Re: Ginger

[Nina]

You know Michelle, Hideyo is right about abx making you feel like crap, 
not to mention major surgery. I'm not so sure I'd be thinking about 
Immuno-Regulin right now. From what I understand, it's a bacteria (?) 
that is introduced to trigger immune responses. I don't know, it just 
sounds like Ginger is overwhelmed enough as it is. I have nothing to 
base this on but intuition, and a general dislike for medication in the 
first place. I'd go with making sure she eats, sq fluids if she's 
dehydrated and Dox. Since it's not working anyway, I wouldn't even give 
her the appetite stimulant at this point, what's the use, you're force 
feeding her anyway.
Nina

Hideyo Yamamoto wrote:
Hi, Michelle, I am wondering she is having a difficult time to recover 
from the surgery itself – it’s a major surgery - something similar 
happened to my FIV positive cat, Leo – I almost lost him after the 
dental surgery and after giving him dox – he completely stopped eating 
for two weeks, my regular vet thought he would not recover and I knew 
she was thinking that I should euthanize him – I was devastated 
because I was not expecting it at all – but sometimes with cats with 
immune system already compromised will have a very difficult time to 
recover after the surgery –

Anyway, my holistic vet suggested that I stopped antibiotics right 
way, and give a remedy called phosphorus (sorry I am not sure if it’s 
the right spell) – it caused him a miracle, I think – after two weeks, 
he stood up all of sudden and started eating again! I cried so hard, 
and my regular vet was amazed about his recovery –

But it’s important that you give fluid every single day as hydration 
become critical to survival – which I did with Leo – he did not eat 
any food since I could barely force feed him, but I gave 100 ml of 
fluid twice a day – that’s what kept him alive until the miracle 
happened –

I will be praying that Ginger will soon feel better.
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She will not touch liver shake. She would not touch it several days 
ago either, though, when she was still trying to eat other things, so 
I think she does not like it. I am syringing it to her mixed with A/D. 
She does not want me to touch her now, I think because I have been 
syringing her so much and she hates it. She will play with a string, 
but otherwise hides from me.

Michelle
In a message dated 5/12/05 11:57:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
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    Hang on in there, Michelle--I can see why you're so down about
    Ginger, but I would think it is a big shock to have 10 extractions
    and her poor little mouth must feel terribly tender, if not
    downright painful. (Could she take something liquid like liver
    shake?) I would also think it's exhausted her. It's early days and
    so soon after the mouth surgery--she needs to recuperate. The fact
    she wants to play is surely a good sign (Levi and Caramel had NO
    interest in playing after they got really sick).
    I think you're right to give her antibiotics--mine