Metaclopramide should work beautifully. Oh, Lord, vomiting up her
feeding tube, yuck. Poor baby! 35cc seems like a lot of food all at
once but I know she needs a certain amount every day just to stay
even. They said that much? Maybe it was too cold or too warm or too
fast. I've done tube feeding (with a tube down the throat through
the neck) and that was equally awful. It didn't seem to want to go
down into her tummy and would just come right back up and out around
the bandage on her neck. It was a totally awful experience all the
way around.
We'll be praying for your little one tonight and tomorrow.
"Consciousness is Causal
and Physicality is its
Manifestation."
On May 29, 2007, at 10:35 PM, C & J wrote:
I brought Kisa home from the vet today. She's been fully hydrated
and had a nasal feeding tube in place, with the lovely lampshade
around her neck. She is still very lethargic/depressed, but a
little more alert and her eyes look better. We're still no closer
to a proper diagnosis though, because she is too weak to undergo
surgery to obtain a biopsy of her liver.
At the vet, she wasn't vomiting much at all, but once I got her
home and fed her 30cc of liquid food, followed by 5 cc of water,
she promptly vomited it all up. I gaver her another 20cc after that.
Two hours later, I gave her another 30 cc....and...well she vomited
up her feeding tube shortly thereafter. She vomited up so much,
that she must have had most of that 20cc from 2 hrs earlier in her
belly still. What a nightmare.
I guess we go back to the vet tomorrow to get another tube put
in....sigh. The vet said we can try metachlopromide (or however
its spelled) if she vomits alot, so I suppose that will be the next
thing we have to try.
We really need a break here. Her only chance is to get healthy
enough just from feeding and giving the doxycycline so that we can
hopefully do a biopsy.
Cassandra
----- Original Message -----
From: C & J
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:20 PM
Subject: Update on Kisa
Well, after going to the vet today, it's not looking good for Kisa.
She has elevated bilirubin in her blood/urine, and elevated number
of lymphocytes. Therefore they believe she has a liver disease,
possibly lymphosarcoma.
The only way they can tell for sure what the problem is with her
liver is to do a biopsy which means surgery. They didn't suggest
doing this though because of the FeLV and her immune system being
compromised.
They gave me prednisone and baytril for her, though i'm really not
sure how she'll handle keeping those down when she is vomiting so
easily. They're hoping the steroid will make her feel a little
better and maybe regain some appetite.
I've really got to try and get her to eat something, she hasn't
eaten since Saturday night now.
I don't understand why this is all happening at once. First I
watched Tomi get sicker and sicker for nearly 2 months. As soon as
he started getting better, Koda got sick with kidney and liver
failure, and died. Now, barely a week later Kisa goes from being a
super healthy and active cat to death's door. I haven't even had
enough time to get used to Koda being gone, now its another crisis
situation.
This is all after having nothing but healthy, happy, and active
cats for 12 years.
I used to think how awful it would be if my house burned down while
I was away and my 5 cats were inside. What is happening now is
almost worse than that since it is so prolonged and i'm beginning
to wonder if something I am doing is causing all this (like feeding
raw food). I've always kept my cats indoors because I didn't want
them to get run over by a car, etc....but they seem to be no safer
indoors.
Sorry for venting on you all, its just really starting to affect
me, both emotionally and financially.
Cassandra
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