Brenda and Morris
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Good Morning LLanders!!
Well, I decided that today would be the day that I got back on the FDMB and start posting again. When I stopped last week it was because I was completely demoralized and 95% sure that Morris would have to be PTS. I had several heart to heart talks with him and it seemed as if he was telling me to let go. He wouldn't eat and forcing the medicine into him was making him hate me and hide...and forget about the diarrhea. Anyway, that was my main concern and I just couldn't stand writing and crying about it anymore.
An angel o
on this board (thank you Roni!) helped me to see things in a different light. I fed him his favorite thing...shrimp...and he ate it! flip_cat I stopped forcing him to take the medicine, and he started eating....and hasn't stopped since! He still gets probiotics in his food and the transdermal version of the medicine (which everyone says doesn't work). He's back to being his normal self except for that darn diarrhea but it DOES seem to be getting better and we are seeing the vet for a follow-up visit today. All his urine and fecal tests have come back clear and the vet had said last week that she wanted to give him Depo-Medrol if his diarrhea didn't clear up. I said I would need to clear that with my "group". I got some other suggestions by posting on Health that we can try before going to steroids...I will be asking her to test for cobalamin levels and to give him a B12 shot in the meantime. We'll see how flexible she is about taking requests from the client. haha_smiley
Oh, and about that diabetes thing dancing_cat ...it seems to have taken a back seat during all this but his BGs have not been that bad and his dose is coming back down...currently at skinny .50 and he's running mostly blue, with a few dips into green just to keep me on my toes.
Will report back later after we see the vet this afternon...if you have time, send us some good vet vines!
Good Morning LLanders!!
Well, I decided that today would be the day that I got back on the FDMB and start posting again. When I stopped last week it was because I was completely demoralized and 95% sure that Morris would have to be PTS. I had several heart to heart talks with him and it seemed as if he was telling me to let go. He wouldn't eat and forcing the medicine into him was making him hate me and hide...and forget about the diarrhea. Anyway, that was my main concern and I just couldn't stand writing and crying about it anymore.
An angel o
on this board (thank you Roni!) helped me to see things in a different light. I fed him his favorite thing...shrimp...and he ate it! flip_cat I stopped forcing him to take the medicine, and he started eating....and hasn't stopped since! He still gets probiotics in his food and the transdermal version of the medicine (which everyone says doesn't work). He's back to being his normal self except for that darn diarrhea but it DOES seem to be getting better and we are seeing the vet for a follow-up visit today. All his urine and fecal tests have come back clear and the vet had said last week that she wanted to give him Depo-Medrol if his diarrhea didn't clear up. I said I would need to clear that with my "group". I got some other suggestions by posting on Health that we can try before going to steroids...I will be asking her to test for cobalamin levels and to give him a B12 shot in the meantime. We'll see how flexible she is about taking requests from the client. haha_smiley Oh, and about that diabetes thing dancing_cat ...it seems to have taken a back seat during all this but his BGs have not been that bad and his dose is coming back down...currently at skinny .50 and he's running mostly blue, with a few dips into green just to keep me on my toes.
Will report back later after we see the vet this afternon...if you have time, send us some good vet vines!
Have to look into that! As to the cobalamin blood test she said she didn't recommend it since it often gives false readings indicating that everything is OK when it's not so therefore is a waste of money since giving the B12 even if not needed will not do harm as excess is excreted.
