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November 2013 we knew Kitty was going to die. Loosing weight from 11# to 8# tests and more meds. Hyper throid. Compounded medicines in her ears.
our vet suggested we take her to the University of Tennessee. They could do all the testing required plus sonagrams xrays on and on. We did and found out everything that was wrong. High blood pressure hyperthriod, renial failure, bladder stone, kidney stone. She"s 13 to 15 yesrs old. No longer eating, side effect of the thyriod medicine.
But still a loving green eyed trotoise who wasn't ready to let go. What to do. Where to start.
A feeding tube, peg tube, too keep her alive while we tried to find the right combination of medicines.
Stop the thyroid..start the blood pressure meds...
and feed her Hills KD through her tube. Keep her hydrated. It's mind bogling.
So we went for it. We"ve had constipation, vomiting, syringes that stick, human error, and fleeing Kitty.
And now we have a new problem, the peg site leaks and her hair has grown out and I can't keep the site clean.
Any suggestions for keeping site clean and trimming hair without giving her anisthetics to do it.
She still plays ..jumps off and on the furniture.
our vet suggested we take her to the University of Tennessee. They could do all the testing required plus sonagrams xrays on and on. We did and found out everything that was wrong. High blood pressure hyperthriod, renial failure, bladder stone, kidney stone. She"s 13 to 15 yesrs old. No longer eating, side effect of the thyriod medicine.
But still a loving green eyed trotoise who wasn't ready to let go. What to do. Where to start.
A feeding tube, peg tube, too keep her alive while we tried to find the right combination of medicines.
Stop the thyroid..start the blood pressure meds...
and feed her Hills KD through her tube. Keep her hydrated. It's mind bogling.
So we went for it. We"ve had constipation, vomiting, syringes that stick, human error, and fleeing Kitty.
And now we have a new problem, the peg site leaks and her hair has grown out and I can't keep the site clean.
Any suggestions for keeping site clean and trimming hair without giving her anisthetics to do it.
She still plays ..jumps off and on the furniture.