Hello,
My 14 year old Sweetheart of a guy Lenny has been diagnosed with Liver disease about a month ago. I am loosing it here, along with my wife, as Lenny has been on Fluids for the past 10 days, along with Beytryl, Prednisone and Pepcid. On top of this , he also has Hype Thyroid disease, for which he was given Methimazole. Lenny is impossible to pill, so we found this great pharmacy in AZ that made a transdermal of the Methimazole and the Ciproheptaiden for his apaetite. He seemed like he was getting better last week, and then he started vomiting. First food, then liquid (presumably Bile). So we took him back to the vet who suggested we stop the Transdermal stuff, and stop feeding him wet food (he was eating his dry food ). That was two days ago and we have not seen him eat the dry food, except for a few pieces. He is continually looing for us to feed him wet food, but the vet thinks that may hve caused his vomiting. His brothers Vinnie and Jimi) are depressed and don't know what to do, since Lenny is the Alpha cat and is now either sluggish, not cuddling witht them and hides under the bed sometimes. Honestly, he seems like he still has some life left in him, so I don't think he is ready to go yet. After a somewhat disheartening experience with a prominent "Specialist" vet in San Francisco (who drained my bank account and does not know how to effectively communicate with their clients) I finally found the best vet hospital I have ever been to. So I called today t osee if they had 24 hour care, and they don't. They said I could bring him in and they would hook him up to the Vac machine and give him fluids and meds, but nobody will be there to monitor him.
I am severly depressed, my wife is feeling the same way and we just don't know what to do. I'm just wondering if I should be looking for some alternative therapy for him, as he seems to still have some life left in him. Before this problem, the only other problem he had was slight case of Pancreatitis in December. Otherwise he has been a fat, happy, very talkative, dear cat sincve we adopted him at age 6 at the North Beach festival. I am willing to spend more on him(i'm already close to broke), but I have to figure out what's best for him. Do I take him to the regular vet and leave him unsuprovised overnight - or do I just try to work out a payment plan with another emergency hospital in San Mateo and leave him there for a few days?. Please email me any suggestions and post here as well. Thank You