1/27 Tessie Lou AMPS 293 - Civvie Close Call

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tessielou

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Hi everyone,
Tessie Lou is doing good, staying mostly in yellows, with some blues now. Vet says keep her on 1 unit and talk on Monday.

In the meantime, her little brother, T.J., decided to eat some Asian lilys out of a bouquet DH brought home and had to be rushed to vet Mon. morning. As you probably all know, lillies are deadly for cats, and lethal if not treated within 18 hours of injestion. We thought we had them out of his reach, but he fooled us. Anyway, vet thinks we caught it soon enough, he got charcoal treatment and has been on IV fluids for past two days. He came home last night and vet said blood work shows kidneys A-OK, so far. He's not out of the woods until tomorrow (72 hours from ingestion). I will never have a living plant of any kind in my house again!

Luckily, Tessie Lou is doing real well. Her momma bean, on the other hand, has aged about 10 years in the last two days...
 
Wow what a close call! I'm so glad to hear he's okay!!! hugs to you and T.J (and so cool your DH got you flowers)! I'm going to share this post with my DH also.
 
I used to bring home lilies all the time. They are were my favorite. And I still have a lot of them growing outside in my little garden. I did not know how poisoness they were until a year or so ago. Now, it's only roses, honey, please.
I'm so glad you caught it in time.
 
Thanks everyone, tomorrow can't come soon enough, but I really think he's going to be ok.

If this happens to anyone else, have hydrogen peroxide on hand. The vet had us give him a teaspoon of it to make him vomit, which was good, because up came 4 more lily leaf pieces (after he had already thrown up about 12 pieces!). She said not to let him eat anything and get him straight to the clinic.

They immediately got the charcoal down him (poor little guy, he is mostly white faced, but he looked like he had a 5-day-old black beard, plus his nose and tip of one ear were also black. It was pretty pitiful to see him like that, but amazingly, the vet said they were able to get it down him without sedation of any kind.

I am more and more impressed with this vet. First, she is up on diabetes, and now she did all the right things with T.J. Thank goodness we found her when we did. I shudder to think what our old vet would have done...or not done. Hey, :idea: wouldn't it be cool if there was a website where you could "rate" vets, or just share vet experiences--good or bad? Of course, there would be liability issues with posting names of vets who performed badly, so maybe just a site where the best vets got the recognition they deserve? What does everyone think? Or does such a place already exist?

In any case, Dr. Kris Rutar of American Animal Clinic in Omaha, Nebraska, ROCKS! She saved our precious T.J.'s life, and DH and I are forever grateful to her.
 
Hi Sandy,

Wow, so glad your civie cat TJ is on the mend. What a scary experiance :o . I knew many plants can be a problem, but never realized how bad. Thanks for sharing. We will Keep our paws and fingers firmley crossed for continued improvement to good health for TJ :razz:
 
Sandy...just getting around to condos and saw this....Poor TJ and poor YOU....I would have also been scared to death and it is so great to know he's been doing
well and you have such an awesome vet. One more day and he'll be totally out of the woods. We used to have tons of plants around but I got rid of all of them...now
only have silks. Gracie and Tobey will chew on anything :lol:
 
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