RE: Lucy not feeling well

[Hideyo Yamamoto]

My prayers are definitely with you and Lucy – are you planning to ask them to draw blood from her if you take her?  Does she have fever?   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 5:03 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Lucy not feeling well   For the past two days, Lucy has had liquid diarrhea, and now she is not eating at all and is acting less energetic than normal-- not chasing her laser toy, which she normally runs all around chasing obsessively, only playing with string a little.  She has had IBD since October, and was doing really well on a raw diet and 1.25 mg of prednisone every 3 days. This came on suddenly yesterday.  Apparently Gray left out a bowl of olive oil that he was dipping bread in, and when he went to put it away a few hours later noticed that a lot of it was gone. Lucy does like olive oil-- I gave it to her once when she was constipated, just a teaspoon full, and she licked it up.  So I am hoping that the way she is feeling right now, and the diarrhea, is just from her eating too much olive oil, and that it will get better soon.  I am not sure she has every stopped eating before though. I put her back on 10 mg/day of prednisone, and force-fed her some turkey baby food.  She also licked up a little turkey baby food on her own, but not much.  This morning there was foamy yellow puke with blades of grass in about 4 or 5 spots in the house, so maybe she started getting nauseous from the oil yesterday afternoon, ate the grass, threw up during the night, and now has an upset stomach. I am hoping that is all it is.  But she is positive, so I always fear lymphoma.  Salmonella is also a possibility, I guess, since she eats raw turkey, but it is apparently pretty rare for cats to get that.  Gray said he is pretty sure that a lot of the olive oil was missing, and there is nothing else that could have happened to it, as Patches can not jump on the counter.   I have a vet appointment scheduled for tomorrow morning. Do you think I should take her? Do you think that drinking a bunch of oil two days ago could make her still feel sick two days later and not want to eat? I guess that the fact that she already had IBD and could not even eat normal cat food without getting sick might make her respond worse to drinking oil than a normal cat would. I can not handle losing another cat right now.  Not that I can ever really handle it, I guess.    Any thoughts, advice, prayers, or good energy you can spare would be appreciated.   Thanks, Michelle