healing thoughts for Lucy and Michelle
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
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Subject: Lucy not feeling well
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:03:13 EDT
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For the past two days, Lucy has had liquid diarrhea, and now she is not
eating at all and is acting less energetic than normal-- not chasing her laser
toy, which she normally runs all around chasing obsessively, only playing with
string a little. She has had IBD since October, and was doing really well
on a raw diet and 1.25 mg of prednisone every 3 days. This came on suddenly
yesterday. Apparently Gray left out a bowl of olive oil that he was
dipping bread in, and when he went to put it away a few hours later noticed that
a lot of it was gone. Lucy does like olive oil-- I gave it to her once when she
was constipated, just a teaspoon full, and she licked it up. So I am
hoping that the way she is feeling right now, and the diarrhea, is just from her
eating too much olive oil, and that it will get better soon. I am not sure
she has every stopped eating before though. I put her back on 10 mg/day of
prednisone, and force-fed her some turkey baby food. She also licked up a
little turkey baby food on her own, but not much. This morning there was
foamy yellow puke with blades of grass in about 4 or 5 spots in the house, so
maybe she started getting nauseous from the oil yesterday afternoon, ate the
grass, threw up during the night, and now has an upset stomach. I am hoping that
is all it is. But she is positive, so I always fear lymphoma.
Salmonella is also a possibility, I guess, since she eats raw turkey, but it is
apparently pretty rare for cats to get that. Gray said he is pretty sure
that a lot of the olive oil was missing, and there is nothing else that could
have happened to it, as Patches can not jump on the counter.
I have a vet appointment scheduled for tomorrow morning. Do you think I
should take her? Do you think that drinking a bunch of oil two days ago could
make her still feel sick two days later and not want to eat? I guess that the
fact that she already had IBD and could not even eat normal cat food without
getting sick might make her respond worse to drinking oil than a normal cat
would. I can not handle losing another cat right now. Not that I can ever
really handle it, I guess.
Any thoughts, advice, prayers, or good energy you can spare would be
appreciated.
Thanks,
Michelle
