[bellasmomok]

Just for comparison....I measured Bella's kidneys while I was looking at her bladder and they were 3.17 and 3.19 cm in length (saggital). She is 3.7 lbs now I guess (she was 4.0 before we started with the vege diet, so I'm expecting her to pick back up to 4.0 soon since I started home cooking), and she is long-ish too--at least, I think she looks long. (She is a normal looking height, though....my aunt's Yorkie looks a little short-legged to me, and Bella doesn't look like that.) I know Tiki and Bella don't weigh the same, and I have no idea if Bella's kidneys would be considered small by a Vet Radiologist or not, but I don't think I'd hold too much stock in that. I'd be more concerned with shrinking (which you wouldn't find unless you did several US's) or hydronephrosis or cortical thinning (which is when the parenchymal tissue starts thinning....I see this in renal failure and elderly patients). Otherwise.....I don't know how size could be a very good indicator of anything at all???

I know exactly what you mean about wanting no more high drama for awhile!! I'm in the same boat......I have seriously taken this on like I would if it were my daughter (because Bella really is my daughter....and my first one at that!), so I have been stressed, even more so that I actually realized. Today was a little stressful since Bella has decided she doesn't care for brown rice much and hasn't eaten much at all today, but Dr. W. gave me lots of help with that, thank goodness!!! I don't know how I'd ever do this without him and without you all.....I'd never make it!

I'll be checking back in to hear more after your consult....can't wait to hear what he says!