Missie will get a gel that is to be compounded by the chemist..hope it won't be too expensive cuz bloods have to be taken every two weeks until we are sure she is stable..Makes me nervous.
Asked the vet if she looked at Nacho in a sort of post mortum and she looked at his kidneys..they were no bad like the bloods would make one think they should be...what really happened we don't know. I think it had to do with hypertension and the medicine...can't prove it but the first week he had a little seizure..only one that I know about...makes me wonder if he threw a clot or something..I would think the vet would be cruious enough on her own to look even if tissues were not strange enough to the naked eye to find out just what may have been the cause. If she did, she isn't telling me much because I could not afford a cost for an autopsy. I hope she learned something that can help another pet...but I sure wish I knew what happened to my little orange cat. If I knew how to post a picture I would but I am not set up to do that...need to talk to the hephew or niece who are experts at this as they work at a ptinting co..
Ya know, CG....there's so much that is unknown with our critters...without them having the ability to tell us exactly how they feel or where they hurt, we're left to 'hunt and peck' through a list of symptoms and trying to treat those symptoms.
Autopsies, or necropsies, are fascinating to observe or take part in. Raising livestock, I always thought the most important animal was the one I had autopsied because it could provide some information about overall herd health.
My best friend and I did an autopsy on a small lamb one time....little motherless thing. Seemed to be doing pretty good with bottle feeding...but developed seizures. Vet gave me some medicine (started with a p, as I recall). For a couple of days that seemed ok....but then it was like she had one big seizure after another and just died.
Things were pretty tight financially at that time as Gene had gone on dialysis, but disability had not kicked in yet....so I called this best friend crying and she comes over and announces 'we' will do the autopsy and if we find something 'odd', she would run it in to the vet or call her vet about it anyhow.
While I never had a problem bringing a sick baby into my home, I knew Gene would draw the line at making any part of said home a 'coroner's office'. So we did it outside (this was late January-cold, snow on ground).
Considering the 'crude instruments' we had to use, we actually did very well! Thankfully, Diane had taken a number of biology and zoology classes in college.
While we didn't find what caused the seizures, we did find an anomally in the liver tissue--there were several oocysts. Diane talked with her vet and I can't remember what imedical condition it was indicative of.
Sometimes, friend, we can drive ourselves batty trying to figure out what went wrong....and our energy should be spent trying to maintain the health and wellbeing of the rest.
Missie's lucky to have you as her slave. :)