Longtime member, not active. Had a basenji with the same diagnosis back in 2004. He took a tremendous amount of bicarb each day, his Fanconi was being well managed, but he started having seizures at night. Our vet gave us something to stop the seizure that we'd administer rectally. We kept track of the number of seizures and they started becoming more frequent, to about twice a week, if I recall. The final seizure he had he went temporarily blind and howled and howled and we knew that was it was time. I just sat on the floor with him and cried. A couple months later we looked at photos we had taken of him right before and he looked very, very tired. Very much the hardest thing we had ever done was to let him go across the Bridge, but after looking at those photos, we had done the right thing. Our vet had told us that it was possible he would have a seizure and not come out of it, and we certainly didn't want that.
Our Fanconi retest results.
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APU TRI ROO OF GANESA
TROG
M BJ
HP19329802 Fanconi Retest Received: 11/11/2011
Processed: 11/16/2011
Test: FANCONI SYNDROME
Results: CLEAR/NORMALMEISTERHAUS DEAL OR NO DEAL
XANDER
M BJ
HP28853103 Fanconi Retest Received: 11/11/2011
Processed: 11/15/2011
Test: FANCONI SYNDROME
Results: CARRIERQuite happy with our new results. The first time Trog was a Carrier with the blood test and Xander an indeterminate between clear and carrier.
I have not retested the girls yet, with the linkage test Tempest was clear and Gambit Carrier. I figure I have plenty of time to get them retested later as we will be doing all of their xrays next yr once they turn two, and will get the retests done sometime after that.
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Great news, but you might want to take advantage of retesting while BCOA is kicking in and making the test 50.00 instead of 65.00
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Thats true, I guesss I could get my carrier retested now. Not sure there is a reason to retest the clear as the parents were clear and carrier.
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Thats true, I guesss I could get my carrier retested now. Not sure there is a reason to retest the clear as the parents were clear and carrier.
Yes there is a reason to retest clears, if you read Dr Johnson's write up from the Nationals, he clearly says that even pClear to pClear could produce Carriers, so a pClear to pCarrier could make that pup a Carrier or even Affected if that pClear turned out to be a Carrier.
It is recommended that all potential breeding stock be retested with the direct test. And if I had a pClear to pCarrier regardless if I were considering breeding, I would retest.
