Marylyn,
When Buddie got her tube she was making a crying noise I had not
heard before it woke me up and the minute the vet opened we went it, it
was very much like a death cry, very gutteral. They wanted to keep her
there on IV fluids and my vet told me she probably wasn't going to make
it. I said no, I would take her home on the IV pump because if she was
going to die she was going to die at home with us, not at the vets
alone. They let me bring her home with the infusion pump with the
promise I would bring her in the next day for blood work to see how she
was doing. She was flat miserable, sepsis is very horrible and she was
fighting cancer on top of this. She didn't move from where I set her up
on the couch. The next day her blood work was worse, my vet said she
was pretty sure she wasn't going to make it, I talked it over with hubby
and all I could think about was how hard she had been fighting the
cancer and decided to giver her another day because she was at a
disadvantage having cancer too. The next day her blood work was normal,
her fever was gone, and except for her white cells which were still high
because they were fighting the sepsis infection which was throughout her
body she was normal, my vet was stunned and she was called the miracle
kitty thereafter. This was when she got the feeding tube because she
hadn't eaten hardly at all for the 4 or 5 days she was on the IV
fluids. I'm sure if I had asked Buddie at that time what she wanted to
do, she probably would have told me to leave her alone, same as I do
when I'm sick. I just had a feeling she was going to be OK, I honestly
didn't have that feeling the second time and that was why we had a talk
that night, I was hoping she was going to be OK but in my heart I think
I knew, but I still had to give her that opportunity and I know she was
OK with it, she made her choice and 3 days later let me know she was
OK. I am one of those people who has to do everything I can to try and
make my furkids better and they all know that, and I believe they are OK
with that because they all picked me.
--
Belinda
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