Wulfgeist
10-23-2013, 01:30 AM
Another month has gone by and Crowley has had ups and downs. I had been giving him kitten formula on the tail end of a not caring to eat phase and ordered some cans of Clinicare. After that he had gained half a pound but then he turn around and lost it again. He's hanging in there around 5 pounds and the last few days have been hungry ones for him. I like the hungry cat better than the having to syringe soft foods cat.
Not much caring for "it is probably the virus" without any option of any sort of testing to rule anything else out, nor the attitude I get from the one girl at the front desk I decided to take him over to the place I took Jasper. The vet we saw today seemed to totally agree with me that his life is worth ruling out other factors before just making that most painful decision. She didn't hesitate at all or try to convince me his quality of life is worse than I believe so I don't think I'm totally off base.
$436 and several hours later..they checked his blood, urine, thyroid (there is a slight problem there but sadly not so lucky to have his condition magically explained and helped with medicine like hyper thyroid), stained his eye to make sure there's no scratch because he's been having an issue with one eye. It could be the other vet was right, it's the virus and there's not much to do but at least give me the choice to make sure everything else is ruled out.
He's very skinny but there's still life left in him, it's amazing to see. He was being very sweet with the vet and tech today (until another tech came in to try to iv him for some sub cu fluids and he turned into his namesake, The King of Hell, and tried to eat the iv tubing)
And he has fleas..I was suspecting as much because I have noticed my other cats scratching. Lovely. Revolution all around, please. I hate the thought of constantly buying that now because I will have to, landlord upstairs has two dogs, four cats and they are all scratching and at least one of the two kittens they brought in from a feral mama has bad earmites. Don't want to get started on that. Likely Crowley will be blamed for their fleas.
So that's pretty much where we are now. Some pain med for the eye, antibiotics, topical steroid for the eye..I'm hoping for some sort of improvement by the time the antibiotics are gone. There's also the option of ultrasound on his belly because she though his intenstines felt thick but she said it could be because he is so thin. He has been having tummy troubles so there might be something else going on there.
I'm just thankful he's still around for the moment and doesn't seem to be too much bothered by everything. He even climbed up onto my worktable and into the window by himself, he hasn't done that in a good while.
Not much caring for "it is probably the virus" without any option of any sort of testing to rule anything else out, nor the attitude I get from the one girl at the front desk I decided to take him over to the place I took Jasper. The vet we saw today seemed to totally agree with me that his life is worth ruling out other factors before just making that most painful decision. She didn't hesitate at all or try to convince me his quality of life is worse than I believe so I don't think I'm totally off base.
$436 and several hours later..they checked his blood, urine, thyroid (there is a slight problem there but sadly not so lucky to have his condition magically explained and helped with medicine like hyper thyroid), stained his eye to make sure there's no scratch because he's been having an issue with one eye. It could be the other vet was right, it's the virus and there's not much to do but at least give me the choice to make sure everything else is ruled out.
He's very skinny but there's still life left in him, it's amazing to see. He was being very sweet with the vet and tech today (until another tech came in to try to iv him for some sub cu fluids and he turned into his namesake, The King of Hell, and tried to eat the iv tubing)
And he has fleas..I was suspecting as much because I have noticed my other cats scratching. Lovely. Revolution all around, please. I hate the thought of constantly buying that now because I will have to, landlord upstairs has two dogs, four cats and they are all scratching and at least one of the two kittens they brought in from a feral mama has bad earmites. Don't want to get started on that. Likely Crowley will be blamed for their fleas.
So that's pretty much where we are now. Some pain med for the eye, antibiotics, topical steroid for the eye..I'm hoping for some sort of improvement by the time the antibiotics are gone. There's also the option of ultrasound on his belly because she though his intenstines felt thick but she said it could be because he is so thin. He has been having tummy troubles so there might be something else going on there.
I'm just thankful he's still around for the moment and doesn't seem to be too much bothered by everything. He even climbed up onto my worktable and into the window by himself, he hasn't done that in a good while.