Posted on 07/09/2016 7:40:46 PM PDT by Yaelle
If you love pets and animals and sometimes pray for them, I'm asking if you could say a little prayer for our kitty Ciel. She is only five years old, a sweet, smart Balinese. She was perfectly healthy and active until two days ago, when she started vomiting foam and stopped eating.
Today we took her in to the vet and she has acute renal failure and diabetes. He gave her IV fluids, some meds to fight nausea etc, and a little insulin. We are to give her sub q fluids and try to get her to eat. He says that she can recover completely but she needs to eat and keep food down. He gives her a 60% chance of survival because she is young and it is acute.
We love her so. She is usually riding on my son's shoulders or fetching toys for us to throw. Or annoying her older "sister" cat. It's unbearable to see her like this.
Thanks in advance for your prayers.
I have some liquid b12. Wonder how much you give. I have read it can help. Maybe even a drop in her syringe would help.
I hope she recovers fully soon. Just follow the doctor’s orders and take care of her the best you can.
Love and care are an excellent combination for healing.
This is great news!!
It is a battle that you will win!
Make sure you keep your strength up so you can keeping caring for her. Dont stay up all night worrying. You need your strength.
We expact a thread every day until the cat is better.
I had a brain injury 10 years ago, and they bought a kitten while i was in ICU.
For five years, he was my only companion until 7pm when wife got home.
Never gave cats a second hought before that. Friends of 30 years slowly disappeared but not my buddy :)
I understand your love for her.
I will send a prayer for your kitty, and while I can’t be of any help with advice to help, from what you posted, it sounds like it might have been due to ingestion of automotive coolant. You might want to check around your home and out on the street to see if there’s anything there, to ensure the other kitty (or any other animals in the neighborhood) don’t get into it.
Mark
Very true, FRiend! Amazing, complicated,mysterious, beautiful world we live in. And that is thanks to our Creator.
Take care! :)
God is omnipotent — He doesn’t have to shortchange one person, to help another person ... or kitty, as it may be.
No vermin in the home that could have carried it (mice?)
When the doc came in after the testing results, the first thing he asked was if we have lilies in the house, because they are deadly to cats. But we do not. I can’t think of any chemicals she could have gotten into. I’ve researched the two different brands of canned food they did eat in the last week, but they seem to be decent brands. They don’t eat supermarket cat food, we check labels, avoid stuff from China, etc. but how sudden it came on made me think she are something toxic. I don’t know, one person up thread said it can just come on suddenly.
Prayers. God bless.
WOW. That is so amazing. I have to tell my son your story. He also thanks everyone for praying for “his baby.” What an incredible story, little J. I have tears in my eyes.
Praying for your beautiful kitty.
I know that God loves all His children, and that includes animals. They are living beings - have a soul - just not as smart (can’t destroy the world...). And they know when they are loved and they love back.
Love is more nourishing than anything else...
Praying to St. Francis of Assisi , patron saint of animals.
Perhaps, but 1) we could not afford the $350 a day and 2) she would be alone in a cage. This way, the medicine isn’t perfect but she is in the home where she feels safe with us loving on her, feeding her round the clock, tending to her.
Yes, if she doesn’t get better, we will search for a different way to IV her.
But the first ingredient is corn syrup. She has diabetes. So I don’t think it would work.
I remember the story of you recovering with your buddy. I loved it, still do. While I love Ciel with all my heart, my teenage son is her daddy. He cannot lose her. We must win. <3
If subcutaneous turns out to be satisfactory later on, it will be far easier to do.
We are going to do the first sub q in the morning, he will hold and I will do the needle. I love the idea of a cat sack. At least she is small and slender to hold. Thanks for the tips! Will let you know how it goes.
One thing I remember, as my mom’s cat got more ill, the cat could only eat beef-based cat food. Cans of soft food. I don’t know if beef is more digestable than other things like chicken, or if it was just a preference of one particular cat. The cat used to eat anything - turkey, beef, chicken, etc. but finally she would only eat soft food from beef. I hope kitty does well!
There are various prescription canned foods too, including something that is very rich and will melt into a thick gruel when warmed. When worse came to worst, I wrapped the cat in a black plastic trash bag to keep her fur clean up to her head, plopped her into the bathtub on a towel, and put it down her throat with a turkey baster. Kind of messy, but due to the tub not hard to clean up afterwards. A washcloth cleaning of the head and she was ready to go.
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