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Post by disalan on Jun 18, 2014 15:20:25 GMT -5
I'm sending AbbieJolie your pretty kitty healing thoughts! It's great that she is eating! She is very lucky to have you taking such good care of her. I'm sure you both mean very much to each other and a bond like that is more than special, it's priceless.
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Post by AbbieJolie on Jun 19, 2014 16:14:10 GMT -5
Thank you for your good wishes, Ladies! They are appreciated.
I have pilled several other cats in my life, but a little Persian type mouth (no cathedral palette) seems more challenging. I think she spit out Tuesday's anti-nausea pill when I wasn't looking, so yesterday and today I burrito wrapped her in a towl, pried that little mouth open, popped the pill toward her throat and waited til I saw a swallow.
She's happy to be interested in eating, and I am much relieved.
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Post by AbbieJolie on Jun 24, 2014 17:26:47 GMT -5
Last Friday I took Abbie to our local Animal Medical Center where she received one of her anti-nausea pills, a B-12 shot, a steroid injection (depo medrol I believe) and a blood draw which told us that she is still anemic but her white blood cell count is up and her numbers look better.
Before I got the anti-nausea pills after Chemotherapy, I was using every tempting morsel I could think of to get AbbieJolie to eat. After a few days on the anti-nausea pills she doesn't need them anymore but I have created a slightly finicky cat (which she never was before). She will try anything I set before her and has refused none of the new flavors, but the two flavors we used to have all the time are getting no love now. Ah well, she is scarfing down various kitty concoctions of chicken, turkey, beef, salmon, tuna, whitefish, carrot, sweet potato and spinach. More brands than we used before with more exotic food names. Her pantry looks very Gourmet, but there is a can of a prescription diet product that is super yummy and nutritious if I am ever worried about her not eating again. It makes me happy to see her work her way through half of a 3oz can just for breakfast. We are on a five meals a day plan. She is not acting like a sick cat at all.
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Post by chelscbvforever on Jun 24, 2014 18:49:53 GMT -5
Its really good to hear she is doing alright, and eating! Kinda cute she is been picky with her food now ;)my cats can be the same way.
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Post by queentakesjack on Jun 25, 2014 10:19:37 GMT -5
It is great she is doing well and her white blood cells are up.
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Post by AbbieJolie on Jul 15, 2014 22:29:24 GMT -5
AbbieJolie's Exploratory Surgery was on May 29. I am pretty sure that if that and subsequent diagnosis and treatment planning had not taken place then, that I would be catless right now.
She will have Chemotherapy Mondays every third week. We had her second treatment last week. Not all cats are nauseous afterward, but she is. So she received an anti-nausea injection before treatment this time! She mostly wanted to catch up on sleep when I brought her home late in the afternoon, but she was willing to eat canned food.
The next morning I had a purring Abbiecat on my pillow. This is the kindest cat I have ever had about mornings. We have settled on 9AM as breakfast time for her. I had been complimented on how well she accepted her therapy, but you see Moma is not supposed to inconvenience her, just other people. Clearly I have stepped around and over her and been more respectful of her comfort than perhaps I should have been. She was a total twit about being pilled each day with 1/2 of a tiny anti-nausea pill. I burrito wrapped her, had a tiny bit of water in a syringe standing by to encourage swallowing and still had a struggle getting a pill into her tiny Persian mouth. I gave up on Thursday but next time I will persevere Tuesday through Friday. Four teeny pills, really! I had one cat that I pilled every day of her life for years, but I am not having an easy time with The AbbieCat. Isn't it wonderful that she has that much spunk though?
She is still thin, so I ordered CatSure from Doctors Foster and Smith online. The extra nutrition canned food I was sent home with was not received favorably. So I hope Catsure will be yummy to her. I also ordered a bunch of munchy and chewy Omega3 supplement treats because she wasn't willing to eat any food I added the Liquid version to after her Surgeon recommended it. Ok, so I hope to get the supplements boxes checked off. We only used Science Diet canned foods twice a week previously. Her surgeon recommended that most of her diet be canned food now. If she could speak she would thank him! She is very happy about this development and will try nearly anything I offer her (nearly). Her pantry now includes Fancy Feast and other Purina goodies, Iams and Science Diet. I open a 3oz can of a poultry flavor for breakfast and a fish option later in the day. She is having five or six tiny meals a day, and hasn't eaten a full six ounces in a day yet, but she may be eating enough for her current weight. Did I ever mention that I can be home all day? AbbieJolie is a sweet, kind cat and I am so pleased to have her with me longer than I might have done.
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Post by queentakesjack on Jul 21, 2014 8:55:57 GMT -5
I'm glad to hear that the surgery went well and your kitty is still doing alright. I hope she starts eating more in the future though.
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Post by AbbieJolie on Aug 22, 2014 23:02:46 GMT -5
We didn't get six months but we nearly got three. I made the hard choice for AbbieJolie last Monday after seeing her pretty face LOOK unwell for the first time. Over the last weekend she would drink a bit of the CatSure I bought her but lost interest in actually eating canned foods. Her weight loss was alarming. Her surgeon said her liver was enlarged for the first time and her original tumor seemed a third again bigger than it had before chemotherapy. I had never seen her expression change to looking unwell until a week before I said goodbye. She was too spectacular a cat to allow her to suffer more. For me, having ten weeks to pamper her and tell her everything I wanted to was important. The veterinary goal of the pet never having a bad day during the course of chemotherapy was upheld for at least eight weeks (the first week after the first round of chemotherapy was a learning curve and I learned that she did need anti-nausea meds for the week after Chemo, though some cats don't).
My home has lost AbbieJolie's vibrancy, but I am so grateful that I did not lose her as swiftly as I lost my first Himalayan. Diagnosis one day and Death the next (Pancreatic cancer) was just too too awful.
I have learned that Lymphosarcoma is the most common cancer in cats. My first clue that she was unwell was unexplained weight loss.
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Post by queentakesjack on Aug 23, 2014 12:59:23 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I'm glad you got to say goodbye though. It is always hard seeing our pets which are like our families suffer and pass. Thinking about you and your precious one.
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