Dyana
Member Since 2009
Yesterday's Condo
I'm just going to type fast so forgive me for spelling and gramatical errors.
It was foggy as pea soup outside and they were doing road construction and it was a scary drive both ways to the vet and back.
The receptionist was the nurse and the vet was very nice. J.D. had an xray, and she brought them back and said lets go over the xrays. They did not do that last time. She put up his xrays from 08/04/2014 next to the ones from this morning. She said, "here is the trachea, and you see it here and all looks normal and clear", and then went to the other xray, and said the same thing. She did that for each thing in the xray. I kept waiting for the but, but there were not buts. I told her I kept waiting for the but and she said (I am so bad and quoting verbatim) something like all is good, and they don't get to see that much all good at the ER. She didn't really say what the mouth breathing was caused by, but could have been the way he was standing on my half squatted and purring. She said if it was something bad, he would be breathing hard and his sides would be heaving. His lungs are clear and his heart is good. She said he does not have pneumonia.
I took advantage of being the only one there and asked her lots of questions. She thinks the bald spot on the back of his neck is from his collar. She said I should give him a nutritionally complete diet to help with his RBCs being low. I asked about his blood pressure and she said it was good. She showed me what his spinal arthritis looks like and described it on the xray. She said he does not have fleas. I asked her if I am doing the right thing as far as syringe feeding and what should I look for if he were to aspirate, and she described that he would choke and cough. I asked her if I should try on my weekends just to not syringe feed him and see if he will eat on his own, or will I have to syringe feed him for the rest of his life and she said that with humans that are 98 to 110 they tend to not eat as much and need to be encouraged and must eat a very calorie dense diet. She said that whatever he eats on his own is just a plus and that I should keep feeding him via syringe all his regular calories. So that was the negative.
I just made some syringe food. He got his 1st feeding when we got home at +11.
It's time for the 2nd feeding, test and insulin.
I'm just going to type fast so forgive me for spelling and gramatical errors.
It was foggy as pea soup outside and they were doing road construction and it was a scary drive both ways to the vet and back.
The receptionist was the nurse and the vet was very nice. J.D. had an xray, and she brought them back and said lets go over the xrays. They did not do that last time. She put up his xrays from 08/04/2014 next to the ones from this morning. She said, "here is the trachea, and you see it here and all looks normal and clear", and then went to the other xray, and said the same thing. She did that for each thing in the xray. I kept waiting for the but, but there were not buts. I told her I kept waiting for the but and she said (I am so bad and quoting verbatim) something like all is good, and they don't get to see that much all good at the ER. She didn't really say what the mouth breathing was caused by, but could have been the way he was standing on my half squatted and purring. She said if it was something bad, he would be breathing hard and his sides would be heaving. His lungs are clear and his heart is good. She said he does not have pneumonia.
I took advantage of being the only one there and asked her lots of questions. She thinks the bald spot on the back of his neck is from his collar. She said I should give him a nutritionally complete diet to help with his RBCs being low. I asked about his blood pressure and she said it was good. She showed me what his spinal arthritis looks like and described it on the xray. She said he does not have fleas. I asked her if I am doing the right thing as far as syringe feeding and what should I look for if he were to aspirate, and she described that he would choke and cough. I asked her if I should try on my weekends just to not syringe feed him and see if he will eat on his own, or will I have to syringe feed him for the rest of his life and she said that with humans that are 98 to 110 they tend to not eat as much and need to be encouraged and must eat a very calorie dense diet. She said that whatever he eats on his own is just a plus and that I should keep feeding him via syringe all his regular calories. So that was the negative.
I just made some syringe food. He got his 1st feeding when we got home at +11.
It's time for the 2nd feeding, test and insulin.
