Status Report

Today I started with a positive outlook but had some hard ups and downs during the day. I gave Flower her sub-q fluids and Valium this morning before school and then Ashley came over later and gave Flower her dose of amoxicillin. When I came home this evening Flower still hadn't eaten anything and so I began to worry. Ashley and I played with her for 15 or 20 minutes even though she was barely interested. Finally, I decided to try re-dosing her with cyproheptadine. This did not go well. I tried hard to get her to take the tablet but after 2 or 3 attempts she began to foam at the mouth and finally threw up. Watching her throw up is painful. I don't think that I've seen a cat wretch quite so violently as Flower does. She threw up twice: the first was mostly green and brown and included the little food that she had eaten and then again within a couple minutes, this time mostly yellowish in color. She continued flicking her tongue, and I was worried about letting her go a full 24 hours with virtually no food, so I decided that we should go to urgent care again to try to get some answers and hopefully a little help. Dr. Crook was very nice and she suggested that in order to find what was wrong we would start back at the beginning with testing. Since I already have an appointment to see Dr. Ikeda in the morning, I decided to wait on more testing. I did have them give her some anti-vomiting medication and something to help decrease acidity in her stomach as well as show me how to properly give her the tablets. Jeff was really helpful here and explained how he does it. I can use two fingers behind Flower's head and the thumb and index finger on the upper jaw to hold her mouth open and head back and then use the other hand to pull the lower jaw down and deliver the dosage. Hopefully I can do this more deftly than I have been. He went ahead and gave Flower the dosage of Valium and now we're at home in bed. As I was getting ready for bed, Flower came to find me a couple times and seemed to not want to go to bed without me, which I appreciate. I just hope I can do some good for her. Over the last six months I have worked to build her trust and I don't want to let her down. I want to be able to keep her safe and healthy. She is sleeping now, but I hope that she will wake me up tonight with loud chomping; I left about a third of a can of the A/D food for her and some water.

Also, as a side note, the past 2 days I have recorded about 25 mL of water gone from her bowl by the front window each day. I hope that this is because she is drinking it and not because it is evaporating. I make sure that the water stays out of the sun, but I still wonder.