I actually got Red Bank hospital, the best in the state, to
schedule me an appointment with an internist at the earliest date, but
that is Thursday afternoon-- a long way away. I did try to talk the
regular vet into just trying the Leukeran, but he wouldn't, and Lucy
wasn't as bad yesterday anyway, and really I am not a vet, so maybe
there would be a downside to doing that. it is a chemotherapy drug
after all. i think you are supposed to wear gloves when administering
it.
I resorted to baby food and dry i/d, and after a pepcid and some
fluids she did eat 1.5 jars of baby food and a handful of the i/d
tonight. It will wreak havoc on her intestines, but I don't know what
else to do. I tried minced turkey breast plain and she would not touch
it. My mom bought duck and I cut some of that up. She seemed all
excited at first but only ate two bites of it.
I think she is acting less of her usual self now. She is still
playing, but not very enthusiastically. She is purring, though, and
wanted to go outside. Though she ate a whole lot of grass when she did
(which also wreaks havoc on her intestines). I found some bile vomit
with grass in it in a few places in the house, but Patches often eats
grass and throws up, so I am not sure it was Lucy (and if it was her,
not sure if it is just because she ate grass or from the underlying
condition).
Lymphoma is in the front of my mind, not the back. I feel
convinced she has it. She lost another 2 ounces today.
I upped her prednisooe to the amount they prescribe for severe
IBD and for small cell lymphoma, will keep giving her pepcid and
fluids, and will keep trying to feed her, until Thursday. I will fast
her Thursday morning in case they want to do the biopsy and I agree.
I had decided not to let her outside at all, because she eats
grass when I do and I find it all in her diarrhea and think it may be
irritating her intestines. But my mom convinced me to let her out
because she loves it so much, and in truth she ate more afterwards,
maybe because the grass settled her stomach. My friend's cat who has
lymphoma started eating a lot of grass when he got sick, so this also
has me worried. I am pretty miserable. Not sure what else I can do,
though.
Can you send me the turkey mush recipe? I will try it.
Thanks,
Michelle
