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Thank you so much for all the comments. Mao maybe ate about 120 calories today, which is way less than the absolute acceptable minimum of 200 and it's already 8:30 pm. We thought about trying different combinations or withholding/playing around, introducing additional things like Pepcid AC, but we also feel time is of the essence at this point and that we don't have much room in that aspect. He has been getting his required calorie intake for the last three days since he was being tube fed in the ER, but it doesn't look like we are cutting it here. My husband and I have started discussing the possibility of an e-tube; it's such a difficult decision to make though because I worry on how he will handle the procedure with the anaesthesia - so I have felt all along that it would be a "last card" situation, which we may have come to. I may try to syringe feed him just before bed if to make up for what we can't convince him to eat tonight. I feel there has been some improvement, given he wasn't eating at all at the clinic but he was also doped out of his mind there so who knows.
His breathing has also been fast; he was deemed asthmatic while in the clinic due to that x-ray and the vet warned me his breathing could be a little faster due to stress, asthma, and potential trauma from his stay at the ER clinic but I'm not sure it looks right. It was about 60 breaths/minute when we got home last night, decreasing to about 50 before bed. This morning more like 40-45 so I felt we were heading in the right direction - I did inquire with the clinic this morning and they told me it wasn't unusal to last a bit, and to monitor him for any key signs. He isn't on any inhaler medication right now, just the prednisolone (the idea was deal with the asthma issue once we had him more stabilized in respects to eating and food moving through). Tonight it's been oscillating between 40 or 50 but I am more concerned about the force his abdomen seems to be moving with the breaths - not sure if that is a cause for concern though? He's not exhibiting signs of breathing distress straight out (no panting, open-mouth, wheezing), but I still find it mildly disturbing - even more so if we are considering anaesthesia for the e-tube procedure. Video here:
I think tomorrow we will have to call and make a decision regarding this and it's just so hard to know what to do and whether I am doing the right thing. I just want to have my MaoMao by my side a bit longer and it feels like everything there's a sliver of hope, it just doesn't pan out.
His breathing has also been fast; he was deemed asthmatic while in the clinic due to that x-ray and the vet warned me his breathing could be a little faster due to stress, asthma, and potential trauma from his stay at the ER clinic but I'm not sure it looks right. It was about 60 breaths/minute when we got home last night, decreasing to about 50 before bed. This morning more like 40-45 so I felt we were heading in the right direction - I did inquire with the clinic this morning and they told me it wasn't unusal to last a bit, and to monitor him for any key signs. He isn't on any inhaler medication right now, just the prednisolone (the idea was deal with the asthma issue once we had him more stabilized in respects to eating and food moving through). Tonight it's been oscillating between 40 or 50 but I am more concerned about the force his abdomen seems to be moving with the breaths - not sure if that is a cause for concern though? He's not exhibiting signs of breathing distress straight out (no panting, open-mouth, wheezing), but I still find it mildly disturbing - even more so if we are considering anaesthesia for the e-tube procedure. Video here:
I think tomorrow we will have to call and make a decision regarding this and it's just so hard to know what to do and whether I am doing the right thing. I just want to have my MaoMao by my side a bit longer and it feels like everything there's a sliver of hope, it just doesn't pan out.
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