Saturday checkup

Well, all didn't go as planned. We went in for a hematocrit count and that was up to 29 form 27 yesterday so we are moving in the right direction with that, but his heart rate was still 240+ and Dr. Freedman was not comfortable with that at all.

Our 10:30 appointment lasted almost 3 hours... She got a new ECG run and over 5-7 minutes he only showed about 15 seconds of normal rhythm. She sent the strip to CardioPet and after about an hour Dr. Culvert called back and told her that it was about 97% atrial tachycardia and 2% PVC the other 1% was normal. So he prescribed 20mg of Sotalol (I have to cut the pills into quarters) and hopefully that will help his heart rate get back to normal so he will start to feel better.

He did eat most of a can this afternoon so that was good news and his heart rate is down. The vet loaned me a stethoscope to help count the beats and my feeble attempt this afternoon was about 150. He will get another dose around 8:00 tonight, if it's under 200 beats/minute then only 20mg if over 200 bpm then another double dose of 40mg. He is sleeping quite a bit this afternoon but when he is up he look like he feels better, still on a low dose pain killer though. He feels well enough right now to lick to the point that he needs to wear his e-collar, kind of a bummer.

We'll see what tonight brings...