Sick kitty

[cbelt3]

Awww. I hope she improves and lives a long and happy life supervising her staff. We too had a kitty that took a turn for the worse, but he got better and lived another 10 years.. to a ripe old 19 years of age.

[jesse]

Best wishes to Pixie, I hope she's feeling better soon.

[mattkime]

in my thoughts

[vision63]

mjgkramer wrote:
Have you recently applied any of the products that control fleas and ticks? Son used a Sergeant product on the cat and it went absolutely crazy. Ran up a $1000 vet bill which he could not pay. I don't know if the cat survived.

I hope his cat survived.

[Lux Interior]

Hoping for the best for Pixie!

PeterB wrote: Do cats get food poisoning?

They do get sick if they eat certain plants. Lilies are deadly to cats.

[ka jowct]

Pancreatitis sounds like a possibility. So sorry, poor Pixie. I hope she can pull through.

[Chakravartin]

Thank you for the kindness.

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.

[PeterB]

Dramamine? http://www.walkervalleyvet.com/otc-meds.htm

Swelling in the intestines ... food allergy maybe?

[vision63]

Hmmm. Interesting ailment. She says "get the bad bugs out of me please." We with you Pixie.

[abevilac]

I keep checking this posting to see of improved conditions; I hope all goes well.