toes the cat now has a feeding tube implanted in the back of his neck/head and i'm injecting his food, water and medicines through it every 4 hours until he starts eating and drinking on his own again. while i'm away next week for a few days, t. and toes' previous caretaker (who passed toes on to me 2 years ago) will pick up the duties. i just want him to be better by this point. it's really quite draining to go through this illness with him.
and my new clothes washer still hasn't arrived. they have 3 more hours to make it otherwise there will be hell to pay at the appliance store.
but there is light at the end of this tunnel. i have a spa appointment on tuesday where i'll get an aromatherapy steam and a massage. 2 hours of bliss. thanks go to t. for buying me the spa certificate for christmas. she's a life saver.
then i'm off to monterey to keynote an university IT event (supposedly 1200 students from around mexico will be at the event) and then to l.a. the next day for scale and then back home on monday. hopefully we'll have the kconfig backend and ldb stuff sorted out by then (it's going decently so far) and i can spend the week ensconced in wrapping that up.
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3 comments:
That sucks. I remember when one of my dogs contracted Parvo (a severe and deadly canine illness), and we had to inject liters upon liters of water into her back 2-3 times a day. Its a horrible experience, having to care for your pet in such a way.
Hope your kitty gets well soon.
*sends feline get well soon wishes*
Hey - while you're at SCALE - the L.A. linuxchix are demo-ing Open Source Victoria's LiveLAMP project. If you've got time for a peek perhaps you could let me know how it goes? kattekrab at gmail dot com
I missed a few of your previous posts, so if you said what you cat has, well, I missed it.
This being said, as a cat owner who had a female cat die a few years ago due to Fatty Liver Syndrom (FLS), what you describe sounds familiar. I mean, having to administer food (and liquids) through a feeding tube is one of the treatments to FLS. That's until the liver can clean/rebuild itself.
The other possibility is having your cat's potassium levels dropping to near zero for God knows what reasons. My big male cat got that recently, he stopped eating (don't ask) and had to be fed for a day or two (plus mandatory re-hydration (sp?) via IV). After that, his stomach had been kick-started again, and it was just a matter of keeping a close eye on him for a few days to make sure he ate.
Anyway, I'm curious, so if you could let us know...
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