ToddyTiger
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To start with.. Todd (17 years old) has been doing pretty well for the last 6 months, all things considered. He's still losing weight due to the CRF, but he has been eating, drinking, peeing and acting pretty darn good!
However, the last few days he was looking yucky, and this morning he didn't want to eat. We had an appointment set up for Friday, so he could get blood work and all that fun stuff done, but I bumped it up to today, since he wouldn't eat.
They kept him for the day and did all the blood work (won't be back until tomorrow in the am) and they gave him some IV fluids, because he seemed dehydrated. They also gave him something for his appetite (don't recall the name) and sadly.. they gave him Convenia. This was our regular vet office, but not our regular vet.. so they didn't know that I don't like Todd receiving Convenia.. I've heard bad things about it. They said he was fine all day, mostly slept and they force fed him a couple of times.
I picked him up at 7:20pm and we got home by 7:30pm.. I let him out of his carrier and he went pee in his box, drank some water and went to look in his empty food dish. So I thought oh, I bet he's hungry. So I went off to the kitchen to get him food.. I was gone not even 3 minutes. I open the door to my office (where he has been staying) and his head is twitching, then he circles 2 to 3 times to the right, like he's chasing his tail, then he just flopped over and started having a seizure. It lasted less than a minute, but it felt like forever. I know not to touch an animal when they are having a seizure, so I waited until it passed.. he went stiff as a board and then tried to hop up, but his back legs just didn't want to work. I got him in his carrier, ran out the door and took off for the ER vet. By the way, he has NEVER had a seizure before... and this happened within 20 minutes of getting home from our vet.
They ran a blood panel on him at the E-vet. His kidney values are still high, but are lower than they were 6 months ago (YAY), however, he is VERY anemic. 13 was the number they gave me.. they recommended a blood transfusion, a bunch of medications for anemia, MRI, X-Ray, 3 days in the ER, more IV fluids and some other little things.. We were there for almost 5 hours. Oh, and his blood pressure was 100. We did not do any of that.. I want to talk to our regular vet tomorrow morning and see what the options are.. What needs to be done, we will do.. but I think the ER vet was going overboard and we didn't have the full picture, nor did we have $4,000. The doctor had NO idea why he had a seizure.. she said it could be anything from a brain tumor, a mini stroke, or.. no reason at all. She said he may have more, or he may never have one again. We don't know... I have a pretty darn good idea of what may have caused it though. :/ I wish I had known that was going to be given to him. We ended up coming home (it's been about 30 minutes now) and Todd is resting in his little heated bed until his AM vet appointment. They sent me home with some valium to give rectally if he has another seizure. I have hope that it was a one time only thing...
Anyway.. Does anyone have any recommendations for dealing with that bad of anemia?.. or even seizures (in case he has more).. I'm so worried that I feel like I should be up all night watching him. But I also need to sleep at some point.
I will post his bloodwork in the morning, once we have it back.
-Sarah
However, the last few days he was looking yucky, and this morning he didn't want to eat. We had an appointment set up for Friday, so he could get blood work and all that fun stuff done, but I bumped it up to today, since he wouldn't eat.
They kept him for the day and did all the blood work (won't be back until tomorrow in the am) and they gave him some IV fluids, because he seemed dehydrated. They also gave him something for his appetite (don't recall the name) and sadly.. they gave him Convenia. This was our regular vet office, but not our regular vet.. so they didn't know that I don't like Todd receiving Convenia.. I've heard bad things about it. They said he was fine all day, mostly slept and they force fed him a couple of times.
I picked him up at 7:20pm and we got home by 7:30pm.. I let him out of his carrier and he went pee in his box, drank some water and went to look in his empty food dish. So I thought oh, I bet he's hungry. So I went off to the kitchen to get him food.. I was gone not even 3 minutes. I open the door to my office (where he has been staying) and his head is twitching, then he circles 2 to 3 times to the right, like he's chasing his tail, then he just flopped over and started having a seizure. It lasted less than a minute, but it felt like forever. I know not to touch an animal when they are having a seizure, so I waited until it passed.. he went stiff as a board and then tried to hop up, but his back legs just didn't want to work. I got him in his carrier, ran out the door and took off for the ER vet. By the way, he has NEVER had a seizure before... and this happened within 20 minutes of getting home from our vet.
They ran a blood panel on him at the E-vet. His kidney values are still high, but are lower than they were 6 months ago (YAY), however, he is VERY anemic. 13 was the number they gave me.. they recommended a blood transfusion, a bunch of medications for anemia, MRI, X-Ray, 3 days in the ER, more IV fluids and some other little things.. We were there for almost 5 hours. Oh, and his blood pressure was 100. We did not do any of that.. I want to talk to our regular vet tomorrow morning and see what the options are.. What needs to be done, we will do.. but I think the ER vet was going overboard and we didn't have the full picture, nor did we have $4,000. The doctor had NO idea why he had a seizure.. she said it could be anything from a brain tumor, a mini stroke, or.. no reason at all. She said he may have more, or he may never have one again. We don't know... I have a pretty darn good idea of what may have caused it though. :/ I wish I had known that was going to be given to him. We ended up coming home (it's been about 30 minutes now) and Todd is resting in his little heated bed until his AM vet appointment. They sent me home with some valium to give rectally if he has another seizure. I have hope that it was a one time only thing...
Anyway.. Does anyone have any recommendations for dealing with that bad of anemia?.. or even seizures (in case he has more).. I'm so worried that I feel like I should be up all night watching him. But I also need to sleep at some point.
I will post his bloodwork in the morning, once we have it back.
-Sarah
we did that for years. (she was a strange cat would ONLY eat raw turkey meat) BUT she lived to an old, old age, only the last part seizure free. So have hope, it may be nothing .... if it is something you will be able to deal with it. My healing vibes I'm sending your way.
