Day Fourteen Milky Wave
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tripperfunsterUgh. Milky Wave is not doing well.
He's been doing great for almost two years. Seizure free and pretty much weaned off meds, fat, happy and playful. Then, he had another seizure. A pretty good one too. Not a big deal, he'd had tons when we first got him, but this one really changed him. I put him back on his meds, of course, and he had a couple more before they had a chance to build up in his system, but ever since then, he's just gone downhill. He'd stopped eating much, and became much more lethargic.
I had him to the vet, where she did an ass-load of blood tests. Everything came up absolutely normal. She actually said she'd never had a cat be SO average in that many tests. The only thing off was that one of his liver enzymes was slightly elevated. Possibly from the meds. So we changed his medication (from $20 every three months to $135!!) And, of course, he's not tolerating them at all. He stopped eating completely, and is vomiting 3 to 4 times per day. Just bile, as he's got no food in him.
We stopped the meds (on the vet's rec) and I'm going to give him some sub Q fluids tonight. We've got another appointment on Monday, where we'll probably get an x-ray, but she doesn't think we'll find anything. She thinks it's his brain. Not cancer, but just .. .yeah, fucked up cat-brain, which isn't beyond reasonable, with the seizures and such. If there's 'nothing' else wrong with him, we'll try an appetite enhancer and see if that helps.
Thoughts and prayers for the little guy would be much appreciated. He's used up MANY of his nine lives, let's hope he's got a couple left.
He's been doing great for almost two years. Seizure free and pretty much weaned off meds, fat, happy and playful. Then, he had another seizure. A pretty good one too. Not a big deal, he'd had tons when we first got him, but this one really changed him. I put him back on his meds, of course, and he had a couple more before they had a chance to build up in his system, but ever since then, he's just gone downhill. He'd stopped eating much, and became much more lethargic.
I had him to the vet, where she did an ass-load of blood tests. Everything came up absolutely normal. She actually said she'd never had a cat be SO average in that many tests. The only thing off was that one of his liver enzymes was slightly elevated. Possibly from the meds. So we changed his medication (from $20 every three months to $135!!) And, of course, he's not tolerating them at all. He stopped eating completely, and is vomiting 3 to 4 times per day. Just bile, as he's got no food in him.
We stopped the meds (on the vet's rec) and I'm going to give him some sub Q fluids tonight. We've got another appointment on Monday, where we'll probably get an x-ray, but she doesn't think we'll find anything. She thinks it's his brain. Not cancer, but just .. .yeah, fucked up cat-brain, which isn't beyond reasonable, with the seizures and such. If there's 'nothing' else wrong with him, we'll try an appetite enhancer and see if that helps.
Thoughts and prayers for the little guy would be much appreciated. He's used up MANY of his nine lives, let's hope he's got a couple left.
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Date: 2012-04-30 02:50 pm (UTC)I hope we can get through this problem.