missmurphy2010
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Hi all. You will not believe this -- Murphy was sick and losing weight, and she had lost 1.11 # from last Thursday through this past Thursday! Come to find out -- I guess I have good intuition, I told the pet sitter to immediately take Murphy to the vet's office and have both Murphy and Oscar overnighted. Murphy had her senior panel and OMG -- every lab was NORMAL! For the first time, none of her labs were elevated and all was the way they should be. I was so shocked, but it was hard work getting her there.
So, we come to the next issue -- Murphy had a urinalysis which I had suggested to the vet -- she has serious urinary tract infection w/ e-coli! Between the overuse of the ventolin rescue inhaler and the urinary tract infection, it is no wonder she was so sick. And, we heard a gallop in her heart, which would have come from the overuse of the Ventolin and I hope it goes away.
The pet sitter is on my S---- list now. How she could have missed that she had lost 4 pounds is beyond me. There's more to be upset about, but if I write about it, it just fumes me up again. But the one thing I do know is that when Murphy started getting sick and was hiding, she would only come out to eat, and at that, she was eating very little, like maybe not even 1/4 of a can of wet food. The sitter was picking the food up and Murphy was basically going into a catabolic state from starvation. She didn't pee yesterday. Today she had a huge pee, so I'm happy about that. I had to have a good friend from the vet's office come over last night, and b/c I'm wheelchair bound, she and I decided to syringe feed her. She was too sick and apparently nauseated to even eat. The good thing is that Murpy, Oscie and I are home together now. And, I have that motherly instinct that made me tell the sitter to take her into the vet's office to have her checked and boarded, and had I not, she would have been much worse, or even not here.
I'm glad that God is looking over all of us. He is good and looks over the little babies too.
Lisa and Murphy
So, we come to the next issue -- Murphy had a urinalysis which I had suggested to the vet -- she has serious urinary tract infection w/ e-coli! Between the overuse of the ventolin rescue inhaler and the urinary tract infection, it is no wonder she was so sick. And, we heard a gallop in her heart, which would have come from the overuse of the Ventolin and I hope it goes away.
The pet sitter is on my S---- list now. How she could have missed that she had lost 4 pounds is beyond me. There's more to be upset about, but if I write about it, it just fumes me up again. But the one thing I do know is that when Murphy started getting sick and was hiding, she would only come out to eat, and at that, she was eating very little, like maybe not even 1/4 of a can of wet food. The sitter was picking the food up and Murphy was basically going into a catabolic state from starvation. She didn't pee yesterday. Today she had a huge pee, so I'm happy about that. I had to have a good friend from the vet's office come over last night, and b/c I'm wheelchair bound, she and I decided to syringe feed her. She was too sick and apparently nauseated to even eat. The good thing is that Murpy, Oscie and I are home together now. And, I have that motherly instinct that made me tell the sitter to take her into the vet's office to have her checked and boarded, and had I not, she would have been much worse, or even not here.
I'm glad that God is looking over all of us. He is good and looks over the little babies too.
Lisa and Murphy
