So, I'm at the crossroads on thinking quality of life at this point.
Friday we put the tree up. Saturday Slinky starts vomiting everywhere multiple times. Eventually it turns to blood mixed with bile. We think OH NO she ate something from the tree. So my husband takes her to emergency vet, in the wee hours Sunday morning, where he does xray, anti-nausea, and subq fluids. Tells us the xray shows accordion that he feels is troublesome. If she doesn't have a bowel movement by Monday call and surgery will need to be performed.
Monday, call our regular vet and tell him the whole story and we are instructed to bring her in. Ultrasound shows nothing. So because of the fact she's not eating or having a bowel movement they want to do exploratory surgery to investigate.
Here's where it gets bad...She had an acute pancreatic attack. Nothing was found in her system. They had to rinse her cavity out with warm saline. The vet said that she had bile in her cavity that was causing excruciating pain. The next day she starts running a fever of 105 so they give her special antibiotics and tell us that if her fever doesn't come down we need to think about end of life.
Also there's narcotic tissue on the pancreas and dark spots that they would like to biopsy. We tell them to go ahead at this point. We're basically in the thick of it now.
She's been home, but she's not eating or drinking anything. She pees but still no bowel movement. We give her meds. My daughter was sitting with her and she ate 1 piece of kibble then turned her head away. She's obviously in pain from vomitting so much and the tube they put down her throat. But she licks her lips like she's hungry but won't eat. So last night we decided we're going to syringe feed her. My husband bought Gerber stage 1 turkey with broth. We've been giving her 6ml every 3 hours and then leaving half a teaspoon in the bowl in case she wants to eat.
Here's her med list: Amoxicillin 2ml every 12hours
Veraflox 1.3ml every 24 hours
Buprenorphine .3 sublingual (ya right) every 12 hours
Gabapentin 100mg capsule 1x a day
Mirataz transdermal 5g 1x a day
I guess what I'm asking is:
1. Is this too much? She has a history of PICA since she was little. We found her at 5 days old screaming her head off in the middle of an open field behind our house. Bottle fed which I've been told can be a cause for PICA.
2. She is very high anxiety and if we can't control anxiety this will keep happening-hence GABA (that I asked for).
3. I have 4 cats total so putting a permanent feeding tube would be hard to keep track of all the time.
4. When do you finally just say enough is enough? We love her to death but again how do you justify everything?
I know this is long but I'm really trying to just voice my concerns because I feel the vet isn't telling us the whole picture and maybe someone will come across this who's been there and can give me some insight. You guys helped me so much with Ghost my seizure cat. He's great now and takes meds like a champ btw! So thinking you guys can help me out here so... Thanks
Friday we put the tree up. Saturday Slinky starts vomiting everywhere multiple times. Eventually it turns to blood mixed with bile. We think OH NO she ate something from the tree. So my husband takes her to emergency vet, in the wee hours Sunday morning, where he does xray, anti-nausea, and subq fluids. Tells us the xray shows accordion that he feels is troublesome. If she doesn't have a bowel movement by Monday call and surgery will need to be performed.
Monday, call our regular vet and tell him the whole story and we are instructed to bring her in. Ultrasound shows nothing. So because of the fact she's not eating or having a bowel movement they want to do exploratory surgery to investigate.
Here's where it gets bad...She had an acute pancreatic attack. Nothing was found in her system. They had to rinse her cavity out with warm saline. The vet said that she had bile in her cavity that was causing excruciating pain. The next day she starts running a fever of 105 so they give her special antibiotics and tell us that if her fever doesn't come down we need to think about end of life.
Also there's narcotic tissue on the pancreas and dark spots that they would like to biopsy. We tell them to go ahead at this point. We're basically in the thick of it now.
She's been home, but she's not eating or drinking anything. She pees but still no bowel movement. We give her meds. My daughter was sitting with her and she ate 1 piece of kibble then turned her head away. She's obviously in pain from vomitting so much and the tube they put down her throat. But she licks her lips like she's hungry but won't eat. So last night we decided we're going to syringe feed her. My husband bought Gerber stage 1 turkey with broth. We've been giving her 6ml every 3 hours and then leaving half a teaspoon in the bowl in case she wants to eat.
Here's her med list: Amoxicillin 2ml every 12hours
Veraflox 1.3ml every 24 hours
Buprenorphine .3 sublingual (ya right) every 12 hours
Gabapentin 100mg capsule 1x a day
Mirataz transdermal 5g 1x a day
I guess what I'm asking is:
1. Is this too much? She has a history of PICA since she was little. We found her at 5 days old screaming her head off in the middle of an open field behind our house. Bottle fed which I've been told can be a cause for PICA.
2. She is very high anxiety and if we can't control anxiety this will keep happening-hence GABA (that I asked for).
3. I have 4 cats total so putting a permanent feeding tube would be hard to keep track of all the time.
4. When do you finally just say enough is enough? We love her to death but again how do you justify everything?
I know this is long but I'm really trying to just voice my concerns because I feel the vet isn't telling us the whole picture and maybe someone will come across this who's been there and can give me some insight. You guys helped me so much with Ghost my seizure cat. He's great now and takes meds like a champ btw! So thinking you guys can help me out here so... Thanks