Andi - don't give up hope! This is exactly the situation that Ahi was in a month before MUSH and he pulled off a complete recovery (admittedly, he's relatively younger than Maggie). We were also on aluminum (to lower phosphorus) and cimetidine (to prevent ulcer formation - like pepcid) - unfortunately, there probably wasn't any way to tell as to when Maggie might be likely to go into kidney failure so as to start the meds early. Ahi was the one that we were doing the subcutaneous fluids on - have they talked about doing an IV for Maggie? Sometimes hydration does help with reducing the amount of kidney failure. Sometimes you can't tell whether it's permanent kidney failure (which is fatal eventually) or temporary kidney failure initially.

We did consider putting Ahi down during the worst days of his condition and SO glad that we didn't. As long as you see that light in her eyes and she doesn't seem to be in pain, don't give up on her!!!

Masaki