Our 6-ish y/o tuxedo, PollyAnna, just spent her second night at the vet after going in on an emergency call because she was vomitting and not pooping. Apparently she hasn't peed since she went in, either.
First of all, I feel like a complete idiot for not bringing her sooner because now that I look back on things, she had diarrhea-like stool for a few weeks and they STUNK -- one night we had to open the windows in the house because she had just used her box. I chalked it up to her just having not-the-greatest innards because she was a stray for so long... plus we just got her in July and she's been kind of stinky ever since - bad breath, etc.
So her fecal float came back positive for Roundworms. This will be her third and final dose of her worm meds today. Plus she's on antibiotics. She's eating very well, and when they did fecal sticks on her, the poo was soft.
Why would she not be pooping!? I scared myself half to death by reading the internet ... about how worms can get bad enough to just totally infest the entire cat.
Is my baby going to die?
They've fed her ID food, she's eaten it like a champ for the most part, and they said that should speed things along... but what if the worms are getting that, too, and it's not helping her? I just feel like I'm frazzled.
My cats are my children. We can't have children of our own.... so they are our children and if anything ever happened to them I would die.
She seems alert, and when I visited her yesterday she licked my hand and let me pet her for a long while. She puts up a fuss when they did the fecal stick, which made me happy because she was not being lethargic.
She hasn't vomited since she's been there. The first night they had her on anti-nausea meds, but since then they've left her alone in that department to see what she'd do. She's heaved a few times but never actually vomitted, according to her chart.
NOW I have to say... that two days ago (the day we ended up bringing her in later) I took away her food, so could that have an impact of what she is NOT pooping now?? I don't get it! How can she be eating and not moving it in ANY direction!?!?
I'm waiting for her vet to call me back. He is off but it going in to check on his patients and will call me as soon as he looks at her. What do you think I should ask him? Should I ask about x-rays to see if she's blocked?
If her case of roundworms is really terrible, will she make it through okay??
First of all, I feel like a complete idiot for not bringing her sooner because now that I look back on things, she had diarrhea-like stool for a few weeks and they STUNK -- one night we had to open the windows in the house because she had just used her box. I chalked it up to her just having not-the-greatest innards because she was a stray for so long... plus we just got her in July and she's been kind of stinky ever since - bad breath, etc.
So her fecal float came back positive for Roundworms. This will be her third and final dose of her worm meds today. Plus she's on antibiotics. She's eating very well, and when they did fecal sticks on her, the poo was soft.
Why would she not be pooping!? I scared myself half to death by reading the internet ... about how worms can get bad enough to just totally infest the entire cat.
Is my baby going to die?
They've fed her ID food, she's eaten it like a champ for the most part, and they said that should speed things along... but what if the worms are getting that, too, and it's not helping her? I just feel like I'm frazzled.
My cats are my children. We can't have children of our own.... so they are our children and if anything ever happened to them I would die.
She seems alert, and when I visited her yesterday she licked my hand and let me pet her for a long while. She puts up a fuss when they did the fecal stick, which made me happy because she was not being lethargic.
She hasn't vomited since she's been there. The first night they had her on anti-nausea meds, but since then they've left her alone in that department to see what she'd do. She's heaved a few times but never actually vomitted, according to her chart.
NOW I have to say... that two days ago (the day we ended up bringing her in later) I took away her food, so could that have an impact of what she is NOT pooping now?? I don't get it! How can she be eating and not moving it in ANY direction!?!?
I'm waiting for her vet to call me back. He is off but it going in to check on his patients and will call me as soon as he looks at her. What do you think I should ask him? Should I ask about x-rays to see if she's blocked?
If her case of roundworms is really terrible, will she make it through okay??