Well, I think its time to give up trying to force feed Kisa. I think she must be severely anemic now. Her breathing is very rapid, and this morning she was panting for awhile and it sounded very labored. She's in no condition to be shoving food down her throat.
I don't know how long she may last in this state, but it must be quite uncomfortable. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm trying to decide if I should bring her in to the vet to have her put to sleep, or hold out and hope she can pull off a miracle like Tomi did. I called in sick to work today, just so I can be with her..since I don't know how much longer she can do this. Cassandra ----- Original Message ----- From: C & J To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:22 PM Subject: Re: Update on Kisa The metachlopramide doesn't seem to be helping. She had a shot this morning, and vomited mid afternoon. Then I gave her a shot tonight, and fed her 30 mins later...she vomited that up. We actually pulled her tube out, unclogged it, and put it back in. But when she vomited tonight, she vomited it out again, and bit it off. I'm thinking of getting some more tubes from the vet, and just putting them in ourselves. We syringe fed her 30cc along with her pills after that, hopefully she can keep that down for awhile. She seems to keep stuff down if you give it to her after she vomits. The syringe feeding is not a good thing to do with her, she gets so stressed out about it. Her breathing is fairly rapid now, and doing the syringe feeding, her breathing is super fast. I'm thinking we may be fighting a losing battle here. We can't seem to stop the vomiting, and while she's doing that, we can't keep food/water down her. She's going downhill meanwhile. I would like to try to feel less stressed and more positive around her, but it seems so hard. Everytime I look at her lying there so depressed, with her beautiful white fur stained from food/vomit, when she should be racing around the house without a care in the world, I just can't stop the tears. This waiting is definately the hardest part. Cassandra
