Isn't Dex mainly the same thing as prednisone, only injectable?
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From: "Nina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: Update on Kisa
Did you ask your vet about dex shots? If he is ready to give up on Kisa
and you are not, find yourself another vet.
Nina
C & J wrote:
Thank you all for your suggestions.
I went to the vet today and got some injectable chloropromazine. They
said it should help with the vomiting, though it is also a sedative. Kisa
still vomited this evening, about 3 hours after a syringe feeding, but
hopefully they drug just needs more time to work.
The vet got back some blood test results, and says that it looks like
cancer. They can't know for sure without a biopsy, but they don't
suggest doing that.
So really i'm left with not really knowing for sure what is going on.
They won't do chemo without a definite diagnosis for cancer. I'm not
sure if I could afford that anyway...they didn't say exactly how much it
would cost, but said it wouldn't be a good idea to spend thousands on
FeLV+ cat with a poor prognosis.
Kisa is absolutely hating the syringe feedings. She's all of 6-7 pounds
and it takes both my husband and I to hold her. For a weak kitty she
sure can put up a fight. By the time we're done, she's got food all over
herself, and us. I don't think she's going blind, because she takes off
like a shot after the feeding.
We allow her into our bedroom at night now...our bedroom is reserved for
sick kitties only. She really seemed to enjoy that, and even crawled
under the covers and curled up to me purring. I haven't seen her that
happy in awhile. But this mornign at 5:30 am, I woke up to a huge puddle
of orange pee (filled with Bilirubin) right between us. She didn't even
try to use the litter box or even squat to pee.
Well we were up after that trying to wash some of the bedding before
going to work.
It sure has been a long haul here, I can only hope somehow it will work
out.
Cassandra
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