Glad she’s on the mend, Ann! Prednisone is nasty, bitter-tasting stuff, very difficult to mask. Too bad there aren’t 2.5mg tablets!
Rick > On Oct 5, 2020, at 1:11 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm glad to hear she's doing better. I hope the "forever" for the weekly 1/2 > pills is a long, long time. > > On 10/5/2020 08:08:06, ann sanfedele wrote: >> Now that she is much better and has gained back some weight I feel I can >> share this mini vid I took before I took her to get an Ultra Sound two weeks >> ago. She had to >> do without any food after midnight the night before this was shot and she >> was NOT pleased.. as she let me know here.. >> She had had a concerning pattern of weight loss recently , vet visit a >> couple of months ago indicated some kind of IBD - she got steroids and B >> vitamin shot and >> improved a bit then declined again.. so the Ultra Sound proved necessary.. >> she came home with pills to take 1/2 of twice a day for two weeks then once >> a week "forever" >> It took some creativity to get the pill into her - the solution after some >> experimenting turned out to be burying the tiny thing in a small wad of >> cheddar cheese - actually, English Double Glouster . she gets that into her >> tummy quickly and therefore is spared the bitter taste of the pill (mashing >> up the pill in her food was NOT a good solution >> "fool me once... ") the pills are Prednisolone . 5mg pills cut in half. I >> didn't want to tell people anything aobut her trials until I was able to say >> she is responding nicely >> to the meds and is up to many of her old naughty tricks , is displaying good >> bathroom behaviour and hasn't barfed at all in two weeks. >> so here is the short vid I took early in the morning of Sept 22 before we >> went to the vet.. video verite - took with my darkside little camera - no >> editing. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdOt3PlmZOY >> ann > > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
