[Felvtalk] Milkdud is home

[Lee Evans]

When Franny, a cat I had long ago, became ill with hepatic libidosis, also known as fatty liver disease, I did much the same things that your vet did with Harley - force fed her with a syringe after I took her home, brought her to the vet once a week for a B-Complex shot and each day I mixed into her food a dissolved tablet of vitamin B-12, 1000mcg. They had given Franny a 40% chance of survival because she had gone from a 12 pound cat to a 5 pound cat. She was very fluffy and lived in our organization office with her sister Zoey so we could not tell that she had been losing weight until it was at the critical stage. After she had been at the vet for over a week, they gave her to me and told me that she would most likely pass away. However, my mom had been a nurse in a hospital that cared for alcoholics. She said that any disease that has attacked the liver or spleen or pancreas would respond well to high doses of B-12. She said that was the treatment
 they gave alcoholics with cirrhosis of the liver where she worked. So I began Franny on a regimen of syringe feeding and vitamins. I took her and her sister home with me. Franny was around 4 years old when she got the life threatening illness. She passed away at 17 years old of old age and kidney failure. Don't give up on Milkdud and don't look at him every day as a hopeless case. He's home, he's grooming. That's small victory in itself. Hugs to you and Harley and Milkdud.


On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 5:50 PM, Marsha <martia at lynxe.com> wrote:
 
After almost 4 days in the hospital with a nasal feeding tube in, 
>Milkdud is home.  His bilirubin count dropped dramatically, and the 
>jaundice has faded.  The vet said his enlarged spleen with the mass felt 
>smaller and softer.  Milkdud was not as happy to see Harley as Harley 
>was to see him.  Harley eagerly approached him, giving his little chirp 
>greeting, and Milkdud hissed and growled at him.  Poor Harley.  So while 
>Milkdud spent an hour and a half motoring around the garage (keep him 
>quiet & confined, said the vet...bleep that says Milkdud) to see what 
>was still in place, and what had been moved or was new, rubbing his 
>cheek here there and everywhere, I cuddled with Harley.  I got a new 
>deluxe camp bed (cot) for the garage, and we got under a comforter.  
>Milkdud played with a catnip toy for a while, had a few kibbles, and 
>eventually settled on top of the bed between my feet to groom himself to 
>get all that icky hospital stink off.  I will be giving Milkdud 2 
>steroid shots a day, and an oral antibiotic once a day.  Unfortunately, 
>they made the antibiotic liquid chicken flavored, so now if he is 
>offered chicken baby food he makes this gagging face.  I will keep some 
>deli meat and Fancy Feast appetizers on hand, but hopefully he will eat 
>his regular food now that he feels a little better.  Hope our reprieve 
>lasts a while, but with metastatic cancer, it might not be long. :-(  
>Except for shaved hair for the ultrasound and IV spots, you can't tell 
>by looking at him that he is so ill inside.
>
>Marsha
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