Sandy and Black Kitty
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Hello FDMB Peeps!
Our ~ 9yr old female civie Allie is sick. She is indoor/outdoor although she does not go out as often as in her younger days. She was last out on Wednesday. Thursday morning I found her appearing "off" - she was not doing her usual breakfast "feed me" dance and showed no interest in eating her breakfast. I then discovered she had barfed up her entire Wednesday evening meal (thankfuly in the basement). She did not eat or drink all day Wednesday or Thursday. The only litterbox action was 1 pee. I called her regular vet and they could not see her and advised to go to the emergency clinic, which DBF did. The vet that admitted her said she was dehydrated and that they would run bloodwork and give her sub-q fluids. They called 2 hours later (a shift change had taken place) and told us to come to the clinic, we thought to pick her up.
DBF arrived to find they had not yet given her fluids, which really pi$$ed us off. We asked them to hydrate her and told them we would bring her home and take care of her rather than leave her there. Although the Dr. said she did not have a diagnosis, the discharge papers state "Anemia, azotemia". They gave her 75mls LRS subq, 4mg Cerenia SQ and 8mg prednisone IM. Her CBC revealed low RBC,HTC, HGB, WBC, NEU, PLT and AMYL. BUN and GLU (297 = stress?) are high and ALT is off the charts high. PCU/TS= 20/6.5.
Thr Dr. suspects possible hemobart (test result is pending) or that her body is attacking/destroying her red blood cells. She advised not to give her food or water for 8 hours oor so and then see if she will eat. If she will eat and keep it down for 2 hrs we are to give her 1/2 5mg prednisone every 12 hours and 0.4mls doxycycline once every 24hrs for 3 weeks. The Dr. also wants her PCV/TS rechecked today.
I have an appointment for Allie at the clinic I take BK to today at 5pm. I want another opinion. I don't like the ER Dr. who treated Allie last night - a couple years ago, when BK had his first DKA episode, I took him there and she was on duty. The first thing out of her smart mouth at that time was "You know trying to treat an FIV+ cat with diabetes is an uphill battle"...
like I should not have bothered...and I am looking at my happy healthy handsome 7 mos.OTJ play play crazy boy right now!
Anyways, I last checked on Allie a couple hohurs ago and she had drank quite a bit of water. I thought that was good and offered her a small sliver of roasted chicken breast (which she loves) but she sniffed it and gagged. I'm goiong to check on her now and see if she might like a little baby food. (I am at TBP.)
Any input would be greatly appreciated. I want to go to the 5pm appointment as prepared as possible and make sure we are looking for the righit things here.
Thanks in advance!
Our ~ 9yr old female civie Allie is sick. She is indoor/outdoor although she does not go out as often as in her younger days. She was last out on Wednesday. Thursday morning I found her appearing "off" - she was not doing her usual breakfast "feed me" dance and showed no interest in eating her breakfast. I then discovered she had barfed up her entire Wednesday evening meal (thankfuly in the basement). She did not eat or drink all day Wednesday or Thursday. The only litterbox action was 1 pee. I called her regular vet and they could not see her and advised to go to the emergency clinic, which DBF did. The vet that admitted her said she was dehydrated and that they would run bloodwork and give her sub-q fluids. They called 2 hours later (a shift change had taken place) and told us to come to the clinic, we thought to pick her up.
DBF arrived to find they had not yet given her fluids, which really pi$$ed us off. We asked them to hydrate her and told them we would bring her home and take care of her rather than leave her there. Although the Dr. said she did not have a diagnosis, the discharge papers state "Anemia, azotemia". They gave her 75mls LRS subq, 4mg Cerenia SQ and 8mg prednisone IM. Her CBC revealed low RBC,HTC, HGB, WBC, NEU, PLT and AMYL. BUN and GLU (297 = stress?) are high and ALT is off the charts high. PCU/TS= 20/6.5.
Thr Dr. suspects possible hemobart (test result is pending) or that her body is attacking/destroying her red blood cells. She advised not to give her food or water for 8 hours oor so and then see if she will eat. If she will eat and keep it down for 2 hrs we are to give her 1/2 5mg prednisone every 12 hours and 0.4mls doxycycline once every 24hrs for 3 weeks. The Dr. also wants her PCV/TS rechecked today.
I have an appointment for Allie at the clinic I take BK to today at 5pm. I want another opinion. I don't like the ER Dr. who treated Allie last night - a couple years ago, when BK had his first DKA episode, I took him there and she was on duty. The first thing out of her smart mouth at that time was "You know trying to treat an FIV+ cat with diabetes is an uphill battle"...
like I should not have bothered...and I am looking at my happy healthy handsome 7 mos.OTJ play play crazy boy right now!
Anyways, I last checked on Allie a couple hohurs ago and she had drank quite a bit of water. I thought that was good and offered her a small sliver of roasted chicken breast (which she loves) but she sniffed it and gagged. I'm goiong to check on her now and see if she might like a little baby food. (I am at TBP.)
Any input would be greatly appreciated. I want to go to the 5pm appointment as prepared as possible and make sure we are looking for the righit things here.
Thanks in advance!
