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i have been caring for one of my outdoor kitties. I trapped her about a month and a half ago when I noticed her eye was swollen and bulging out. Her history is she showed up ear tipped and began eating with the other kitties I care for outside. She has had a chronic mucus drooling in her mouth and nose and weepy eyes for a long time. I took her to DVM who said her eye was severely damaged and she would need enucleation. They believed it was from a herpes infection. She got the enucleation about a week and a half ago at another DVM.
She did very well and she has been on the following medication since she has been inside. Antibiotic currently orbax once a day, antiviral famcyclovir once a day for nearly a month now, appetite stimulant elura to help her take medication and food, lysine in her food she was getting outside as well, every day since she showed up, gabapentin for pain since she has been inside with increased dose since the surgery.
She’s not touchable and I don’t know if she’s going to be tamable or not yet. She has been very scared and hissing / growling on and off at times since being inside, but she has started coming over to eat some treats and her food etc., and she purrs but I’m not sure if it’s because she’s happy to be fed, happy to see me or she’s trying to make herself feel better. I spend some time with her later on and come in 2-3 three times a day to see how she’s doing, take care of her and I also watch her with a remote camera.
When I came in tonight I was kind of alarmed because her other eye was closed and she was breathing loudly with large thick mucus coming from her mouth. She did eat part of the food that I put out for her and then went back to sleep in the litter box and she seems comfortable now- she seems to like to spend a lot of time in the litter box even if she has pooped in there and I often have trouble getting her out of there to clean it etc. It sounds like she’s snoring now.
The whole mucus and congestion thing has been going on for a long long time. I’m wondering if this could also be anything to do with having the enucleation, and it has maybe congested her more? I also wonder if we can add in a decongestant or if there is something else I can do to make her more comfortable. I wonder if there’s something else going on besides the herpes virus and the eye etc.
When she was first examined at the first dvm, he did not mention anything else being wrong and he said the mucus was moderate but to me it seems really bad and I thought that since she showed up and she started having that problem. The odd thing is after the surgery and being continued on all of the medication she had days where she seemed a lot better and then all of a sudden it gets worse again which is pretty much what was happening outside too. I don’t understand why after being inside all this time and on all of these medications she is not improving more. Bloodwork initially showed she had a high wbc but everything else was normal and the 2nd dvm said her blood work was good before the surgery.
She is at the tail end of all of the medications, maybe two or three more days of the antibiotic and the antiviral, she was also wormed with Panacur for the past eight days. Her stool tested positive for lungworm. And I’m wondering if treating the lung worm is making the symptoms worse and if some of the breathing and the mucus could be caused by the worms as well? She also had rabies and the 3 vac initially and her first felv shot when she had the surgery. She is negative for fiv/ felv. She goes back to have the stitches removed next week.
i have been caring for one of my outdoor kitties. I trapped her about a month and a half ago when I noticed her eye was swollen and bulging out. Her history is she showed up ear tipped and began eating with the other kitties I care for outside. She has had a chronic mucus drooling in her mouth and nose and weepy eyes for a long time. I took her to DVM who said her eye was severely damaged and she would need enucleation. They believed it was from a herpes infection. She got the enucleation about a week and a half ago at another DVM.
She did very well and she has been on the following medication since she has been inside. Antibiotic currently orbax once a day, antiviral famcyclovir once a day for nearly a month now, appetite stimulant elura to help her take medication and food, lysine in her food she was getting outside as well, every day since she showed up, gabapentin for pain since she has been inside with increased dose since the surgery.
She’s not touchable and I don’t know if she’s going to be tamable or not yet. She has been very scared and hissing / growling on and off at times since being inside, but she has started coming over to eat some treats and her food etc., and she purrs but I’m not sure if it’s because she’s happy to be fed, happy to see me or she’s trying to make herself feel better. I spend some time with her later on and come in 2-3 three times a day to see how she’s doing, take care of her and I also watch her with a remote camera.
When I came in tonight I was kind of alarmed because her other eye was closed and she was breathing loudly with large thick mucus coming from her mouth. She did eat part of the food that I put out for her and then went back to sleep in the litter box and she seems comfortable now- she seems to like to spend a lot of time in the litter box even if she has pooped in there and I often have trouble getting her out of there to clean it etc. It sounds like she’s snoring now.
The whole mucus and congestion thing has been going on for a long long time. I’m wondering if this could also be anything to do with having the enucleation, and it has maybe congested her more? I also wonder if we can add in a decongestant or if there is something else I can do to make her more comfortable. I wonder if there’s something else going on besides the herpes virus and the eye etc.
When she was first examined at the first dvm, he did not mention anything else being wrong and he said the mucus was moderate but to me it seems really bad and I thought that since she showed up and she started having that problem. The odd thing is after the surgery and being continued on all of the medication she had days where she seemed a lot better and then all of a sudden it gets worse again which is pretty much what was happening outside too. I don’t understand why after being inside all this time and on all of these medications she is not improving more. Bloodwork initially showed she had a high wbc but everything else was normal and the 2nd dvm said her blood work was good before the surgery.
She is at the tail end of all of the medications, maybe two or three more days of the antibiotic and the antiviral, she was also wormed with Panacur for the past eight days. Her stool tested positive for lungworm. And I’m wondering if treating the lung worm is making the symptoms worse and if some of the breathing and the mucus could be caused by the worms as well? She also had rabies and the 3 vac initially and her first felv shot when she had the surgery. She is negative for fiv/ felv. She goes back to have the stitches removed next week.
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