On Saturday evening she started vomiting a lot. We called the emergency vet and they instructed us to reintroduce water in four hours to see how she did with that. At 1:00 am she drank two sips of water and promptly threw up several more times. Patrick and I rushed her to the emergency vet where we spent the next four hours. They took x-rays but did not find anything abnormal. They gave her two medicinal injections and a fluid injection to keep her hydrated. We also left with a prescription we had to squirt in her mouth with a syringe every 8 hours. We left the emergency vet at 5:30 am, with just enough time for Patrick to come home and shower and head straight to work (with absolutely no sleep.) She continued to vomit throughout Sunday so we brought her to our vet first thing Monday morning.
Our vet did some blood work and thankfully the results came back within the normal ranges. They gave her another injection of fluids and her vomiting ceased early Monday morning. We thought we were on the road to recovery. Unfortunately, she continued to show no interest in eating and was extremely lethargic. I called our vet on Tuesday morning who instructed me to bring her in immediately to meet with their ultrasound specialist as she detected a distended colon in her x-rays from the ER vet. I drove her to the vet in a blind panic and we waited while the ultrasound specialist looked very thoroughly over every organ in her little body. I broke down and even Patrick had tears welled up in his eyes. The picture on the screen was so similar to when a pregnant woman has her ultrasound (except there was no baby and cries of joy when you saw the pictures on the screen appear.) Each time she reached a different organ I felt like my legs were going to give out and I just wanted to curl up on the floor.
We found out that she has pancreatitis and striping on her liver. After another injection of fluids and another medicinal injection we were able to take her home, but she may still need to be hospitalized to have a feeding tube inserted if she does not start eating over the next 24 hours. We left the vet’s office with three prescriptions and a fourth that was called into our local Rite Aid store. Patrick had to pick it up and verify that he was Caddy’s “parent or guardian.” We also have a bag of fluids with a pack of needles that we have to inject into her subcutaneously every day. So that is three medicines injected into her mouth via syringe (some multiple times per day), one she is supposed to eat, and 100 ml of fluids we have to stick into her each day. Needless to say in the midst of all of this she still feels terrible so this is an extremely difficult process.Please pray for her to gain an interest in eating again so that she does not have to be hospitalized. Please pray for her pancreas to heal and for her to begin to feel better. Please pray that she will continue to allow us to administer all of her medications that will help her to fight this. And please pray for Patrick and I to have the strength to be the parents that our little girl needs right now. She is hurting and sick and this could be life threatening so please pray that God will grant us a miracle. Caddy already is a little miracle (see my post about the Not So Brave Little Kitten for her story) and now she needs one more. Please pray for God to heal my girl.
2 comments:
Poor baby! We have been thinking about her so much and wish we could give her lots of snuggles! Let us know how she is doing.
Hey this is Patrick update your blog so that we know how Caddy is doing. Hope that she is doing better.
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