My cat is sick

[pameladean]

Raphael and I came home from hiking yesterday evening, and there was no Aristophanes to greet us. I eventually found him curled under a chair in the hottest room of the house. We worried that we had not left enough air conditioning on for him. After dithering a while, we took him over to the University of Minnesota's Small Animal Clinic, where he was discovered to have a high fever, dehydration, and possibly a pain in his belly. His white count was elevated but there was no clear sign of infection. I am still waiting on the urine culture, but since he has mild kidney disease and can't concentrate his urine well, there might not be any bacteria in it even if he does have an infection

They hydrated him and perked him right up; his fever was normal this morning, so since I had decided against an ultrasound right this moment, opting for antibiotics and hope.

He is much better than he was last night. I am sternly enjoined to make him eat and am doing my best. He tends to eat for a minute and lose interest, but repeated applications of fresh wet food, or a handful of new dry food, do make him eat more each time. He is looking tubby and lopsided because of the sub-cutaneous hydration. He has a pink stretchy bandage on his left front paw, which he hates, but resists my taking off. I have cut through most of it with the bandage scissors and decided to leave him alone for a bit, since he has been messed with far too much already.

I have been trying to forget all the things they told me it might be if it's not an infection, but I can't quite forget "pancreatitis." They kept saying, "a little pancreatitis," so I hope it is not the same thing as "a little bit pregnant."

He was only gone for about 12 hours, but I missed him tremendously. We have been together for more than fifteen years. I hope we will have a few more.

Pamela

Comments

[fgherman.livejournal.com]

I hope he's feeling better quickly.