07-24-2013, 11:48 PM
Thank you for the kindness.
No. Good idea, but she's an indoor cat and never had to so much as wear a flea collar. No indication that she was poisoned.
The ultrasound showed swelling throughout her intestines, but was indeterminate about the pancreas. She's on antibiotics on the chance that she had a bad urinary infection. She's on anti-nausea drugs and appetite-stimulators and she has eaten once today without throwing up shortly afterwards, so things are looking up.
The blood test for pancreatitis take a few days, as does the urine-culture. The vet said that she wasn't confident that endoscopy would be helpful and a definitive test for cancer might require surgery, so we're holding off on those procedures at least until the other test results come back. An IBS or IBD diagnosis would be differential and inferred by negative results from the other tests and by success of treatment with steroids.
They're experimenting with different drugs to see which ones she can tolerate in pill form for me to administer at home. If they find an oral anti-nausea medication that she won't throw up then I might have her home as early as tomorrow night.
mjgkramer wrote:
Have you recently applied any of the products that control fleas and ticks?
No. Good idea, but she's an indoor cat and never had to so much as wear a flea collar. No indication that she was poisoned.
The ultrasound showed swelling throughout her intestines, but was indeterminate about the pancreas. She's on antibiotics on the chance that she had a bad urinary infection. She's on anti-nausea drugs and appetite-stimulators and she has eaten once today without throwing up shortly afterwards, so things are looking up.
The blood test for pancreatitis take a few days, as does the urine-culture. The vet said that she wasn't confident that endoscopy would be helpful and a definitive test for cancer might require surgery, so we're holding off on those procedures at least until the other test results come back. An IBS or IBD diagnosis would be differential and inferred by negative results from the other tests and by success of treatment with steroids.
They're experimenting with different drugs to see which ones she can tolerate in pill form for me to administer at home. If they find an oral anti-nausea medication that she won't throw up then I might have her home as early as tomorrow night.