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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[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
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