I brought Kisa home from the vet today. She's been fully hydrated and had a nasal feeding tube in place, with the lovely lampshade around her neck. She is still very lethargic/depressed, but a little more alert and her eyes look better. We're still no closer to a proper diagnosis though, because she is too weak to undergo surgery to obtain a biopsy of her liver.
At the vet, she wasn't vomiting much at all, but once I got her home and fed her 30cc of liquid food, followed by 5 cc of water, she promptly vomited it all up. I gaver her another 20cc after that. Two hours later, I gave her another 30 cc....and...well she vomited up her feeding tube shortly thereafter. She vomited up so much, that she must have had most of that 20cc from 2 hrs earlier in her belly still. What a nightmare. I guess we go back to the vet tomorrow to get another tube put in....sigh. The vet said we can try metachlopromide (or however its spelled) if she vomits alot, so I suppose that will be the next thing we have to try. We really need a break here. Her only chance is to get healthy enough just from feeding and giving the doxycycline so that we can hopefully do a biopsy. Cassandra ----- Original Message ----- From: C & J To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:20 PM Subject: Update on Kisa Well, after going to the vet today, it's not looking good for Kisa. She has elevated bilirubin in her blood/urine, and elevated number of lymphocytes. Therefore they believe she has a liver disease, possibly lymphosarcoma. The only way they can tell for sure what the problem is with her liver is to do a biopsy which means surgery. They didn't suggest doing this though because of the FeLV and her immune system being compromised. They gave me prednisone and baytril for her, though i'm really not sure how she'll handle keeping those down when she is vomiting so easily. They're hoping the steroid will make her feel a little better and maybe regain some appetite. I've really got to try and get her to eat something, she hasn't eaten since Saturday night now. I don't understand why this is all happening at once. First I watched Tomi get sicker and sicker for nearly 2 months. As soon as he started getting better, Koda got sick with kidney and liver failure, and died. Now, barely a week later Kisa goes from being a super healthy and active cat to death's door. I haven't even had enough time to get used to Koda being gone, now its another crisis situation. This is all after having nothing but healthy, happy, and active cats for 12 years. I used to think how awful it would be if my house burned down while I was away and my 5 cats were inside. What is happening now is almost worse than that since it is so prolonged and i'm beginning to wonder if something I am doing is causing all this (like feeding raw food). I've always kept my cats indoors because I didn't want them to get run over by a car, etc....but they seem to be no safer indoors. Sorry for venting on you all, its just really starting to affect me, both emotionally and financially. Cassandra ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/814 - Release Date: 5/21/2007 2:01 PM
