After racing Bella round and round the living room and playing lots of fetch and walking her (so she'd be thirsty and drink!), I brought Bella back up to work last night to take another look at her bladder. This time is WAS full!!!! AND, NO STONES!!!! Hooray! I took another look at her kidneys and they were the same.
Afterward, I took her right into my bathroom at work, put a pad down and proceeded to do a test run on catching her urine! It worked!
However, this morning was a whole different story.....I sat with her for over an hour trying to get her to go, and when she did she cut it off as soon as I tried to catch (she only got maybe 1/2 tsp out before she stopped and most of that was on the pad
). So I called the vet and asked if we could just to a cysto and they said to bring her on in....I wanted to do it before she had a chance to pee out that first morning urine!!
I just got the urinalysis results faxed to me, and here they are:
Glucose--Negative
Bilirubin--Negative
Ketone--Negative
Blood--3+ (whatever that means?)
pH--6
Protein--Trace
Urobilinogen--Normal
Nitrite--Negative
Leukocytes--Negative
Specific Gravity--1020
Then it says this:
Sedementation: Positive: Negative:
Bacteria +++
Crystals -
WBC +
RBC +
Immediately, I'm just glad she was negative for crystals!!! Yay! But it looks to me like she has a UTI, so I called to discuss it with Dr. Pitts. I'll have to call back in ~1 hr. because he's out.
Just wanted you to know....I'll let you know when I talk to him...I'm thinking she may need an antibiotic, and I wanted her to get it now instead of in a week when we get back!