Purrs for her.  CRF is the pits.

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Purrs for Sasha to rally with treatment and come home soon.  Soothing worry
purrs for you.

Any chance the vet would let you bring her home and administer fluids
there? It's not difficult once you've done it a couple times.

Poor Sasha, continuing purrs.

{{{{{hugs}}}}}

I'll keep purring for Sasha to bounce back and be okay.  Visit her as
often as you can.  I know when Brando had to stay in the hospital for
several days, that really helped him a lot (he's a former feral and
was *very* stressed being there alone).  Hang in there.

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Purrs for Sasha. It sucks to leave them. I had to leave Sugar at the vets
this afternoon. SHe has been throwing up since last night and is very
uncomfortable :(   I hate leaving her though. At least there are no barking
dogs.

Poor Sasha. purrs for you both.

Perk-up purrs on the way, and purrs that her levels come back to
normal soon so she can come home. I would think that going home might
be the best medicine, if you maybe you can do fluid treatments at
home.

I know when Rocky (RB) went for his neutering their was concern among
the staff because he wasn't eating, drinking or using the litter box a
day after the surgery. Course, at that time he was still kind of wild,
and had probably never seen a litter box ;-) Anyway, as soon as I got
him home he wanted OUT, but I wanted him IN so I could watch for signs
of complications. He out-stubborned me, and I watched as he hopped
over the chainlink fence into the neighbor's yard, where he
immediately squatted and "used the facilities" under their pecan tree.
Once he finished there he hopped back over the fence, came inside and
ate and drank til he about popped - the whole time telling me about
the horrors of TED and his experiences there.

I don't know if this is of any use for your cat... but in case it is.

Francis is a cat with chronic kidney problems. Over a year aho now, a vet
wanted to euthanise Francis on the grounds Francis's kidney were on the
point of giving up. Blood tests showed, well, the senior vet (the one I
trust, not the fool who wanted to euthanise my cat - the fool vet is another
story) said he didn't understand why Francis was still here... I can't
remember what the blood test levels were but the vet went pale. The vet said
he didn't know how much longer I'd have Francis but we'd see what we could
do with having a go at long-term treatment. I was warned not to get my hopes
up. I think it was right I was told this.

Francis was put onto Fortekor tablets. One a day. These are beta-blockers.
Francis was also put on a special food for cats with kidney problems.
Francis would not willingly eat the stuff, so for a month I blended the food
down, added water to it and syringed food into him on a two-hourly basis
through the day and last thing at night he got a 'good supper' of the stuff
to keep him going. Over this period he put on most of the weight he had
lost. He perked up brilliantly. After a month, I put him on to a normal
'senior cat' food. All my cats have this as they are now all senior cats.
They have free access to dry senior food (currently Iams active maturity), a
small amount of wet food twice a day and free access to water.

It's now over a year since Francis was diagnosed with acute kidney failure.
Francis no longer needs Fortekor every day. Francis is, to all intents &
purposes, fit, well, bright-eyed, alert and *himself* Francis runs, jumps,
climbs trees and chases the wildlife in the garden. He is a happy cat.

I know that I could be exceptionally lucky with Francis. It may be that the
treatment Francis has had would not be suitable for your cat, but is it
worth asking your vet about this approach?

While Sasha is at the vet's, this might make her feel less depressed...
Sleep in a t-shirt. Next morning, take the t-shirt to the vet and have it
placed in Sasha's pen. The t-shirt will have your scent all over it and can
bring comfort which can help de-stress her.  Change t-shirt regualrly for
others with your scent on. This worked wonders for one of my cats which had
to stay at a vet's surgery for a week. Each day I'd take a 'new' t-shirt
down that I'd slept in the night before (It was Waffles). Waffles would lie
in her pen on my t-shirt. The vet nurses told me it did calm Waffles as
before I started that, Waffles made sure the vet nurses knew she was not..
err, pleased with them. She calmed a lot with the scent of her own human
with her in a stressful situation.

I hope that things improve for Sasha *soon* I'm thinking of you both.

Best wishes, helen s