Yesterday Lucy seemed on the mend. I had fasted her for about 12 hours, then gave her little bits of cooked turkey every half hour or so in the morning. She ate it the first 3 or 4 times and was in good spirits, no vomiting or diarrhea, so I went to work. Gray was at home. She ate a little more turkey for him, not much, during hte da, and spent over an hour walking around outside. When I called him from work he said she was doing well. When I got home she did not want to eat anything and was a little out of it. Still no vomiting or diarrhea, and it had been over 24 hours. But she had not urinated either. So we gave her more fluids. And I offered her raw turkey with feline futures mixed in, and she ate a little. Then at around 11 pm she had completely liquid diarrhea again, and seems very wasted again now and will not eat again. She still weighs over 8 pounds, but I think it is because she has fluids in her. She is starting to feel bony along her back. She is still sniffling a little bit.
If she were just hving hte diarrhea and not a URI, I would up her pred to 10 or 12 mg/day for a few days, which normally helps. But I am afraid to do it because of the URI. I am calling the vet in the morning to lobby for budesonide again-- does anyone know if that has less chance of making her URI worse than prednisolone?
I am also considering taking her to Red Bank to the internist. But it is a 3 hour round trip ride, and she is very stressed in the car, and if this is a matter of her getting over a URI and after-effects of the abx, it seems like a bad thing to stress her that much. The vet said her blood work a week ago was fine. I did not ask about the corona titer, but will tomorrow.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Michelle
