I am sorry for the dramatic headline but its true.
I desperately need advice about what to do, how to administer medication and how to keep both of my cats calm while one is having violent seizure attacks and may not live through the week
A copy of my latest blog entry:
Yesterday we had a very bad day. Our beloved Tigger (aka Tiggs), see top picture, has all of a sudden developed what seems to be an inflamation of the brain, lungs and kindneys.
In the morning i realized what seemed to be some sort of hiccups, nothing really dramatic. I decided to take him to the vet anyways, just to be sure. The vet was a very capable doctor and found out that Tigger had a Neurological Problem. He performed a series of tests and managed to provoke a seizure attack. We were shocked seing Tigger violently flipping over, rolling on his back and biting his belly. During the course of the day, the disease worsened and while we spent most of the day at the vet, Tigger had multiple unprovoked attacks.
The Vet ran a whole series of blood and urine tests (see documents below), took X-Rays and Ultrasonic Pictures and tissue samples from the Kidney. Further Bloodwork has been sent off to an external lab.
It turns out that we are looking at multiple possiblities. The vet almost ruled out Cancer, since we could not find any evidence in the tissue samples. The bloodwork and the X-rays showed immanent kidney failure and the x-rays also showed that the lungs were not quite filled with air. During the day Tigger started to weaken more and more and had spastic attacks.
There are multiple possible causes, but evidence is still inconclusive.
Here is a pdf of the Blookwork: tiggs_lab.pdf
Treatment we got:
We have two potent Antibiotics, Steroids and Potassium.
The Antibiotics are meant to cure whatever might have caused the inflammation. Since we don't know whats wrong, this is more or less a shot in the dark with the hope that it may get better. The Steroids are meant to get his Brain activity to normalize somewhat and help his internal organs out. The Potassium should give him some strength, since his potassium levels were low and he developed a problem walking.
All of this happened during the course of one afternoon. In the morning Tigger was seemingly fine, in the afternoon the vet told us that there is a strong possibility for Tigger to die.
When we got home another problem developed. Tina (see lower picture) sensed that something was wrong. After a day of torture at the vet where tigger got poked so many times for tissue samples, restrained and injected multiple times, he came into the room with a bushy tail and his belly on the floor, carefully appoaching Tina. Tina started hissing, became very upset and frightened and ran away. We then locked her up and kept both separated for the night and this morning.
We have not yet dared to put them together again, as Tigger was getting extremely upset as we had to grab him, hold him and inject multiple medications into his mouth. He was growling, hissing and biting.
If you have seen a similar situation or if you are an experienced cat owner, I would like to ask you to conatact me as I am looking for some options and opinions.
Thanks for reading. I am desperate to get help. Tigger was at the vet for 4-5hrs yesterday. The vet stayed longer just for us. He has been through a lot but his condition seems to worsen.
He has become apathic and non responsive.
Andre
I desperately need advice about what to do, how to administer medication and how to keep both of my cats calm while one is having violent seizure attacks and may not live through the week
A copy of my latest blog entry:
Yesterday we had a very bad day. Our beloved Tigger (aka Tiggs), see top picture, has all of a sudden developed what seems to be an inflamation of the brain, lungs and kindneys.
In the morning i realized what seemed to be some sort of hiccups, nothing really dramatic. I decided to take him to the vet anyways, just to be sure. The vet was a very capable doctor and found out that Tigger had a Neurological Problem. He performed a series of tests and managed to provoke a seizure attack. We were shocked seing Tigger violently flipping over, rolling on his back and biting his belly. During the course of the day, the disease worsened and while we spent most of the day at the vet, Tigger had multiple unprovoked attacks.
The Vet ran a whole series of blood and urine tests (see documents below), took X-Rays and Ultrasonic Pictures and tissue samples from the Kidney. Further Bloodwork has been sent off to an external lab.
It turns out that we are looking at multiple possiblities. The vet almost ruled out Cancer, since we could not find any evidence in the tissue samples. The bloodwork and the X-rays showed immanent kidney failure and the x-rays also showed that the lungs were not quite filled with air. During the day Tigger started to weaken more and more and had spastic attacks.
There are multiple possible causes, but evidence is still inconclusive.
Here is a pdf of the Blookwork: tiggs_lab.pdf
Treatment we got:
We have two potent Antibiotics, Steroids and Potassium.
The Antibiotics are meant to cure whatever might have caused the inflammation. Since we don't know whats wrong, this is more or less a shot in the dark with the hope that it may get better. The Steroids are meant to get his Brain activity to normalize somewhat and help his internal organs out. The Potassium should give him some strength, since his potassium levels were low and he developed a problem walking.
All of this happened during the course of one afternoon. In the morning Tigger was seemingly fine, in the afternoon the vet told us that there is a strong possibility for Tigger to die.
When we got home another problem developed. Tina (see lower picture) sensed that something was wrong. After a day of torture at the vet where tigger got poked so many times for tissue samples, restrained and injected multiple times, he came into the room with a bushy tail and his belly on the floor, carefully appoaching Tina. Tina started hissing, became very upset and frightened and ran away. We then locked her up and kept both separated for the night and this morning.
We have not yet dared to put them together again, as Tigger was getting extremely upset as we had to grab him, hold him and inject multiple medications into his mouth. He was growling, hissing and biting.
If you have seen a similar situation or if you are an experienced cat owner, I would like to ask you to conatact me as I am looking for some options and opinions.
Thanks for reading. I am desperate to get help. Tigger was at the vet for 4-5hrs yesterday. The vet stayed longer just for us. He has been through a lot but his condition seems to worsen.
He has become apathic and non responsive.
Andre