Monday, September 29, 2008
Our cat, Chanel, has been pretty sick. I am worried about the poor guy. He just doesn’t seem to be getting better.
It started just over a week ago. He was throwing up. Not entirely unusual, as he has had a lot of problems over the years. We don’t get too alarmed at a little cat barf. It’s par for the course. We assumed he had overeaten or something. But it kept going. He wasn’t keeping down any food at all. He stopped asking for food. So, Richard decided it was time for a trip to the doctor. We couldn’t just have a barfing cat the entire time my folks were here… Tests were done, hydration injections were administered. The bill added up. We were sent home. Diagnosis so far: Feline Pancreatitis. We were to not feed him for a few days, just give him medications. We tried. Most of the time he couldn’t keep those down. We just started giving him the tiniest amount of food. Tuna actually, since it is “easy to digest”. He had trouble with that. Sadly anything that finally stays down causes problems on the other end. Severe diarrhea. Ew, right?
The poor guy has no energy. No motivation. He’s losing weight. He doesn’t even *want* food! Worse, I have only seen him drink water twice in the last 4 days. It’s scary and sad.
Mostly sad.
:( Poor kitty.
Posted by cheapblueguitar on 09/29 at 05:40 PMI saw your post on Plurk and had to stop by… I’m so sorry to hear your kitty isn’t well. :( I hope he gets better soon… There’s nothing worse than when your kitty is sick! :( I need to go home and hug my boys now…
Posted by Rick on 09/29 at 07:31 PMawww, poor kitty! sending get well soon hugs!
Posted by musikchyck on 09/29 at 08:45 PMI am so sorry Daniel! I hope it turns around for the better soon!
Posted by soapbox.SUPERSTAR on 09/30 at 06:57 AMI hope he pulls thru Daniel! :-( *hugs to Chanel*
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 09/30 at 10:13 PMhe is doing better… we are not totally out of the woods tho. but he’s eating and keeping it down!!
Posted by daniel on 10/01 at 06:02 PM
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