Well, Artie’s blookwork came back mixed. One of the thyroid indicators was normal and one was high.
I talked to the vet and he suggested halving her thyroid medicine for about a month and then getting her weight and doing the blood work again. This way we’ll see if the thyroid was causing the weight loss or not.
One possible bonus to halving the thyroid medicine is that it might cause Artie to slow down a bit. That would be a good thing. She still runs and jumps like she’s 12 months instead of 12 years. Artie also has a high pain threshold. When she was about a year old she cracked a bone in her paw. We didn’t know anything had happened until she went running through the house crying in pain. She didn’t stop running, though.
Artie’s been falling a bit more lately and I’ve been worried that she’ll jump and land wrong or run into something and hurt herself. If her energy levels go down a bit, maybe that fear can ease some.
