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Hi,all! If you have any prayers left, please say a few for Maggie. I got home today to find two messages from her vet. She had lab tests yesterday, rechecking in particular her liver enzymes [we've been treating for 6 weeks with S-Adenosyl (SAM-e)/milk thistle/Vitamin E]. Not only have her liver enzymes not gotten better, they have gotten drastically worse. She has also lost another two pounds. I'll talk with the vet on Monday but present plan is to take blood on April 9th for an ACTH/adrenal panel that will be analyzed by an endocrinologist at Univ. Tenn.(same test that Lora's Tippi recently had). This is to determine if Maggie has atypical Cushings (even though weight loss is not reported in Cushings' dogs). If test comes back negative or ambivalent, I am not sure where we go from there. Liver biopsy in January didn't show any signs of liver cancer. We have to wait until the 9th because I am using a cortisone spray on Maggie's sores and we have to stop that for 10 days to make sure test results are not skewed from that. Guess I'll use lots of diaper rash cream until after the tests. I feel like finding that woman at PetSmart and waving Maggie's test results in her face! :grr: