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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

Okay...JUH-EEEZ!!!! My heart goes out to you. There are a lot of issues here.

Partially, I'm just bumping this for you. Partially, I have a few measly things to say, but not much. I do feed raw and think it's tremendous. I had terrible digestive issues with Marcel - and spent hundreds early on at the vet - without any real resolution. FINALLY, I found a nutritionist (holistic, but classically trained) who works at a vet practice in Calif. and consults via phone internationally - out of desperation, I thought, what the heck.

Well, she changed everything for Marcel. Many vets, nationally, do nutritional consults w/ her for their cancer pet patients. She does use raw for her liver patients - I don't know how - but I know that she does bc she once mentioned this in passing as she is a big believer in raw (but in variety as well). Personally, I think she is *wonderful* - and I can't say enough about her.

Marcel recommends her even more highly (my avatar). You can check her out at - www.askariel.com. I can't answer your more complicated stuff - but I know that she, perhaps in concert w/ YOUR vet as well as HER staff vet, could get you really well situated. Just my 2 cents.

Please keep me posted, if you can!

I am also going to strongly consider talking to your nutritionist also. I do like the thought of seeing Dr Shawn for in hopes of making him our actual vet if we like him. so that was my main reason for scheduling with him. But.... Dr Susan Davis has exactly what we need. I just know it! Just from reading her site. I don't know about all the supplements though. Seems like a lot. I wonder if the ones she mentions for kidney condition are all necessary? she mentions like 10 of them. I am going to keep looking at her pages of info.

Do you remember how long the phone consult was? Did you fax over the labs to her or did she ask you for them over the phone? I am going to talk to my husband in the morning about her. Plus we don't have kidney disease yet... I know it's coming in our future though :-( I am still learning. I do know that the protein loss can complicate things a lot once kidney disease sets in.