Tracey&Jones (GA)
Member Since 2016
Yesterday
I am not sure if those are delayed vet stress number this morning or what.
He had a gorgeous poop overnight and ate all his food. If this continues I will drop the metro dose from insane to slightly reasonable.
Vet and I had a long discussion. Basically he is a fairly healthy 14 year old cat that has a very complicated condition - IBD/FD/chronic pancreatitis. His organs are fine. He is not painful outside of the chronic pancreatitis. He is very thin and anemic. Though not anemic enough to do a transfusion. She classified him as being in the grey zone. That he could still rebound or not. She can understand the heartache that goes with caring for this type of patient. She also said too soon is better then too late. She asked how many bad days does he have? When he gets to 70 bad vs 30 good...that is good time to consider quality of life. Even 60/40. Until then she still had hope. She also said yes to coming to the house when I say it is time even though it is against company policy.
So, she wanted to add sulcrate to help coat the stomach and intestines to see if the anemia due to small ulcers from the pred. She also added another med that is to help with acidic stomach and helps increase appy as well. I forget the name. Will look it up when home. We will give this 30 days to see if it helps. If so we may be able to drop the cyptro. A hail Mary.
The other option is chemo but she feels that he doesn't have SCL but if we wanted a endoscope to confirm would mean we would have to take him off the pred. Which means a slow withdrawal process. We both had the same thought...would he survive that to get to the biopsy stage and then would he recover from that?
Thank you for all the vines and well wishes.
I am not sure if those are delayed vet stress number this morning or what.
He had a gorgeous poop overnight and ate all his food. If this continues I will drop the metro dose from insane to slightly reasonable.
Vet and I had a long discussion. Basically he is a fairly healthy 14 year old cat that has a very complicated condition - IBD/FD/chronic pancreatitis. His organs are fine. He is not painful outside of the chronic pancreatitis. He is very thin and anemic. Though not anemic enough to do a transfusion. She classified him as being in the grey zone. That he could still rebound or not. She can understand the heartache that goes with caring for this type of patient. She also said too soon is better then too late. She asked how many bad days does he have? When he gets to 70 bad vs 30 good...that is good time to consider quality of life. Even 60/40. Until then she still had hope. She also said yes to coming to the house when I say it is time even though it is against company policy.
So, she wanted to add sulcrate to help coat the stomach and intestines to see if the anemia due to small ulcers from the pred. She also added another med that is to help with acidic stomach and helps increase appy as well. I forget the name. Will look it up when home. We will give this 30 days to see if it helps. If so we may be able to drop the cyptro. A hail Mary.
The other option is chemo but she feels that he doesn't have SCL but if we wanted a endoscope to confirm would mean we would have to take him off the pred. Which means a slow withdrawal process. We both had the same thought...would he survive that to get to the biopsy stage and then would he recover from that?
Thank you for all the vines and well wishes.
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