I apologize for not updating sooner. But I just brought Taz home. I had to leave him for some bloodwork and an ultrasound. Then an emergency came in and they "forgot" to call me. I called them after almost 3 hours.

Anyway, he has LOTS of fluid around his kidneys. And his kidneys are abnormal looking. Basically if I do not have surgery to remove the psuedocysts, kidney failure will progress probably quickly and fatally. However, even if we do remove the cysts he can (and probably will) still continue with the kidney disease. She cannot guarantee that removing them would slow down that process. There is just no telling. She said if it were her cat she'd do the surgery. About 4 months ago she had a 14 year old cat that also had the psuedocysts and came through surgery fine. So that made me feel a little better. What I am not feeling so good about is how abnormal looking his kidneys are. But she said the look of them doesn't matter as much as the numbers (BUN and creatine). And his are slowly, very slowly, going higher. Having him on the k/d food should help slow that process down (hopefully).

So she is going to call me tomorrow with the results of the bloodwork. Which he just had bloodwork done at the end of Sept. I can't imagine them being much different, considering they weren't different from March to Sept. Anyway, we will set up the surgery when she calls tomorrow.

Sigh. I don't like this.

Thank you for keeping us in your thoughts. I really appreciate it.