She looks better than ever, is not vomiting, not stooling out, not anything(except for spitting). She is making good urine. Her FK levels are a little high, but not alarming. I have no idea where her fluid is going, but its not inside of her vessels. In the past I have always been able to look at Ash's appearance and tell you within days of her becoming dehydrated. She usually becomes very irritable and thirsty. Not so this time. So what do we do?

We gave the bolus over the weekend, today we are adding more to 1/2 normal to her formula recipe and are increasing the amount of cc's per hour that she is receiving. We will draw more blood work and check her chemistries again on Thursday and watch her closely. At this time that is all we can do. Hopefully it means nothing and hopefully this is not a red flag or indicator of anything brewing underneath the surface.

So this is what we know and now we wait. At least she's happy and knows how to spit, right?