More tests

Thanks guys, for helping me to look for my appetite. I think some of them came back. I managed to finish 3/4 of my dinner last night, but my M had to split it into 3 portions for me, coz I don't feel like eating after a few mouthfuls. So she kept them and gave it to me every hour or so, until I ate most of it.

Anyway, I took another chest x-ray at the vet. The vet said the improvement is only slight, and when he listened to my chest, it still sounded abnormal. Also, he's concerned that my improvement may only be temporary due to the steroids he gave me a week ago.

Here's my x-ray done a week ago.

Chest x-ray on 19 Sep


The circled red areas are the cloudy patches. The vet said that a normal lung should look dark, somewhat like the circled blue area.

This is my chest x-ray done yesterday. It looks a little darker partly because the film was not placed flat on the screen, but can still see some improvement.

Chest x-ray on 24 Sep


The vet says that he would prefer to take a lung sample so that we know what kind of bacteria I have and to see if the antibiotics given is the most appropriate one. So I'll going back to the vet later. It's a 15 min procedure, in which I will be knocked out. They will intubate me, and give me oxygen at the same time when they take the sample. The vet says they will inject a type of fluid into my lungs, then extract the fluid again and send it to the lab for tests.

However, my immunity will be lowered after the procedure, so I still have to return for antibiotic injections everyday. The vet says that the results will take a week to be out, and once we know what bacteria it is, he can give me the right antibiotic for that bacteria. However, it is also possible that the results will not show anything, but he thinks that will be a good sign, because it means that my current antibiotics is working and the bacteria is now so small that it's not showing up in the tests. So either way, we'll know more after the tests are done.

So paws crossed everyone!