RachelG
Member Since 2021
Yesterday
Thank you for all of the support yesterday - it was long and hard day for Fortune (and us,) but Fortune crawled into bed with us and slept in my arms all night which makes it all worth it!
I barely slept because I kept checking to make sure he was breathing. Me and poor DH have some bags under our eyes...I need to figure out how to calm down and not be so on edge. I just keep playing what the IM told me on Saturday that he could go at any time, and I'm a complete mess. Fortune is much more put together than I am right now!
His BG seems to be bouncing a bit - we had given a half dose yesterday cuz he wasn't eating well. But this morning he was at the bottom of the stairs waiting to be fed!
We are figuring out that he is doing much better with smaller, more frequent meals. It's tough to balance wanting him to eat as much as he wants with the new drug he is on to help with GI tract bleeding, sucralfate, which needs to be taken an hour after eating, or two hours before eating, which means he cannot eat for 3 hours.
So hard when he has clearly lost weight from his hospital stay! He didn't eat Wednesday night, and Thursday they kept him fasted til his ultrasound so he went at least 36 hours without food! Thankfully, the anti-nausea meds seem to have kicked in today. (bli ayin hara)
I was able to get him an oncology appt with Red Bank VH for Monday. We aren't going to try the ER again because it was such an ordeal for him yesterday, and I don't want him to have to spend so long in the car/hospital stressed out with no guarantee that he will be seen. Poor baby was drenched in urine from holding it in, and so happy and relieved to be home, and then that evening he was stressed from the syringe feeding attempt. I want him to have as much peace and comfort as possible, and balancing that with getting him treatment urgently.
We do have an oncology appt with Blue Pearl tomorrow - where he was hospitalized Wed-Fri, and I hope to get him started on a rescure drug while we wait for a second opinion. I don't have high hopes since none of the vets or doctors we interacted with since the IM visit last Sunday seem terribly invested. But yes, the priority is to get him on a rescue drug, and maybe some pain meds, possibly adjust his cerenia dose.
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Thank you for all of the support yesterday - it was long and hard day for Fortune (and us,) but Fortune crawled into bed with us and slept in my arms all night which makes it all worth it!
I barely slept because I kept checking to make sure he was breathing. Me and poor DH have some bags under our eyes...I need to figure out how to calm down and not be so on edge. I just keep playing what the IM told me on Saturday that he could go at any time, and I'm a complete mess. Fortune is much more put together than I am right now!
His BG seems to be bouncing a bit - we had given a half dose yesterday cuz he wasn't eating well. But this morning he was at the bottom of the stairs waiting to be fed!
We are figuring out that he is doing much better with smaller, more frequent meals. It's tough to balance wanting him to eat as much as he wants with the new drug he is on to help with GI tract bleeding, sucralfate, which needs to be taken an hour after eating, or two hours before eating, which means he cannot eat for 3 hours.
So hard when he has clearly lost weight from his hospital stay! He didn't eat Wednesday night, and Thursday they kept him fasted til his ultrasound so he went at least 36 hours without food! Thankfully, the anti-nausea meds seem to have kicked in today. (bli ayin hara)
I was able to get him an oncology appt with Red Bank VH for Monday. We aren't going to try the ER again because it was such an ordeal for him yesterday, and I don't want him to have to spend so long in the car/hospital stressed out with no guarantee that he will be seen. Poor baby was drenched in urine from holding it in, and so happy and relieved to be home, and then that evening he was stressed from the syringe feeding attempt. I want him to have as much peace and comfort as possible, and balancing that with getting him treatment urgently.
We do have an oncology appt with Blue Pearl tomorrow - where he was hospitalized Wed-Fri, and I hope to get him started on a rescure drug while we wait for a second opinion. I don't have high hopes since none of the vets or doctors we interacted with since the IM visit last Sunday seem terribly invested. But yes, the priority is to get him on a rescue drug, and maybe some pain meds, possibly adjust his cerenia dose.
@PerfumedCatMom
@Wendy&Neko
@Suzanne Williams
@tiffmaxee
@Diane Tyler's Mom
@Butters & Lyla
. I am going to ask the oncologist tomorrow, and press my GP, too. No one will give me a REASON, it's absurd. I also want to ask about increasing the dose of Cerenia, which I know can go up higher.
He was a bit plumper for most of his life, and it's so painful to see him so skinny. 
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