Starting treatment

L, Thank you so much for your support and knowledge!
I spent several nights and days on the internet researching kidneys ;-) and finally got to talk to my own vet. He spent 1.5 hours with me going over Allie's blood work and urine. She is not concentrating as well as she should, and there is some blood. There are some anomalies in her blood values. So we have scheduled a thorough ultrasound for next week with the best woman in town (I researched this). Allie is on phosphorus binders, and he gave me some Eukanuba Early Kidney, since she refuses to eat k/d (dog; she loves k/d for cats!). He also recommends what they do on the web: regular protein diet, supplementing with omega-3, fish-body oil, vitamins E and B-12. She is low thyroid, so that may have to be treated, although she isn't showing symptoms. We probably will do a fluid treatment next week to get BUN and creatinine down at least temporarily to give her a break, depending on what the ultrasound shows. But he is letting me do one thing at a time, and putting the diagnostics before the treatments! What a relief, to speak with my own trusted vet and have him be rational and, I feel, thinking of Allie's best interests. She is such a great gal, she really deserves it.

I don't know how much longer I can continue taking time off work for my back problems (facet joints and annular discs, yeah), but while I do, I'm enjoying every minute with Allie!! ;-)