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Ok, so I got the skinny on why we're doing what we're doing... The first course of meds was metronidazole and denamarin (which is basically a compound of samE and milk thistle), and that was to address the bacterial aspect of the liver problem, which the original vet suspected was some form of...

Yeah, my vet was saying that cats in liver failure or with advanced cancer/lymphoma usually don't respond quite this well to the denamarin, but lymphoma symptoms are potentially helped by pred, so he just wants to be sure. I guess his Alk. Phos. was up near 305, and now it's down below 100, with...

UPDATE: Got Raphael in with my regular vet (THANK GOD!) and he very strongly believes it's triaditis, which will be manageable with medication. The pred and denamarin have helped ENORMOUSLY, however, he suggested trying amoxocillian and/or actigall in the future. Apparently, the X-Ray was...

And honestly, that's what I've heard...that it's nearly impossible for them to really zero in on issues of the liver/pancreas, even with fancy diagnostic testing. I just told the vet to put him on the maximum "blanket" supportive care for those systems and we'd see what happened. I must...

Ok, correction: I went in and got to talk the vet myself today, and looked at the levels myself. He doesn't have HL. He just has elevated enzymes. He's too skinny naturally to be a high risk for HL, and even so, he was basically eating, albeit irregularly, before. He has been given denamarin...

I really, really don't have $5000 to spend. Please don't think I'm a bad person, but we keep a little over $1,500 for vet emergencies, and he's now eaten through $700 of that. I need to spend the rest of the money as wisely as possible, while keeping in mind that I have 2 other cats. This is...

Well, I guess they were already suspecting that? Or something? He ate really well all week, and it looks like he just crashed again in the past few days. I got him to eat 1/3 of a can of crap food tonight, but it's all he's eating. And I tried to give him more just now and he refused. This cat...

Hi all- Recently, Raphael got sick...he dropped a lot of weight, all but stopped eating, was vomitting and was just very, very lethargic. We took him into the vet, had a CBC, urinalysis, fluids, x-rays...the whole shebang. The only thing out of the ordinary were a slightly inflamed pancreas and...

Thanks for the tips. I'm trying to get good at using the pill gun at all by administering tiny treats to my more docile kitty, Gracie. I'm hoping that if I can develop the speed and agility with the thing, I can be quicker with Raphael. Gracie, at the moment, is sort of like '?' Does anyone...

Hello everyone! So, it's been a while since i was last here...since March, according to the thingy on top there. I've been a busy girl, and while I've been away, Raphael thought it would be a fun idea to stop eating, need to be rushed the the emergency vet (from hell) and contract a borderline...

I prefer to think that originality is something that comes from our ideas, the things we're passionate for and how we choose to live our lives and the contributions we make, rather than from what we drive, what we wear, how we do our hair, etc. Personally, I'd rather earn respect from my...

The Jettas have gotten roomier in recent years, too. I LOVVVE VWs. I don't know what about them I'm so in love with, but...I feel so special driving a VW. Plus, it was the first car I bought and paid for myself My dad, who's about your size, LOVES compact cars. It's hilarious because he looks...

I tend to give food to people when I see them. I don't give them money...for a whole slew of reasons I won't get into. I don't judge them either. People gotta eat regardless of their circumstances (and they could be any circumstances) and don't deserve to be denied a basic need because of...

I dunno Bruce...my Jetta is a stubborn little piece of fine German engineering and got me to work (30 mile commute on a really unfriendly strip of interstate) in our 3289438974308970 snowstorms this year! I pride myself on not taking a single day off due to weather this year. You and I rock in...

Ugh, I hate big cars. HATE them. I live in Illinois. Now, to those of you who are not familiar with the ol' Land of Lincoln, we do have another state nickname, which is "The Prairie State". Now. Prairies are flat. Illinois is flat. Like, you-can-see-the-curvature-of-the-earth flat. Not only...