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Max is still with us....
He's still interested in things, moving around, and determined to eat things he shouldn't -- in other words, almost normal, although not necessarily wanting to eat more than a bite, so he got his soft A/D a couple of hours ago. Merlyn thinks the New England Boil is just fine, as did Maisie. Max shrugged, but did sniff. I've been giving him five drops of milk thistle and a drop of the Carnivora when I remember to add to the meat mix. He will still eat 3 or 4 bites of Fancy Feast gourmet dry crack for cats. (Always be suspicious of dried food that does NOT give you an amount per pound of cat....) But that's I hope temporary.
I could get in to friends' Kristy and Leslie's vet Friday, so drove down to Bee Caves Road. The staff is very professional and yet friendly -- your bill even tells you the name of the tech. Dr. Asbury told me what my other vet didn't tell me months ago -- that when you "say heading for Renal Failure", that means about 70% of that function is gone. The good news is, a cat or dog can go along for 6 months -- 2 years just fine on 30%. Dr. Broux made it sound a lot scarier. Rates are competitive, and Dr. Angela tried to make it simple for us both.
Since pilling 1/2 a Pepcid is hard, I will give him .02 of liquid Pepcid to make sure no ulcers form (TB thin needles, awesome!). Max's response to it is a hair-crinkle of the lip to show me a fang. I compliment him on his nice teeth, hold the injection site closed for 15-20 deconds, and he's fine. She recommended getting saline on-line, and get the ones with potassium in them . (Right now he gets 1/4 tsp. potassium with food.) Only thing I'm not sure about -- can I re-use the lines and ports, since it's saline, and his fluids never touch the tube?
Whit picked up a couple of the green label Fancy Feast with greens in them -- also kitty crack for some kitties. Merlyn liked it fresh out of the can to lick -- Max, nothing. They no longer like the binder/fat for 9 lives beef in gravy. They used to really get into that one, although they didn't care for the meat.
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sheilagh also likes her vet, Dr. Culp up on 620. I've filed her under services, to have a vet closer.
Thank you for all your help!
Max is currently rotating between the throw rug in the sunbeam, and the hot flax seed & rice sack on the massage table. The best news? I heard Merlyn throwing himself at Maisie's door in the time-honored fashion of cats. Turned out it was Max, not Merlyn!
Max is feeling much better! He wiggles for his subcutaneous fluids, but he's thrown up water once, so he also needs these every day. His coat is silky again. Now he drapes himself over my chest when he wants all my attention.
But I go to go get the big syringes (thank g-d that warming the muscle makes it go in easier!) So they are on their own....
I could get in to friends' Kristy and Leslie's vet Friday, so drove down to Bee Caves Road. The staff is very professional and yet friendly -- your bill even tells you the name of the tech. Dr. Asbury told me what my other vet didn't tell me months ago -- that when you "say heading for Renal Failure", that means about 70% of that function is gone. The good news is, a cat or dog can go along for 6 months -- 2 years just fine on 30%. Dr. Broux made it sound a lot scarier. Rates are competitive, and Dr. Angela tried to make it simple for us both.
Since pilling 1/2 a Pepcid is hard, I will give him .02 of liquid Pepcid to make sure no ulcers form (TB thin needles, awesome!). Max's response to it is a hair-crinkle of the lip to show me a fang. I compliment him on his nice teeth, hold the injection site closed for 15-20 deconds, and he's fine. She recommended getting saline on-line, and get the ones with potassium in them . (Right now he gets 1/4 tsp. potassium with food.) Only thing I'm not sure about -- can I re-use the lines and ports, since it's saline, and his fluids never touch the tube?
Whit picked up a couple of the green label Fancy Feast with greens in them -- also kitty crack for some kitties. Merlyn liked it fresh out of the can to lick -- Max, nothing. They no longer like the binder/fat for 9 lives beef in gravy. They used to really get into that one, although they didn't care for the meat.
sheilagh also likes her vet, Dr. Culp up on 620. I've filed her under services, to have a vet closer.Thank you for all your help!
Max is currently rotating between the throw rug in the sunbeam, and the hot flax seed & rice sack on the massage table. The best news? I heard Merlyn throwing himself at Maisie's door in the time-honored fashion of cats. Turned out it was Max, not Merlyn!
Max is feeling much better! He wiggles for his subcutaneous fluids, but he's thrown up water once, so he also needs these every day. His coat is silky again. Now he drapes himself over my chest when he wants all my attention.
But I go to go get the big syringes (thank g-d that warming the muscle makes it go in easier!) So they are on their own....
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Bad as teenagers or toddlers (note they start with the same letter...)
Let me know when Ru goes in and send the hospital phone number, will you? And the hospital/room #/address? Shall we conspire and have something cool delivered....oh, like a unicorn pinata she can beat to death. Gotta be a lot pent up there. Or dessert, if you know what she can currently have.
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I will send hospital info on sepcor.
She was doing pretty good, they took all her girly bits plus her appendix cuz it squinted at them funny. Biopsy due tomorrow, earliest they will spring her is sunday, and she has to walk n poo for them first. She is using her morphine pump and behaving herself. Doug was there and doing well too. Goit my fingers crossed here.
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So git us phone numbers!
I've never seen a squinty appendix. Hope they took pictures. The color coming out of this woman makes me want to slap her into a macrobiotic clinic as fast as possible.
Toes crossed here and walkin funny --
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She is one of the few people I know that does eat healthy, so this just amazes me.
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That's why all her organs are healthy critters. I'm going to go to Half Price Books this weekend and see if I can find her a good macrobiotic cookbook. Stuff was designed for cancer patients -- how to turn the body more alkaline, thus starving the cancer cells. She will need recipes that are good to her stomach, with chemo.
She's a fibber -- she didn't even tell me anything about the big C, except for one doc who was convinced of it and not thinking about anything else. (Like systemic spider venom or Lyme, for example.) Purple gunk and green gunk....maybe she just needed to purge some things. That happens sometimes. Let's think positive, since negative doesn't get us anywhere --
She has gone through some hard times, and they mark you. Stress can damage you, too. I didn't look under Garrety for her -- I didn't know she took Doug's name! (It's not like he needs it 24/7 or anything...)
Take care of yourself -- I hear you're damaging things, too!
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