very worried about Lucy

[Lernermichelle]

Yesterday Lucy seemed on the mend. I had fasted her for about 12 hours, then gave her little bits of cooked turkey every half hour or so in the morning.  She ate it the first 3 or 4 times and was in good spirits, no vomiting or diarrhea, so I went to work. Gray was at home.  She ate a little more turkey for him, not much, during hte da, and spent over an hour walking around outside. When I called him from work he said she was doing well.  When I got home she did not want to eat anything and was a little out of it.  Still no vomiting or diarrhea, and it had been over 24 hours.  But she had not urinated either.  So we gave her more fluids. And I offered her raw turkey with feline futures mixed in, and she ate a little.  Then at around 11 pm she had completely liquid diarrhea again, and seems very wasted again now and will not eat again.  She still weighs over 8 pounds, but I think it is because she has fluids in her.  She is starting to feel bony along her back.  She is still sniffling a little bit.   If she  were just hving hte diarrhea and not a URI, I would up her pred to 10 or 12 mg/day for a few days, which normally helps.  But I am afraid to do it because of the URI.  I am calling the vet in the morning to lobby for budesonide again-- does anyone know if that has less chance of making her URI worse than prednisolone?   I am also considering taking her to Red Bank to the internist. But it is a 3 hour round trip ride, and she is very stressed in the car, and if this is a matter of her getting over a URI and after-effects of the abx, it seems like a bad thing to stress her that much. The vet said her blood work a week ago was fine.  I did not ask about the corona titer, but will tomorrow.   Any thoughts would be appreciated.   Thanks, Michelle