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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Update on Jack 3/24/21

3/22/21 - after 7pm Jack vomited. 3/23/21 - had multiple accidents on the kitchen floor, wasn't interested in eating breakfast and he was drinking a lot of water again. Damian texted me around 1pm saying Jack threw up 5 times. I called the vet, they wanted us to drop him off so they could squeeze him in to be seen. They ran some bloodwork, he was dehydrated, his cortisol was really low and he had low sodium and high potassium. All of this was an indication that the adrenal gland is now under producing cortisol, which could be fatal. We were instructed to stop the mitotane, hold off on the pimobendan (heart meds) for the night and only give insulin if he kept his food down for 90 mins after dinner. We need to keep him out of any stressful environments, him getting stressed activates some other hormone which isn't good for him at this time. They also ran a test with his blood work, fructolose(?) or something like that, it will tell us how effective the insulin has been. Which I'm thankful for because I feel like he is on a super high dose.

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