21 year old Homer started developing inner ear problems. Horrible smell coming from his left ear, lots of blood from scratching, etc. Took the old man to the vet, she told me that he had a bacterial infection in one ear and two in the other. She gave me antibiotic to administer 2x a day in each ear. The first time I gave it to him, he freaked out, and I wondered why, since he was good at the vet. Well, since the liquid is refrigerated I'm shooting an ice into his ear, duh. So I warmed the applicator in my hand, he still hates it. Then all of the sudden he decided he didn't want to eat solid food, he couldn't grasp it or chew it, uh. oh. So I rushed online and found out cats that have this problem usually have a ruptured eardrum, now if it occurred at the vet or if I did it somehow putting in the medicine, I don't know, his movement is fine however, wasn't listing and his one eye doesn't seem to be drooping or is unusual. He would like the gravy from wet food, but I couldn't get him to eat anything solid no matter how much I mashed the food.
So I went to the pet store and bought up all those packets of the liquified food, he licked that stuff right up. After a few days, the odor went away and the amount of blood decreased, but he still kept scratching at this ear because the blood and the antibiotic would dry up and flake in his ear. Its like a catch 22. Things were getting better until last night, as he was licking up his food he let out this blood curling cry that wouldn't stop for half a minute, he ran and hid and its probably a result of pain from not being able to open his jaw. He is now 24/7 under the couch in his nice safe environment, he is constantly on alert, can never get calmed, his frightened of me and is miserable, I recently stopped the meds because it this point its doing more harm then good. He ate almost an entire pouch of food this morning, and I scheduled a follow up in a couple of days to get him checked over again. This is freakin me out, I want to look under the couch every minute to see if he is resting, but every time I do, I know he is worried I am going to do harm to him. I might go see if there is something calming I could get for the room, just to relax him.
So I went to the pet store and bought up all those packets of the liquified food, he licked that stuff right up. After a few days, the odor went away and the amount of blood decreased, but he still kept scratching at this ear because the blood and the antibiotic would dry up and flake in his ear. Its like a catch 22. Things were getting better until last night, as he was licking up his food he let out this blood curling cry that wouldn't stop for half a minute, he ran and hid and its probably a result of pain from not being able to open his jaw. He is now 24/7 under the couch in his nice safe environment, he is constantly on alert, can never get calmed, his frightened of me and is miserable, I recently stopped the meds because it this point its doing more harm then good. He ate almost an entire pouch of food this morning, and I scheduled a follow up in a couple of days to get him checked over again. This is freakin me out, I want to look under the couch every minute to see if he is resting, but every time I do, I know he is worried I am going to do harm to him. I might go see if there is something calming I could get for the room, just to relax him.