{"id":10264,"date":"2015-03-27T19:07:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T02:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2015-03-27T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T02:07:05","slug":"simcoes-march-2015-checkup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2015\/03\/simcoes-march-2015-checkup\/","title":{"rendered":"Simcoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s March 2015 Checkup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our little Siamese, Simcoe, has Chronic Renal Failure (CRF). She has been doing well for over 3 years now with subcutaneous fluid injections every other day to keep her hydrated and quarterly check-ins with the vet to make sure her key blood levels and weight are staying within safe parameters.<\/p>\n<p>On March 14th she went in for her latest visit and round of blood work. As usual, she wasn&#8217;t thrilled about the visit and worked hard to stay in her carrier the whole time.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/032015\/simcoe_mar_2015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/032015\/simcoe_mar_2015_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>She came out long enough for the exam, and the doctor was healthy with her physical, though her weight had dropped a little again, going from  9.74lbs to 9.54lbs.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/032015\/simcoe_lbs_031415.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<p>Both her BUN and CRE levels remained steady.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/032015\/simcoe_bun_031415.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/032015\/simcoe_cre_031415.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately her Calcium levels continue to come back a bit high, so the vet wants her in for an ionized Calicum test. She has explained that it&#8217;s only the ionized Calcium that is a concern because it can build up in the kidneys and lead to more rapid deterioration, so we&#8217;d want to get her on something to reduce the risk if that was the case. We&#8217;ll probably be making an appointment once I return from my travels in mid April to get this test done.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, she gets to stay at home and enjoy a good book.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/032015\/simcoe_good_book.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/032015\/simcoe_good_book_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;my good book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our little Siamese, Simcoe, has Chronic Renal Failure (CRF). She has been doing well for over 3 years now with subcutaneous fluid injections every other day to keep her hydrated and quarterly check-ins with the vet to make sure her key blood levels and weight are staying within safe parameters. On March 14th she went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simcoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10270,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}