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Good!! (I had forgotten you used to be a vet tech!)
I have to admit, before Bella got spayed and before I knew more about it, I wasn't really convinced that pre-op blood work was really all that necessary....I planned to do it anyway since I was so nervous about how she would handle the aneshesia, and I DEFINITELY didn't want to lose my baby over not doing a simple test. Now, however, I'm a BIIIIG proponent of it.....She also is a very healthy little puppy, no symptoms of any kind at all. Other than her tearing (which is probably more allergies than anything else), she's perfect! HOWEVER, her pre-op blood work came back with an elevated ALT (302!!)
I'm having her re-tested in 2 weeks, this time with a complete blood chemistry profile, CBC, AND a bile acid test. Hopefully it turns out to be nothing at all, but I'm worried it won't.....
I would suggest you have a bile acid test done on your baby too, before her surgery, especially since liver shunts, etc... are so prevalent in Yorkies. I asked to have Bella's done (after a YT member, maybe Ellie May??, said that all Yorkies ought to be tested for this before surgery) at the same time they were doing the pre-op blood work, but you can't do that test on the same day as the surgery, so I didn't do it. (They take a fasting blood sample--water is ok, and then they take another sample 2 hrs after eating a fatty meal....the after meal draw is why they can't do it on the same day as surgery.) I wish I had known what I know now.....that if you have a bile acid test done before (if it's positive, I think you'd have to have another test done too before to be sure it's really a shunt), you can just have the liver shunt corrected at the same time as the spay....so only under anesthesia once!