Ginger did not seem right when I got home last night-- she did not come
down to greet me as usual or ask for food. She did eat her dinner, though not
all of it, so I thought I would wait until morning and see how she was. This
morning she would not eat. She did chase a string, but afterwards was very
sluggish and seemed sort of tender when I touched her, like it bothered
her. So I took her to the ER and had blood work and x-rays done. She was
tender in the abdomen on palpation. Her blood work was normal except her BUN was
a little low (14) which apparently can sometimes mean liver problems (but her
liver values were ok) and her glucose was a little high (but in the range that
it could be stress). Her temp was 103.1, but her wbc's were normal. Her
x-rays were odd, though. There were two white spots that the ER vet could not
interpret. She thought they could be gall stones, or some sort of foreign object
moving through her upper intestines. One one slide her left kidney looked larger
than the right, also, but on the other slide it didn't. The ER vet wanted to
keep her overnight and give her IV fluids and take x-rays again in the a.m. I
took her home and gave her sub-q fluids instead, and will take her to the local
vet in the a.m. She ate a whole bowl of dry food when she got home.
I had given her pepcid and periactin before we left for the vet. I am not sure
if she felt better, or those were working, or it was the adrenalyn from the vet
visit that made her eat. I gave her fluids. She is laying next to me, and seems
quite out of it. However, when Gray started printing something (she loves the
printer), she shot up, jumped off the bed and onto the desk, and starting
hitting the papers as they came out. Afterwards she seemed more tired than
before, though, and seems really out of it again.
I don't know what's wrong, and it's weird to have no
clue. Right now I am glad she ate and hit at the printer, and guess I will just
have to wait until tomorrow morning to get more answers (hopefully). She
is FeLV+ and almost 7 years old, so I am of course very nervous that her virus
has been triggered.
Please say a prayer of some sort for her.
Thanks,
Michelle
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