Belinda,
I'm so sorry for your upset at this newest development with Fred.
Please do your best to stop kicking yourself, (go ahead and kick
others), for the "whys" of Fred's infection. I know how difficult it
must be with all your worries about the future, but do your best to
enjoy how happy Fred is at this moment. It's so telling that he has
gone back to his old ways when he was able to remove the tube. I know
how important it is to you to make use of every medical advantage in
helping Fred extend his life, but try to let go of that, at least for a
moment, and fully enjoy his small pleasures with him. Give that boy of
yours a head butt from his Auntie Nina. Who knows, if you approach the
argument in just the right way, (please do it for mother!), if you
figure out ways to get his meds into him in less stressful ways,
(transdermals and/or injections perhaps?), you may be able to continue
to treat him and give him a better quality of life at the same time.
My prayers are with you,
Nina
Belinda wrote:
Hi All,
I was going to have them put another tube in but I think they
would have to wait 2 or 3 weeks because his infection isn't gone yet
and they said we would have to wait for that to completely heal. But
I have already decided to wait on the tube because it is so obvious
that Fred is a different cat without it. He slept on my pillow for
the first time in 6 weeks, coincidentally about as long as he had his
tube. Even Mike, my hubby noticed the difference, Fred was scratching
on the bathroom door wanting in while hubby was in there this morning,
something he did every morning before he got the tube but not once after.
My greatest concern is getting his meds into him and getting him to
eat enough. Gave him his blood pressure meds this morning and it
wasn't pretty, I can get the pills into him, it's getting him to drink
or eat something after to make sure they go down and don't sit in his
throat. I've made a deal with him that if he learns to cooperate with
meds and eats better in the next 2 or 3 weeks we will put off the
feeding tube indefinitely, so we'll see what happens.
I'm going to ask my vet about injections for his potassium supplement
and find out if his norvasc can be compounded or if it comes in an
injectable, I think I already called the companies that sell it and I
don't think it can be made into an injectable but I really don't
remember. It's been a very trying 6 weeks, Fred's had an infection
for pretty much most of that time.
I'm worried about what the future holds but I'm really going to try
and just take it one day at a time.
