Another hard day for Polly
Oct. 28th, 2006 05:51 pmSo Polly, it seems, has wised up to the whole "putting pink antibiotic goop in her food" trick. Which is a problem. Earlier this week I got sanction from the vet to take her off the antibiotic for a few days, on the grounds that Polly wasn't getting her thyroid med either by avoiding her food. As soon as I stopped putting the pink goop in the food, she immediately started eating again. So I know for sure she isn't liking the presence of the stuff in there.
Problem is, whatever problem required me to put her on the antibiotic in the first place hasn't gone away. She started letting fly around the house some more this week, and this morning she did so on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat's bed. Not good. Not long after I caught her heading for the wall where she's pulled this trick a lot before, and when I chased her off from there, she went to the cushion lying on the floor facing the TV and sprayed that instead.
I got onto the phone with the vet and arranged to take her in to be seen this afternoon. I saw a new doctor this time, and expressed specific concern about the possibility of a recurrence of the stones problem she had in the past. They took her in the back of the place for some X-rays, and she yowled a lot, and when they finally brought her back out to me (after closing time), they were at least able to tell me that she doesn't have any stones. That's the good part. The somewhat distressing part is that I still need to bring her back in on Monday morning, because they want to get a culture out of her urine. We've tried to do this a few times already, and it's been hard. So now I'll just have to suck it up and leave her there until they can get what they need out of her. And that'll make Monday wacky for my work schedule.
In the meantime I am to avoid giving her any more of the pink goop for the rest of this weekend, and I've been given some special prescription, high-calorie cat food to give her to try to perk her appetite back up. Kitty cheeseburgers, essentially. I gave her a serving of that just now and she vacuumed up about half of it, so I'm pretty sure I don't have to worry about her having developed some sort of weird food aversion.
I'm still worried, though. If she doesn't have the stones problem again, the other possibilities seem to be kidney disease, some sort of infection that's resistant to the current antibiotic, a different sort of stones problem that they can't find with the X-ray, or perhaps a tumor of some kind. None of which sounds very encouraging, and if the urine culture doesn't tell them useful stuff, the next step after that will be an abdominal ultrasound.
Here's hoping the urine culture gets them the data they need. Polly gets crankier every time I take her in, and this is a lot of stress for such an old kitty.
Problem is, whatever problem required me to put her on the antibiotic in the first place hasn't gone away. She started letting fly around the house some more this week, and this morning she did so on
spazzkat's bed. Not good. Not long after I caught her heading for the wall where she's pulled this trick a lot before, and when I chased her off from there, she went to the cushion lying on the floor facing the TV and sprayed that instead.I got onto the phone with the vet and arranged to take her in to be seen this afternoon. I saw a new doctor this time, and expressed specific concern about the possibility of a recurrence of the stones problem she had in the past. They took her in the back of the place for some X-rays, and she yowled a lot, and when they finally brought her back out to me (after closing time), they were at least able to tell me that she doesn't have any stones. That's the good part. The somewhat distressing part is that I still need to bring her back in on Monday morning, because they want to get a culture out of her urine. We've tried to do this a few times already, and it's been hard. So now I'll just have to suck it up and leave her there until they can get what they need out of her. And that'll make Monday wacky for my work schedule.
In the meantime I am to avoid giving her any more of the pink goop for the rest of this weekend, and I've been given some special prescription, high-calorie cat food to give her to try to perk her appetite back up. Kitty cheeseburgers, essentially. I gave her a serving of that just now and she vacuumed up about half of it, so I'm pretty sure I don't have to worry about her having developed some sort of weird food aversion.
I'm still worried, though. If she doesn't have the stones problem again, the other possibilities seem to be kidney disease, some sort of infection that's resistant to the current antibiotic, a different sort of stones problem that they can't find with the X-ray, or perhaps a tumor of some kind. None of which sounds very encouraging, and if the urine culture doesn't tell them useful stuff, the next step after that will be an abdominal ultrasound.
Here's hoping the urine culture gets them the data they need. Polly gets crankier every time I take her in, and this is a lot of stress for such an old kitty.
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