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Originally Posted by littlelady  Little Davey has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, his fasting blood sugar today was 446. I had taken him 2 weeks ago to the emergency vet at PNC and his ammonia level was 414, he was put on lactulose and Amoxicillin.
My vet advised me to get another opinion and I did with a vet in Michigan.
This vet has trained at U. Michigan to do Portal shunt surgeries. At first he advised to do exploratory surgery and if there was an external one visible to apply the device that over a month would close off the vessel and give time for the other vessels to the liver to dilate to compensate for the blood flow.
He checked his urine with a multi stick and it was positive for glucose so he did the fasting glucose.
He now advises the surgerywould not be warranted and he would not have any quality of life and I should seriously think about putting him down.
My daughter has been crying on and off for 2 weeks now since this is her dog. |
Oh No
Poor little Davey. How is he doing?
I'm sorry you have to make this decision.