AliceMeowliss (GA)
Member Since 2019
https://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/9-20-alice-yellow-day.235657/
No posts for about a week due to my own illness things. In the past week we have not had help for doing her fluids at the same time I was well enough to do them. Plan is to give maybe 50mL subq tomorrow. She has stopped chewing food. Basically her teeth sound scraping and awful anytime she chews now and I think they just be hurting her. So she is overdue for a dental but still ridiculously sick twelve million other ways. She’s really skinny. She has been borderline on even having the strength and ability to half jump onto the side of the bed and climb up with her front legs the way my CH cats do.
I am syringe feeding Koha beef now. (Their pate is the smoothest to syringe.) She almost will eat tiki venison pate or even the ziwi lamb, the Koha is currently associated with feeling sick, so she doesn’t want that even on her own. She’s very unhappy about syringe feeding.
She’s getting both ondansetron and Cerenia some days. She’s about done with the Clavamox, maybe one dose left in the bottle. Monday or Tuesday night she started peeing blood again and being in distress for a couple hours. Worried the infection is not going to be cleared and how much sicker she could become while we wait for her to be off the antibiotic for a few days so she can have a culture and sensitivity done.
I keep telling myself everything she has is treatable, but all of these problems together, maybe it’s too much. For her, but also for my own skills and abilities to treat her and get her through it, maybe.
When is a good time to resort to things like feeding tubes? Would this just make her miserable? Is it a losing situation here? I’d love after all this diabetes if on her last day I could give her nausea medicine then give her something she loves that she hasn’t had in a long time, like yogurt. (I used to let her lick tiny tiny bits. I don’t feed them human food!) I just feel like she looks so miserable. She shouldn’t have to be miserable. If I can fix it for awhile again maybe it’s worth it for her to survive through this infection plus everything else but if she can’t recover at least halfway....
Anyway ummm
She’s also down to a fat 0.5u from 0.75 due to her decreased appetite. I am not getting very many calories in via syringe feeds, and I suspect she may have bounced a couple of times earlier in the week when I was more medicated and less able to check in on her BGLs. She was still eating some by herself then. I’m not sure how to get a whole can in a day into her this way. I wish she could bite the food. Just eat.
Alright sorry this is not succinct, just trying to catch up. <3
No posts for about a week due to my own illness things. In the past week we have not had help for doing her fluids at the same time I was well enough to do them. Plan is to give maybe 50mL subq tomorrow. She has stopped chewing food. Basically her teeth sound scraping and awful anytime she chews now and I think they just be hurting her. So she is overdue for a dental but still ridiculously sick twelve million other ways. She’s really skinny. She has been borderline on even having the strength and ability to half jump onto the side of the bed and climb up with her front legs the way my CH cats do.
I am syringe feeding Koha beef now. (Their pate is the smoothest to syringe.) She almost will eat tiki venison pate or even the ziwi lamb, the Koha is currently associated with feeling sick, so she doesn’t want that even on her own. She’s very unhappy about syringe feeding.
She’s getting both ondansetron and Cerenia some days. She’s about done with the Clavamox, maybe one dose left in the bottle. Monday or Tuesday night she started peeing blood again and being in distress for a couple hours. Worried the infection is not going to be cleared and how much sicker she could become while we wait for her to be off the antibiotic for a few days so she can have a culture and sensitivity done.
I keep telling myself everything she has is treatable, but all of these problems together, maybe it’s too much. For her, but also for my own skills and abilities to treat her and get her through it, maybe.
When is a good time to resort to things like feeding tubes? Would this just make her miserable? Is it a losing situation here? I’d love after all this diabetes if on her last day I could give her nausea medicine then give her something she loves that she hasn’t had in a long time, like yogurt. (I used to let her lick tiny tiny bits. I don’t feed them human food!) I just feel like she looks so miserable. She shouldn’t have to be miserable. If I can fix it for awhile again maybe it’s worth it for her to survive through this infection plus everything else but if she can’t recover at least halfway....
Anyway ummm
She’s also down to a fat 0.5u from 0.75 due to her decreased appetite. I am not getting very many calories in via syringe feeds, and I suspect she may have bounced a couple of times earlier in the week when I was more medicated and less able to check in on her BGLs. She was still eating some by herself then. I’m not sure how to get a whole can in a day into her this way. I wish she could bite the food. Just eat.
Alright sorry this is not succinct, just trying to catch up. <3
(I was pretty excited to have help available sooner than AM, actually.)
I have not had my head on all the way this week.
