I'm sorry I missed your last post Fiona, I haven't updated this for a while but thought I'd do a quick one now. Tills was referred to the Edinburgh Uni vet school a couple of weeks ago to see the professor of internal medicine - tbh I didn't think they were going to be able to pull a miracle cure out of the bag or anything but I just want to know that I've done absolutely everything I can for her and explored every avenue that we have open to us - basically it couldn't do any harm. We had a very long consultation where he went over her symptoms and treatment to date and he agreed with my vet that it sounded like a case of GI lymphoma but as they can't be 100% certain there was one treatment option we hadn't tried previously which was a new antibiotic specifically developed to treat things like IBD plus a new specialised diet. So we went for that and she had two weeks of the new drug and the completely hydrolysed kibble (which is like white beans). Unfortunately though as I've come to expect the drug hasn't had any effect and having spoken to the professor again today there isn't anything else they can do for Tills so she won't be going back again. With lymphoma there is no cure anyway but even with IBD sometimes there are cases which just do not respond to any treatment. She's now just on a low maintenance dose of Pred, painkillers (just in case) an antiinflammatory and antiemetics.
Depressing as that was to be told, even if it wasn't really a surprise, there is a small amount of goodish news though, Tills has been good in herself these last couple of weeks, she seems to have hit a kind of plateau whereby she's not getting any better but she's also not getting appreciably worse. This can apparently happen in these cases and it's a matter of making the most of it while you can which is what we're doing. She's still very thin and tires easily but she's bright enough most of the time and she's enjoying being out and about in the good weather so I'm just trying to keep her happy for as long as it lasts. Her current diet is the hydrolysed stuff in the mornings and boiled rice and cottage cheese in the evenings, it's about the most hypoallergenic diet there is to try to give her stomach some kind of respite and the rice and cc gives her a bit of variety. Other than that she is being very spoiled, she can pretty much do whatever she wants whenever she wants to do it, we're going to all her favourite places and doing her favourite things
