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Lucy Status: And a Week After That
Jun. 2nd, 2023 09:24 pmAND A WEEK AFTER THAT
So Lucy had a good week. On Sunday afternoon she just suddenly started eating pretty well. Every afternoon and evening from Sunday on we've put down a third of a plate of her A/D Urgent Care food and she's eaten it. Admittedly, sometimes we had to coax her to finish, but she did.
Oh, and we ran out of anti-nausea pills yesterday morning, so we decided to see if her nausea (if there ever was any) had gone away. And we are now hopefully optimistic about that too, because she continued eating fine (perhaps even better) afterward.
We've still been tube feeding her in the morning, because she hasn't been interested in food then, and doing so makes sure her nutrition gets off to a good start, but this morning for the first time she tucked into breakfast. We only tube fed her (the last bit) because we'd already crushed up a pill to give her.
So, that's great progress and with five and a half days behind us, things could still turn around (in the wrong direction), but if things are still going this well next week we can get her tube taken out.
Mind you, we're still having to actively put food out for Lucy three times a day, and she's still not really eating her old dry food and we haven't figured out a way to get her new (Senior) dry food separate from the orangies, except by occasionally putting it out under supervision. So even if she really is doing better, there's another step where she tends to return to more sustainable eating patterns.
But, yay.
Unfortunately, Lucy's continuing to obsessively scratch at her color and whip her head around and Wednesday we started noticing her tube sliding in and out a considerable amount. Which freaked me out. Thursday I managed to secure it a little better with a tie around the collar, and then she was in at the vet today for what's been her weekly check-in.
Surprise! She'd managed to rip out the suture that was supposed to keep her tube in place.
(Not a surprise!)
So Lucy had a minor surgery this evening to put in TWO SUTURES to keep her feeding tube in place. And she got drugged up for it, so she's been kind of stumbling around the house this evening.
And worrying at her collar.
Hopefully the two sutures are stronger than she is.
Anyway, fingers crossed that things continue on the upswing and we have a cat heading back to healthiness.
So Lucy had a good week. On Sunday afternoon she just suddenly started eating pretty well. Every afternoon and evening from Sunday on we've put down a third of a plate of her A/D Urgent Care food and she's eaten it. Admittedly, sometimes we had to coax her to finish, but she did.
Oh, and we ran out of anti-nausea pills yesterday morning, so we decided to see if her nausea (if there ever was any) had gone away. And we are now hopefully optimistic about that too, because she continued eating fine (perhaps even better) afterward.
We've still been tube feeding her in the morning, because she hasn't been interested in food then, and doing so makes sure her nutrition gets off to a good start, but this morning for the first time she tucked into breakfast. We only tube fed her (the last bit) because we'd already crushed up a pill to give her.
So, that's great progress and with five and a half days behind us, things could still turn around (in the wrong direction), but if things are still going this well next week we can get her tube taken out.
Mind you, we're still having to actively put food out for Lucy three times a day, and she's still not really eating her old dry food and we haven't figured out a way to get her new (Senior) dry food separate from the orangies, except by occasionally putting it out under supervision. So even if she really is doing better, there's another step where she tends to return to more sustainable eating patterns.
But, yay.
Unfortunately, Lucy's continuing to obsessively scratch at her color and whip her head around and Wednesday we started noticing her tube sliding in and out a considerable amount. Which freaked me out. Thursday I managed to secure it a little better with a tie around the collar, and then she was in at the vet today for what's been her weekly check-in.
Surprise! She'd managed to rip out the suture that was supposed to keep her tube in place.
(Not a surprise!)
So Lucy had a minor surgery this evening to put in TWO SUTURES to keep her feeding tube in place. And she got drugged up for it, so she's been kind of stumbling around the house this evening.
And worrying at her collar.
Hopefully the two sutures are stronger than she is.
Anyway, fingers crossed that things continue on the upswing and we have a cat heading back to healthiness.