Thanks, NMR.  Nothing new in the house at all, no new food, cleaners--nothing.
That's what's so puzzling to me.  No houseplants at all as I always tend to
kill them!  But I hadn't thought about cleaning the carpets--that's a great
idea. I can shampoo them, and then order this dust mite powder that you put
on the carpet, let it dry, and then vacuum up.  My teenage son has been on
allergy injections for years and in the begininng we used this dust might
stuff since that's one of his allergens--had completely forgotten about it
and it might help.  Her bed is "anywhere she wants," especially MY bed!   But
there is an old quilt that I have on top of the sewing machine that she loves
to nap on, so I till make a change there.

Thanks bunches for the suggestions!

Matthew, I did have the window open only a few inches the other day, but it
was after this all started and it's up on the second floor. I never open the
windows on ground level because I had a cat growing up that got fleas bad
through the basement screen door!  Anyway,  right now it's so cold outside
most days that everything's usually shut tight.

Armshome, we adopted her from the local humane society about 5 years ago, a
place that fosters the animals.  My son and I were volunteering there at the
time and fell in love with her when she was brought to the stand one Saturday!
This is the first time she's been sick in five years.

Toni, she eats Science Diet Light Hairball control, the hard food.  It's the
only thing I've found that she'll eat and keeps her from hacking up
hair/furballs.  The only other thing I give her is a little tuna and the
liquid out of the tuna can, about once a week., but more often now because
her appetite's down a little.

I'm taking her back to the vet today because I want them to check her again
since she's worse than she was last week when we were there.  And she hates
being shut up in her crate, hates the car ride, hates the vet visit--and it's
raining out!  But I really would feel better taking her in again.

I read somewhere that you can use a infant's bulb thing to help suction stuff
out of a cat's nose (the same thing you use for infants when they have a cold
since they can't blow their noses). Anybody heard about this or done this?

Thanks again  for all the input--I'll let you know what the vet says today.

Pam

Back from the vet.  On our first visit last week, she checked everything--
teeth, gums, ears, eyes, etc, nothing amiss in those areas, other than the
one watery eye, which is no longer a problem.  Today, she said that it is a
URI, that she probably picked up the herpes virus when she was either being
fostered (they had 8 cats there), or prior to that and it was just dormant
until now.  (She's 6 now and we adopted her when she was a a little over 1
year.) She checked everything again and said that yes, now she is congested.
The vet gave Turtle another antibotic injection, changed the antibiotic that
I give her from Amoxi drops to Baytril pills, which I hear are very bitter,
and gave her chlorpheniramine (basically Chlor-Trimiton) antihistimine pills.

I tried the anihistimine earlier this afternoon, and she fought that taste
and  had a little bit of salivating.  I had an idea, though. Bought some of
those Pill Pockets.  I know she won't eat the Pill Pockets with the pill in
it, but I pulled off just a little bit, enough to just cover up the
antihistimine and popped the combo in her mouth as a pill. Just needed enough
to cover the taste of the pill while it was on her tongue before she
swallowed it.  I made it very small--and it worked.  NO salivating or
anything.  I just hope this works tonight with the Baytril.  If not, I did
find this website the sells empty capsules for humans and pets. The dog and
cat ones are flavored either beef or chicken.  The pills could be put in
there.  (These are gelitin capules made for dogs and cats.  They make them
for humans, too.)  The last resort on the Baytril is having to learn how to
give an injection.

Turtle's name.  She had that when we adopted her and we just kept it.  She's
always been shy and is a Torti. But it was funny today at the vet.  When I
checked in, the lady asked the name.  When I said, "Turtle,"  she looked at
me real funny and asked had I been there before.  Angie, the girl that knows
me, popped her head around the corner and said, "It's a cat NAMED Turtle!"
The lady thought I was bringing in a turlte and they had never had turtles in
there before!  

If you're interested and don't know about it, the website for the empty pet
and human capsules is:
http://www.capsuline.com/index.php

Thanks everyone for your support and help!  Turtle sneezes you a "hello"!

Pam