Amber
I haven't posted about this in a while, but Amber, my eldest cat, is not doing well. She's been sick with pancreatitis for some time, and I've been having to feed her by thinning the prescription food from the vet with water, sucking it into a syringe, and squirting it into her mouth a little at a time, plus giving her subcutaneous fluids from a drip bag occasionally when she seems dehydrated.
At first she seemed to be getting a bit better, and would lick and bite the syringe when I was feeding her, and sometimes lap up a little of the food from the bowl, but she stopped doing that several weeks ago, and over the past while has gone from passively accepting the feeding to resisting it a bit to, in the last couple of days, actively fighting it, to the point where she ends up wearing more of the food than she eats. She also seems to have gotten progressively weaker, more lethargic, and more disoriented.
She's gotten dramatically worse in the past day or two - I was supposed to bring her in the vet on Sunday but I was too sick, and had to reschedule for today. Yesterday at several points I considered calling and asking if I could bring her in right away, but held off mainly because I felt like if she was dying, maybe a peaceful death at home would be better for her.
But she has an appointment today at 2, and I'm bringing her in, to try and get an honest assessment of where she's at. I'm pretty sure she will not be coming home today - but whether that's because she's staying in the hospital on IV or something, or not coming home at all, is the question.
At first she seemed to be getting a bit better, and would lick and bite the syringe when I was feeding her, and sometimes lap up a little of the food from the bowl, but she stopped doing that several weeks ago, and over the past while has gone from passively accepting the feeding to resisting it a bit to, in the last couple of days, actively fighting it, to the point where she ends up wearing more of the food than she eats. She also seems to have gotten progressively weaker, more lethargic, and more disoriented.
She's gotten dramatically worse in the past day or two - I was supposed to bring her in the vet on Sunday but I was too sick, and had to reschedule for today. Yesterday at several points I considered calling and asking if I could bring her in right away, but held off mainly because I felt like if she was dying, maybe a peaceful death at home would be better for her.
But she has an appointment today at 2, and I'm bringing her in, to try and get an honest assessment of where she's at. I'm pretty sure she will not be coming home today - but whether that's because she's staying in the hospital on IV or something, or not coming home at all, is the question.