Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
What a sad story, Christina. I've seen the seniors all too often go through versions of this, prompting my article Stop Vaccinating Your Seniors.
I'm with you on the DM diagnosis, but have no idea about what's being tested for.
And I long ago stopped being hung up on diagnostic labels, as they are a tool of conventional medicine so that everyone under a label gets the same treatment. In homeopathy, we rather treat HOW the individual is showing his sickness, so 3 dogs with hind end paralysis might well need 3 different approaches.
From laryngeal paralysis to rear end paralysis, this is classic for how the disease of rabies travels. Not in every case, but when we see it, and there's a history of rabies vaccination, we see it as rabies vaccinosis, plain and simple.