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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2005So depressed
Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He peed but nothing else. I'm just so discouraged. I called my best friend and she is out all night. So, I guess I just had to express myself here. Doesn't really help either I guess. It's just something you have to get through I guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It must be a living hell. > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a > half jar of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > people who have family members with illnesses. It must be a living > hell. Awwww... continued purrs for both of you. I wish I could do or say more. {{{{{{{{{{Karen}}}}}}}}} Jill > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar > of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. {{{{{{{{{{Karen}}}}}}}}}} Don't give up, Karen. If Grant is eating and drinking he should be OK for now. Do you have an emergency vet you can use if he seems worse tonight or tomorrow. If you want to talk to someone, send me your phone number and I'll give you a call, or if you don't want to give yours out I can send you mine. Hugs, CatNipped >> Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half > jar [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > CatNipped I would call the vet if it becomes emergency emergency time. I think I really have to give it another day anyway. This kind of thing takes a little time I'm sure, but come Monday I'll be worried on the nutrition front. For sure we won't wait past that. Sorry to hear that. Prayers and purrs that Grant starts feeling better ASAP. Keep observing him and if you're not satisfied with what you see, to the point where you would like to have a vet give him a look, bring him in. If his regular vet hasn't got Sunday hours, they should have an answering service that can page the vet, if needed. (Been there. Done that. I called them, they called the vet, she called me back.) And just in case, make sure you've got the contact info for the nearest emergency vet. Obviously, we all hope you won't need to call them, but better to get the number and address and keep them handy now, when things are calm. Prayers and purrs for YOU, too. Every one of us who's kept vigil for a sick cat can empathize. Donna, Captain, and Stanley > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar > of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. Hang in, Karen. As long as he's not vomiting, stuff is still moving. Be sure he gets enough fluids - and you may have the hair pass soon. hugs, -L. >> Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a > half jar [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > hugs, > -L. He has vomited, but not after he eats. It was at night and his stomach was empty. I don't know. I keep trying. I don't know how much is enough and how much is overloading. He drank water on his own this morning but tonight. I just think it isn't going to happen :( Purrs.  SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar >of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It >must be a living hell. It could be a large chunk of hair is moving through the intestine now and is causing some discomfort. Laxatone and plenty of water will keep it moving. the peristalsis can help to tear a large lump up somewhat. By the time it reaches the colon, he should feel better. And a cat has a much shorter intestine than humans. Move, hairball, move! Hugs, -- CATherine >> Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar >> of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > -- > CATherine Boy do I hope that is it. I will try getting more water down him. Poor cat. It seems like I don't do anything but shove stuff down his throat. > Boy do I hope that is it. I will try getting more water down him. Poor cat. > It seems like I don't do anything but shove stuff down his throat. Aww, purrs for both of you. Just hang in there. And to the hairy poopy: don't hang in there! SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar > of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. Karen we're thinking of you. SignatureMargaret Fine mefine@mindspring.com Hang in there Karen - he'll get rid of it soon. We're all thinking of him and you. You've got lots of purrs headed your way and Grant's ! Susan M Otis and Chester > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half > jar [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. aw, we are still purring and praying for Grant. Hang in there. ::hugs:: Jazz & his mama SignatureIrulan from the stars we come to the stars we return from now until the end of time > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half > jar [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. Purrs coming for this to work itself out. Literally. Regards and Purrs, O J >Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar >of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It >must be a living hell. Again extrapolating from human medicine, has anyone considered a stool softener such as docusate sodium (Colace) and/or a lubricant enema or suppository? > Again extrapolating from human medicine, has anyone considered a stool > softener such as docusate sodium (Colace) and/or a lubricant enema or > suppository? If this doesn't work, it sounded to me like surgery was left. but then again, I'll talk to her tomorrow. So far, he is NOT tossing food back up. I force fed him some just now, because he got sick. He was interested in eating, but just couldn't. He is still keeping it down 10 min. later. I'll try some more in a while. She seemed to think as long as the food wasn't coming back up, things were at least not surgery necessary. We used to have to give one of our dogs Metamucil. Hard to figure the proper dosage for a four pound dog. Jo > Again extrapolating from human medicine, has anyone considered a stool > softener such as docusate sodium (Colace) and/or a lubricant enema or > suppository? > We used to have to give one of our dogs Metamucil. Hard to figure the > proper dosage for a four pound dog. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > softener such as docusate sodium (Colace) and/or a lubricant enema or > > suppository? Remembering a certain experience with the miniature dachshund of my teenage years, Peter. Peter was exceptionally small for that small breed, having been born without testicles. He usually weighted about 4 pounds, or perhaps 5 after a heavy meal. He also had an unfortunate tendency to eat the inedible. One evening, we came home to find him rolling his eyes, looking much like a slot machine just after the handle had been pulled. To put it delicately, he seemed to be developing significant thrust at the canine equivalent of the nozzle of a rocket. Rushing him to TED, I helped with the diagnosis. At first, he seemed to be emitting fat, but it didn't stain as fat under the microscope. He began to calm down and seemed OK, so we took him home. The next day, my mother, searching for a new jar of Vaseline, found it under a couch. Empty. A four pound dog had eaten a full pound of Vaseline. >> We used to have to give one of our dogs Metamucil. Hard to figure >> the proper dosage for a four pound dog. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > under a couch. Empty. A four pound dog had eaten a full pound of > Vaseline. Ah yes, I'm not surprised. He was a hound, and hounds can and will steal and eat almost anything. My hound Trim (RB) was a terrible thief. She learned how to open the fridge, and stole and ate margarine, butter, milk, cheese, bacon, in fact almost everything that was in there. So I learned to foil her by drilling a hole through the worktop on the top and through the top of the fridge door, and dropped a 4 inch nail through it. That stopped her. Then she started to break into the food cupboards. She could eat through tins. I won't even tell you about when she got out a tin of black molasses, carried it from the kitchen to the lounge with the lid off to take it to her bed, ate most of it and vomited it all up on my rose pink plain carpet. Yellow and black. I tried child locks on the food cupboards. Lasted a week before she learnt how to bypass them. Then I had a bright idea. Suitcases latches fitted to the cupboards! That sorted her. Except that I often got home from work and she would have a bitten up wooden spoon in her bed, that had been *near* food. Her crowning glory was when I got home once and found she had my food processor cuddled up with her. She had had to live wild for a while,(I guess she was dumped) but she never stopped being obsessed with food after that. I adopted her when she was 2, kept her until she passed away at 14, and I could *never* trust her near food. I still miss her a lot. She looked like a smaller version of an Irish Wolfhound, but a bit blacker. Tweed > Ah yes, I'm not surprised. He was a hound, and hounds can and > will steal and eat almost anything. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > lot. She looked like a smaller version of an Irish Wolfhound, > but a bit blacker. Wow Tweed. What a resourceful pup! Here I thought I had it bad with the hoolikittens. Ok, yours is much worse! YIKES! Poor lil Trim for having a rough life that made her have to learn those skills. SignatureCheryl >>> We used to have to give one of our dogs Metamucil. Hard to figure >>> the proper dosage for a four pound dog. [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > > Tweed You never had time to get bored with him around. MLB >> We used to have to give one of our dogs Metamucil. Hard to figure the >> proper dosage for a four pound dog. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > under a couch. Empty. A four pound dog had eaten a full pound of > Vaseline. How long did it take to return to normal? When Princess was old and ill (RB16) she kept trying to "go" without success. I took her to the emergency hospital and requested an enema. The doctor felt her abdomen and thought it felt normal. I insisted so he complies. When I went to take her home, he told me it was surprisingly large. She felt much better after that. I assume if the animal has a fever, the stool will get dry and hard> MLB > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half > jar [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. >Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar >of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It >must be a living hell. Purrs continue unabated. Come on, Grant! Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a > half jar of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > people who have family members with illnesses. It must be a living > hell. {{{{{{{{{{{{Karen}}}}}}}}}}} Grant *will* make it. Never underestimate the power of the purr. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. So sorry, Karen -- thinking of you and Grant and sending extra special purrs and purrayers. Christine > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar > of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did > eat a half jar of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with > illnesses. It must be a living hell. Karen, I'm so sorry it isn't better yet. At least there is another option if nature doesn't take its course. Yes, it'll be harder on him, but there's an answer. Purrs from my gang 0 four that it happens soon! SignatureCheryl >> Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did >> eat a half jar of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > him, but there's an answer. Purrs from my gang 0 four that it > happens soon! We are sending huge and rumbly purrs for a massive hairy poo to land in the litter tray soon. (I never thought I'd send a post like this! ;-) T ) Grunt, Grant, grunt. Get in that tray and PUSH HARD right now. BF & Kitty FC. >Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar >of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It >must be a living hell. {{{{{{Karen}}}}}}}} I'm so sorry. I really understand your discouragement. Hang in there, and do the best you can. Are you taking him back into the vet Monday? Purrs that all will be well. Ginger-lyn >> Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar >> of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Ginger-lyn Oh yeah he'll be going in. Unless some miracle happens between now and then. If nothing else, they can give him fluids, which will probablly help and maybe some other nutrition. He's not really worse, but he is not better. I did hear some gurgling in that area as I was petting him a minute ago, but I put him in the box in hopes and he just left it. [[Oh yeah he'll be going in. Unless some miracle happens between now and then. If nothing else, they can give him fluids, which will probablly help and maybe some other nutrition. He's not really worse, but he is not better. I did hear some gurgling in that area as I was petting him a minute ago, but I put him in the box in hopes and he just left it.]] Check to see if he's dehydrated. Gently pinch up a fold of his skin and let go. If it goes back down slowly, instead of quickly, he's dehydrated. At which point I would be surprised if the vet DIDN'T want to administer fluids. Speaking of fluids... ask the vet if it'd be a good idea for you to learn to administer sub-q fluids to Grant. If he needs them between now and the time he passes this darned hairball, maybe it'll be easier on both him and you if he can get the fluids at home, rather than making a trip to the vet for them. We're still purring for you and Grant so that hairball will pass ASAP, and all can go back to normal. Donna, Captain, and Stanley > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half > jar [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. Purrs continuing for Grant and for you. Sam, closely supervised by Misteltoe > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar > of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. It's easy to become discouraged. I think the best thing you can do for yourself and for Grant is hang in there and realize that he might just need some time for this problem to work it's way through. > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar > of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. Purrs are continuing, for both Grant and his worried Meowmie. I know I'd be at my wit's end too. Yowie > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar > of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. I am so sorry, Karen, that Grant isn't feeling better. I can imagine how stressful it must be for you. I wish I had an answer for you but Sam is sending special purrs that things move along quickly. He understands having recently been found to have a narrow pelvis which blocks things up. When he was in the emergency clinic they gave him lactulose to soften his stools. He was there from Saturday night until Monday and when I picked him up Monday morning they told me he hadn't had a bowel movement and I should give him the lactulose every 12 hours until he did. We left the emergency clinic, went by our regular vet and spent about an hour there going over his clinic notes and xrays and getting instructions about inhaled medicines then went home. I released him from the carrier and he ate two bites of food and went straight to the litterbox and let loose. Apparently he just didn't want to use a public litterbox for something so personal (lol). I wish Grant's problems were as easily treated. We'll continue to send purrs that this hairball softens up and exits before Monday morning. Gentle headbutts to you from everyone as well. Julie, Hobbes, Selena, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus Lots of purrs and best wishes for Grant and gentle calming hugs for you, Karen, you are a good and caring meowmie, SignaturePolonca & Soncek > Just really feel discouraged. Grant seems worse today. He did eat a half jar > of turkey baby food at lunch, but tonight he just doesn't want anything. He [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > guess. I sure feel for people who have family members with illnesses. It > must be a living hell. |
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