I'm worried about
Patches. The little bugger just won't eat enough. He's been sickly
since we got him, with runny eyes every day, but it's been worse in the past
week or so. We took him to the vet Saturday, and he had a fever, so the
vet put him on antibiotics (I don't even remember which one, it's kind of a gray
pill that we give 1/2 per day) and gave us eyedrops and set us up to
syringe-feed him and give fluids as needed. We think the fever is down,
he's somewhat more active than he was a few days ago, and his eyes are looking
better, though still runny. I haven't seen him sneezing, though sometimes
it looks like he's got the same dried gunk in his nose as in his eyes.
We've been syringe-feeding him, which he of course hates, but we can only get
about half a can down him which isn't enough, and he's probably down a good
pound by now. My housemate is on 3rd shift, I work days, so the only time
we can syringe him is at night. We tried KFC, warmed, and he showed an
interest the first time, but not so much the two subsequent times. Tonight
we try baby food. When our Luc got pancreatitis followed by fatty liver
and stopped eating, we had to have an esophageal tube put in, it was so
stressful on us all to syringe him, but that ended up costing us $1200 ($600 of
it for the overnight stay at the vet because he doesn't tolerate anesthesia very
well) which was most of my savings and some of Gail's. Luc is our
special guy and it saved his life and it was worth it, but we simply can't
afford that again.
Patches has
been very good under very bad circumstances. Even when he's fighting to
get away from the syringe, he doesn't use his claws or try to bite.
Multiple times during the feedings he'll look like he's going to barf, but he
has kept it all down. He's a sweet boy and we want him to get through
this. Any suggestions on how to get some good calories into him? I'm
off work tomorrow and we can probably manage 3 syringe sessions for the next
couple days, but I'm not sure that will be enough. He goes back to the vet
Saturday. (Gail has just informed me that
she tried thin-sliced luncheon meat on him this morning, and he ate a whole
slice. She offered him a second slice, but he yacked on it (just a little
bit though) and walked away. Oh, and last night he ate *one* of the treats
he used to climb up our noses to get.)
Diane
R.
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