dd & savannah
Member Since 2010
Hi all,
Many thanks to the lot of you who have helped me with Savannah, she still remains OTJ after almost two years!!! Can you believe it, especially after being on insulin for 4 years??? Sorry I've been absent, I had a baby last June (he's awesome) and went back to work pretty soon after, which is really the cause of my MIA status. It's hard to balance, baby, work, husband, cat, self (pretty much in that order too, actually cat may be tied with hubby-poor guy).
So after a few years of good health it looks like my little Nana (since she's like a grandma now) may have Kidney Disease. Of course, all I have been doing is repeat bloodwork and soon to be dropping off a urine sample. In any case, I was hoping someone from this boaard could point me in the right direction for help/information. She's definitely lost weight, and has had reoccuring bouts of soft stool/diarrhea, no vomitting, behavior is good, but has definitely taken an interest in water (she used to never drink water except for the past few months), peeing seems to have increased too. They put her on an antibiotic for a few days and it seemed to help her diarrhea and her appetite increased so much that she gained 10oz in a little over a week, but now that she's off her antibiotic she seems to be less interested in her food and more interested in my toddler's, which has been typical for the past few months but is not helping with her tummy troubles. She also ate a mouse a few months back too, not sure if she caught some sort of parasite and that could be the cause of all of this. I'm bummed if she does in fact have CRF, it sucks b/c the vet tech was so happy with her increase in weight gain told me that if it were anything serious she would not have been able to gain weight, I think I got my hopes up.
I hope all your kitties are doing well, as well as all of you!
Love,
dd
Many thanks to the lot of you who have helped me with Savannah, she still remains OTJ after almost two years!!! Can you believe it, especially after being on insulin for 4 years??? Sorry I've been absent, I had a baby last June (he's awesome) and went back to work pretty soon after, which is really the cause of my MIA status. It's hard to balance, baby, work, husband, cat, self (pretty much in that order too, actually cat may be tied with hubby-poor guy).
So after a few years of good health it looks like my little Nana (since she's like a grandma now) may have Kidney Disease. Of course, all I have been doing is repeat bloodwork and soon to be dropping off a urine sample. In any case, I was hoping someone from this boaard could point me in the right direction for help/information. She's definitely lost weight, and has had reoccuring bouts of soft stool/diarrhea, no vomitting, behavior is good, but has definitely taken an interest in water (she used to never drink water except for the past few months), peeing seems to have increased too. They put her on an antibiotic for a few days and it seemed to help her diarrhea and her appetite increased so much that she gained 10oz in a little over a week, but now that she's off her antibiotic she seems to be less interested in her food and more interested in my toddler's, which has been typical for the past few months but is not helping with her tummy troubles. She also ate a mouse a few months back too, not sure if she caught some sort of parasite and that could be the cause of all of this. I'm bummed if she does in fact have CRF, it sucks b/c the vet tech was so happy with her increase in weight gain told me that if it were anything serious she would not have been able to gain weight, I think I got my hopes up.
I hope all your kitties are doing well, as well as all of you!
Love,
dd
