[Porsche-O-Phile]

She's kind of young to be having this kind of trouble so the suspicion is that a lot of it is simple genetic predisposition. She's 7-1/2 now - certainly not "old". When we brought her in for a checkup last year (after Charlie died, we were hyper-paranoid then) they discovered that the mass of her kidneys relative to her weight was low (i.e. she's got small kidneys) and subsequently there have been a couple of intermittent bouts with infections which we've always gotten cleared up with antibiotics and she's been on a regimen of special food (k/d diet) and at-home subcutaneous fluid injections.

Don't let the cute looks fool ya' - she's a fighter when she wants to be, so I hope she's got it in her to fight on for a good while more. I miss having her sitting here in my lap as I type this. She's awesome.