The Memoirs of MooMoo

Scope Results - Part II - Diagnosis

Hello again, my friends. First, I want to thank all of you for your thoughts, prayers, e-mails, and rosettes - they all helped our family get through this tough time.

Second, you'll be happy to know that the vet specialist found something in my biopsy - I've been diagnosed as having moderate Inflammatory Bowel Disease - basically an allgeric reaction - to what, they haven't figured that part out yet. I'm on 3 different medications: short term (anti-biotics and Prednisone) and long term (Azathioprine [Imuran]). And I'm on some new sensitive stomach food that I'm slowly being introduced to by mixing some of my current food with the new stuff.

Momma and Daddy are happy that I'm liking my new food and that I don't mind taking 2 of the pills (they're in tablet form) but I do not like my anti-biotics (in capsule form) - I spit that one more than once - BOL! They think they can hide that stuff in my food but I found it - heh! Now they need to hand feed it to me with some of my food to make sure I eat it.

There are side effects mentioned with the meds I'm taking but the only thing I've been doing is drinking and peeing a lot. I had 2 accidents in the house but that was expected due to one of the meds - I just need to remember to let Momma or Daddy know when I gotta go so they're not surprised - oops!

I still can't have any snacks or treats but hopefully one day I'll be able to have them again if I can get this IBD under control. Let the healing begin!

Thank you again, my Dogster and Catster friends! =)