Current Medical Status

It's been 6 days since we've started Cassie on the antibiotics for her bladder infection. I was a bit curious/concerned/apprehensive about her taking the (additional) drugs since she seemed to be having less trouble urinating. But, doctor's orders... In the past week she's cycled from what seemed to be a completely normal for her bathroom cycle to more recently taking advantage of opportunities to go if we're outside. She's no longer asking every 15 minutes, or every hour, to go out. In fact, most of the time recently we've had to make her go out. But, then she goes. We're flummoxed by the variability of her health. Some days she's perky, others she mopes around. The last 2 days she's been old normal Cassie, which means very indifferent to food. We'd been feeding her her normal TD, mixed with hi-pal food the past month. And even without steroids or phenob she'd been scarfing it up. But, not the past 2 days. Maxine has a theory that the antibiotics have been upsetting her stomach. She's also taking probiotic powders on her food, and hoping to determine the eating issue, we've been limiting that. But still, the reluctance to eat. Ordinarily, meaning for most of her life, we'd let her go with that. (The vet had said years ago, "she's a dog, she'll eat when she's hungry"). But now we have to bribe her daily because she needs something in her stomach when she has her meds. All of this ambiguity makes Maxine's and my life hard to plan. Can we count on weeks/months... maybe even a year or to(???) of her life? But then it swings the other direction. This morning I tried to reassure Maxine, saying that we're doing everything we can for Cassie. It's like waiting for something bad to happen. Knowing it's going to happen. Knowing it's going to hurt. And not being able to avoid it.