07-25-2013, 01:35 AM
ka jowct wrote:
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.
Do you know what they are giving her now?
I didn't know until a couple of weeks ago that famotidine was available in an injectable form. One of my clients had it for his kitty who is getting chemo. It was easy to give the shot sub-cutaneously. This cat is used to injections, as he is diabetic, but most cats I've known have less objection to shots than to being pilled. If Pixie is having trouble keeping stuff down, a shot might be the way to go.
She had that a couple of nights ago at the vet and it lasted most of a day, but she vomited when I gave her a cat-sized pill version. (She wasn't tolerating anything in her stomach.) I don't object to giving her sub-Q injections for a short time, but this could go on indefinitely.