Originally Posted by kami999

Hi everyone, thank you for prayers they might possibly start working and are giving me hope. I went to the hospital and spoke with the specialist. Finally someone who knows what he is talking about, older vet with experience over 30 years. He said that looking at everything the lab results the xrays and all that they can check it looks like a viral infection, they are suspecting leptosterosis. He says it does not look like it is congenital because his kidney is normal size. Now lepto is contagious to humans with a very tiny chance of getting from a dog, but they are not sure if it is lepto and wont know it until seven days or so for sure after they obtain tests. It could be other bacterial infection. Now the good part is there is very slight improvement but there is an improvement and thats all that I wanted to hear. My baby is fighting and he is fighting hard. The kidneys have only over 4% of functioning but it is slightly increasing. He is saying that they want to see better results but that he is responding to treatment. If it goes up to 7 or 9 that I can take him home and he can be under ivs at home which isnt hard to do and that if he gets out of this horrible infection that he can have up to 30% or can surprise us all and have even more but he can live with it with special food and medications. My God this doctor has given my hope, I even got to see him they have him isolated considering lepto might be contagious but I got to pat his little head and he was awake, looked better to me. Now it is very very costly but I will do anything to save him, keep fighting. If anyone knows where I can start the possible process of donations, anything to help my baby because the costs will be so much more and it is already so much money. This is the latest update, there is a spark of hope. Praying Praying for my little baby to get well and come home to mommy because I miss him soooooo much.

Originally Posted by LuvMySissy

Kami - this is the best news!! Please ask your vet about a payment plan - many of them have one - and don't worry about anything but getting Miko better.

Petland should pay 100% of these bills as he has been sick since you got him. He obviously came to you with Lepto and provided the tests confirm this is what it is, your vet should have no problem documenting that fact. It is a shame the other vet didn't find this right away.

We're keeping the prayers coming. We all want little Miko to get better!!!!