Okay, things have somewhat stabilized. I thought that I would provide a brief update on the status of things.
Rexy: Over xmas, wee Rexy girl diagnosed with triaditis without the bowel involvement (so it is confined to bile duct, liver, pancreas). Doing really rather well and is stable with a good quality of life for a senior lady. Eating quite well all things considered. Way surpassing rather guarded/negative expectations of the internal medicine specialist (go Rexy!!). She is on some daily prednisolone (not too high of a dosage) and is finishing her round of flagyl (good antibiotic for this kind of issue). She is getting VitB12 injections. She has had asthma for years and has been on flovent for years and that continues to be stable. No idea what her prognosis really is (no one can be certain), but if things remain as is, then I am very happy.
Murchie: Diagnosed with pancreatitis. Reasonably stable and pretty good appetite. Not really very symptomatic despite high values on his test. He does not seem to be in particular pain when vet checked him out, thank goodness. Subq fluids every other day and VitB12 injections.
Liam: Never posted about this on here, but he got a bad bladder infection just after xmas (no crystals - we did urinalysis and imaging to confirm). In the midst of his antibiotic treatment. Mood much improved since starting his meds. Eating not quite back to what it was, but doing well overall. Urine still not the right colour, but we are not too far into his treatment so fingers crossed that with more time all is normal again.
Toffee: Bladder surgery went well and all is healing fine. That healing issue where his loose canine tooth was pulled a while back remains his biggest obstacle. Infection seems to be gone now. It almost seems as if he might have had a condition called dry socket (happens in humans) in which the extraction hole does not form a covering blood clot properly and thus heals poorly leaving pain and exposed nerves and such (apparently there are just some people who are prone to this so maybe cats can be too, no one's fault, just some people are predisposed to this - want to talk to my vet about this). We should get Toffee through this with time. Toffee has lost weight leading up to issues over xmas, and a bit more through this ordeal, and I am keeping a vigilant eye on this. He is not eating as well as I would like but it could be the tooth or antibiotics etc. - he has had xrays, ultrasound, bloodwork when we did diagnostics back around xmas, so I don't see the need to put him through more testing as not sure what more we can do. Want to see what happens as this tooth issue stabilizes better. He is on antibiotics for the tooth infection and he is hyperthyroid so his usual meds for that (might get that rechecked just in case although I tested it very recently). He is also being rather jealous of the new kitty so that is not helping his mood and eating either. I fuss over Toffee like there is no tomorrow and the new kitty is so kind to Toffee and so wants to be his friend, but Toffee is just a guarded jealous type - sigh.
Duncan cat and Gryffin kitten are doing well right now with no specific treatments or issues (yay!!).
One thing that is driving me bananas is that with all of these various issues, I have a bunch of very picky eaters with their wet food - other than Duncan and Gryffin. Every day they seem to change their mind which wet food they prefer - one day one cat loves one food, then the next day that cat rejects it. When you have 3 or so cats partaking in this kind of thing at the same time, the net result if a lot of opened and half-finished wet food. This is a pet peeve for me right now. Maybe I am catering to them too much, but when they are not well, I just know how important it is to get food into them.
Rexy: Over xmas, wee Rexy girl diagnosed with triaditis without the bowel involvement (so it is confined to bile duct, liver, pancreas). Doing really rather well and is stable with a good quality of life for a senior lady. Eating quite well all things considered. Way surpassing rather guarded/negative expectations of the internal medicine specialist (go Rexy!!). She is on some daily prednisolone (not too high of a dosage) and is finishing her round of flagyl (good antibiotic for this kind of issue). She is getting VitB12 injections. She has had asthma for years and has been on flovent for years and that continues to be stable. No idea what her prognosis really is (no one can be certain), but if things remain as is, then I am very happy.
Murchie: Diagnosed with pancreatitis. Reasonably stable and pretty good appetite. Not really very symptomatic despite high values on his test. He does not seem to be in particular pain when vet checked him out, thank goodness. Subq fluids every other day and VitB12 injections.
Liam: Never posted about this on here, but he got a bad bladder infection just after xmas (no crystals - we did urinalysis and imaging to confirm). In the midst of his antibiotic treatment. Mood much improved since starting his meds. Eating not quite back to what it was, but doing well overall. Urine still not the right colour, but we are not too far into his treatment so fingers crossed that with more time all is normal again.
Toffee: Bladder surgery went well and all is healing fine. That healing issue where his loose canine tooth was pulled a while back remains his biggest obstacle. Infection seems to be gone now. It almost seems as if he might have had a condition called dry socket (happens in humans) in which the extraction hole does not form a covering blood clot properly and thus heals poorly leaving pain and exposed nerves and such (apparently there are just some people who are prone to this so maybe cats can be too, no one's fault, just some people are predisposed to this - want to talk to my vet about this). We should get Toffee through this with time. Toffee has lost weight leading up to issues over xmas, and a bit more through this ordeal, and I am keeping a vigilant eye on this. He is not eating as well as I would like but it could be the tooth or antibiotics etc. - he has had xrays, ultrasound, bloodwork when we did diagnostics back around xmas, so I don't see the need to put him through more testing as not sure what more we can do. Want to see what happens as this tooth issue stabilizes better. He is on antibiotics for the tooth infection and he is hyperthyroid so his usual meds for that (might get that rechecked just in case although I tested it very recently). He is also being rather jealous of the new kitty so that is not helping his mood and eating either. I fuss over Toffee like there is no tomorrow and the new kitty is so kind to Toffee and so wants to be his friend, but Toffee is just a guarded jealous type - sigh.
Duncan cat and Gryffin kitten are doing well right now with no specific treatments or issues (yay!!).
One thing that is driving me bananas is that with all of these various issues, I have a bunch of very picky eaters with their wet food - other than Duncan and Gryffin. Every day they seem to change their mind which wet food they prefer - one day one cat loves one food, then the next day that cat rejects it. When you have 3 or so cats partaking in this kind of thing at the same time, the net result if a lot of opened and half-finished wet food. This is a pet peeve for me right now. Maybe I am catering to them too much, but when they are not well, I just know how important it is to get food into them.
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