Recent Content by phoebephan

Thanks, all. Yes, she is on lasix. It's been a fight the last few days trying to get her to swallow the pill! Fluctuating symptoms is a great way to put it.........................It's at a point now where its's good hours vs. bad hours instead of good days vs. bad days.

Thanks for all the info...........Yeah, the pooping/peeing are good, and the grooming she's doing a little (for her - she was a ridiculous overgroomer until last week - very OCDish) and she's eating some and drinking a lot..........Don't know about pain, but like you're saying it's on and off...

10 days later and I'm still confused!.................Yesterday (Sunday), Maggie was hanging in there really good. She kept following me everywhere I went, she was eating quite a bit, not wheezing too often, etc..............Then, I got up today and she was wheezing and definitely struggling to...

Thanks, everyone............I'm a guy and don't have perfume, or any of those other things.............Unfortunately, I don't think it's anything environmental. Nothing has changed in her environment at all...............And, I've heard this type of wheezing before - when my mother had...

Thanks. I probably am going to have to let her go tommorrow. She definitely has a few of those. The head hanging lower is heartbreaking.

I guess my main question at this point is now she seems to have some wheezing going on whenever I'm near her. I have to put my ear near her to hear it....................So, I don't know if it's suffering to breathe that way?

Yeah, I really like him. He was very caring last year when she had a mastectomy (thought she beat the cancer but it seems like it did make it into her lungs a year later)............But, his logic on it not lasting makes no sense to me. Of course, it's not going to last. But, it could buy time!

I only spoke with the vet on the phone yesterday, but it seemed to me he was thinking put her down ASAP. I said the lasix really helped the last few days (when she wasn't wheezing - but now she is). He said Yeah, but that's not going to last................I said I know. I also brought up...

Well, I got the bad news on little Maggie.......She's got cancer in her lungs that is causing the fluid. So, now my question is when to put her down. The lasix seemed to really help for a few days. No wheezing or hacking to try to get the fluid out.............I got an appetite stimulant...

Thanks so much for giving me a way better understanding. It must be pulmonary oedema that he said as the 2nd option of what it could be in addition to the return of cancer. Now I see why he wouldn't have done the draining.

Thanks so much for the kind words! Her name is Maggie - she's super sweet and tiny (6 pounds). She's an indoor only cat (except for the minute or so that she's sneaks outside every few months when I go to get another bag of groceries, etc.) Not long enough to get into anything - and it's been...

My cat had been dry heaving (or so I thought) for a few weeks. Since she throws up or dry heaves pretty frequently, I didn't really think much of it.............I was going to make an appt on Thursday for whatever day they had available, but then Thursday I woke up to her wheezing, so I called...

Thanks for the great info! She's gotten a lot better now with the draining - hopefully, it's because her pain has subsided somewhat............And, thanks for emphasizing that it's important. The instructions they gave me were kind of haphazard and I wasn't sure how important any of it was...

My cat had a mastectomy on Tuesday and the orders are to keep her from jumping and such - the things she normally does constantly. I've seen some links here to pens that some people have used, but then the links keep going to products that are no longer made. Does anybody know of a current...

Thanks, Peanut. I really think I have my answers now. The pain meds and anti inflammatory they gave her last night seem to be working. And, the vet answered my big question - does 4 days matter with this? She said no. (And, she'd make a lot of money by saying yes) She also wanted the...