We have been so stressed over Spinnaker and taking care of all the preliminaries for her ultrasound by the specialist on Monday that I haven't even yet listened to the Obamas' speeches. But I plan to do so tomorrow. We had to give her a subcutaneous fluids treatment last night ... which involved poking her with a big needle and that was hard to make ourselves do. She purred afterward, but we were exhausted! Tonight we went out to eat at the restaurant where VT*Grand works and that was a little bit of goodness, for balance. VT*Grand is working, taking three Summer classes (doing 4 years of college in 3 years so she can get her Masters after that, AND she is training as an EMT. So proud of her!!
So, we just gave poor Spinnaker another antibiotic dose. She hates it like it's poison. This is her second round of the antibiotic because the germ wasn't fully quelled by the first. She has two more days (four doses) of it to go. Only....during this past week the vet cultured the germ and discovered it's E-coli! So it's possible even this stronger dose on the antibiotic won't be the charm. If that's the case, she'll have to have a third round of med, this time for 10 days rather than "just" 7, and one that will make her tummy hurt into the bargain. We hate this part of pet ownership and want to make her experiences of treatments as gentle as we can. Poor Spinnaker...when I was squirting the med into her mouth this time she reached out with her pins (a natural response) and one of them embedded into a vein on my hand. That made the event interesting! But we both came through it all right.
There is a chance that on Monday the ultrasound will tell us she likely has cancer. But it's also possible that we'll hear there is no tumor and "all" we are dealing with is early stage kidney disease. We are NOT willing to put this cat through heroics. She has shown us that this routine is not how she wants to spend the end of her life. We feel it's only fair to make this harder on us than on her.
We have been so stressed over Spinnaker and taking care of all the preliminaries for her ultrasound by the specialist on Monday that I haven't even yet listened to the Obamas' speeches. But I plan to do so tomorrow. We had to give her a subcutaneous fluids treatment last night ... which involved poking her with a big needle and that was hard to make ourselves do. She purred afterward, but we were exhausted! Tonight we went out to eat at the restaurant where VT*Grand works and that was a little bit of goodness, for balance. VT*Grand is working, taking three Summer classes (doing 4 years of college in 3 years so she can get her Masters after that, AND she is training as an EMT. So proud of her!!
ReplyDeleteSo, we just gave poor Spinnaker another antibiotic dose. She hates it like it's poison. This is her second round of the antibiotic because the germ wasn't fully quelled by the first. She has two more days (four doses) of it to go. Only....during this past week the vet cultured the germ and discovered it's E-coli! So it's possible even this stronger dose on the antibiotic won't be the charm. If that's the case, she'll have to have a third round of med, this time for 10 days rather than "just" 7, and one that will make her tummy hurt into the bargain. We hate this part of pet ownership and want to make her experiences of treatments as gentle as we can. Poor Spinnaker...when I was squirting the med into her mouth this time she reached out with her pins (a natural response) and one of them embedded into a vein on my hand. That made the event interesting! But we both came through it all right.
DeleteThere is a chance that on Monday the ultrasound will tell us she likely has cancer. But it's also possible that we'll hear there is no tumor and "all" we are dealing with is early stage kidney disease. We are NOT willing to put this cat through heroics. She has shown us that this routine is not how she wants to spend the end of her life. We feel it's only fair to make this harder on us than on her.