Update

I'm so upset. I feel like a major sugar crash - but it's just the exhaustion of all the vet appointments. Today Bailey first had accupuncture - although it was painless, I was still stressed out. Then an hours wait for the neurologist, then that appointment.

She thinks that Bailey is systemically sick. She's lost so very much weight and continues to get worse, plus the weakness, atrophy, refusal to eat, and has general apathy.

Since the clindomiacin antibiotic didn't work, then the type of nerve disease is probably a sterile disease like meningitis, which can only be diagnosed with a spinal tap. But to do a spinal tap, she'd have to be intubated and anesthetized again, which is risky on such a sick dog. Plus, being on prednisone could mask some of the data needed to prove it's meningitis. And the drugs for meningitis are bad news immunosuppressants.

Or maybe it's a tick borne disease. A little less likely, but we can start her on Doxycycline tabs to see if that causes any improvement. So, we're doing that as well as sending off her blood sample to see if that's what it is. If it isn't, then I have to decide whether or not to have another very expensive and dangerous test done, to see if dangerous drugs are called for; or not.

Not a happy thought.