Flower's doing much better over the past couple days. I think she's mad at me though. She's been pretty friendly with Ashley and with Varr, but she ignores me most of the time lately. If she can keep her food down tonight, that will be 2 days (8 feedings) without vomiting. (I'm keeping my fingers crossed right now, because I just fed her the last meal of the day less than 15 minutes ago.) Dr. Duesberg prescribed ondansetron for vomiting/nausea and cyproheptadine (again) for appetite. The anti-vomiting medication must be working but I'm not so sure that the cypro is doing its job. Cyproheptadine can cause sedation (or excitation), which seems to be the case for Flower; and ondansetron can cause headaches and dizziness. So we have a host of side effects that reinforce her lethargic behavior. At her worst times she won't even acknowledge me. She's that way right now; I pet her and she stares straight ahead without even responding to my touch. I hate this. I'm separating her ondansetron and cyproheptadine doses beginning tonight so that I can evaluate the effects of each on her mood and energy level. I gave her ondansetron tonight so I'll give cyproheptadine in the morning and continue alternating; she's getting a meal every 6 hours. I'm also anxious to hear back on the test results for the biopsies and the pancreas (aspiration). The medications right now are just alleviating some of her symptoms in order to help get food down, but we're going to have to start treating the cause soon. On the bright side though, over the last two days she's been able to keep down almost one whole can of food. She continues to urinate regularly and had the first stool tonight that she's had in a week. These are all good signs but I still want to see her back to her old self! Hopefully she and I won't have to wait too much longer.
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