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Wednesday, October 15, 2008, ( 1 view ) - Treatment - Posted by Emily

Last night, Dr. Perry sent me an email. The culture results from his incision infection came back and it looks like another antibiotic is needed (Newton is so not going to be a happy boy). One of the bugs that was in his incision is relatively resistant to the Cephalexin. Therefore, in addition to the Cephalexin, Newton will have to take 3 tablets of Enrofloxacin (136 MG) twice a day.

As for the histopath results of Newton's limb, the preliminary results came back as inflammatory with numerous infiltrates of immune cells (lymphocytes and plasma cells) with no signs of infectious agents. No overt tumor cells were noted in these preliminary sections. In essence, the wait continues.

I think that Newton would rather take car rides to the dog park than to the vets...although he is quite the trooper. Today, Newton saw Dr. Rewick.

Newton is still feeling a bit run down. I'm hoping that this new set of antibiotics will help (they are certainly expensive enough). For the first round, I hid them in McDonald's Double Cheeseburgers (only a buck). He must have been hungry because he scarfed them down. Getting his Cephalexin and round two of the Enrofloxacin down was a different story.

I wish that I could get Newton to eat something. He didn't even want to eat any chicken skin...which is one of his favorites. I just want my boy to feel better. It hurts me to see him this way. I want my Newton back.



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