My Maddie cat stopped eating during a time when hubby had flu, then I had flu. She is 12 years old. Must have been upsetting to her. A 5 day stay at hospital resulted in E tube and 8, yes EIGHT medications. We were terrified of the first feeding and trying to organize the meds and feeding was a nightmare!!! We are retired and used to have a life. After 4 days of food/meds, kitty was visibly going DOWNHILL after the meds dosage. I hated the hospital people who were very insensitive. I took her to a fabulous holistic vet that Saturday who spent almost two hours with her and us on a Saturday afternoon! He took her off all meds except Vitamin K1. He added Silymarin (Milk thistle) and chelidonium. She is better than on the darn 8 meds, but slow going.
The hospital NEVER said anything about cleaning or checking the place on her neck where the tube comes out! Readiing these threads, I see that mentioned several times. So, now I'm worried about that. The hospital told me to purree the food. They never mentioned liquify it. We noticed today (Day 9 of using same feeding syringe) that it is getting really stopped up and hard to administer. We did add organic pumpkin, yogurt and honey to the food. I'm wondering if the small amounts of these new healthy foods is making the syringe get stuck, or if we just need a NEW SYRINGE. THOUGHTS?
I"M TERRIFIED at the thought of getting her feeding tube plugged up. Geez!!!
Maddie is also on Cerenia for nausea. But, she is still nauseous. We feed her very slowly. The hospital had us work up from 10 ML's of food, 4 x daily to 24 ML's 4 times daily. She is currently 9.5-10 lbs. Many of the other posts are feeding their cats MUCH MORE than we are! I know its supposed to be based upon their weight, but I'm concerned with how much other people have been instructed to feed as compared to how little we are feeding. Her tummy feels bloated. She does not PEE/POOP but every couple days. Is this normal?
She moans and groans about all the time and feels just horrible. I try and take comfort in the tiny little things I see - like her eyes are open more today than yesterday. Or, yea! She went to the potty! Or wow! She moved a couple feet!
We are on Day 9 of the tube feeding and she still feels awful. When can we expect any improvement? It kills me to think of how she is suffering, with all the moaning and groaning.....
Thanks for any advice on my long email. I'm glad to hear we are not the only ones with pureed cat food all over the windows, ceilings, drawers. The kitchen is a disaster, had to drop the cleaning lady because she can't come into the ICU ward now. I was a walking zombie and finally made the sad choice to shut kitty in bathroom at night by herself just so I could get some sleep!!!
The hospital NEVER said anything about cleaning or checking the place on her neck where the tube comes out! Readiing these threads, I see that mentioned several times. So, now I'm worried about that. The hospital told me to purree the food. They never mentioned liquify it. We noticed today (Day 9 of using same feeding syringe) that it is getting really stopped up and hard to administer. We did add organic pumpkin, yogurt and honey to the food. I'm wondering if the small amounts of these new healthy foods is making the syringe get stuck, or if we just need a NEW SYRINGE. THOUGHTS?
I"M TERRIFIED at the thought of getting her feeding tube plugged up. Geez!!!
Maddie is also on Cerenia for nausea. But, she is still nauseous. We feed her very slowly. The hospital had us work up from 10 ML's of food, 4 x daily to 24 ML's 4 times daily. She is currently 9.5-10 lbs. Many of the other posts are feeding their cats MUCH MORE than we are! I know its supposed to be based upon their weight, but I'm concerned with how much other people have been instructed to feed as compared to how little we are feeding. Her tummy feels bloated. She does not PEE/POOP but every couple days. Is this normal?
She moans and groans about all the time and feels just horrible. I try and take comfort in the tiny little things I see - like her eyes are open more today than yesterday. Or, yea! She went to the potty! Or wow! She moved a couple feet!
We are on Day 9 of the tube feeding and she still feels awful. When can we expect any improvement? It kills me to think of how she is suffering, with all the moaning and groaning.....
Thanks for any advice on my long email. I'm glad to hear we are not the only ones with pureed cat food all over the windows, ceilings, drawers. The kitchen is a disaster, had to drop the cleaning lady because she can't come into the ICU ward now. I was a walking zombie and finally made the sad choice to shut kitty in bathroom at night by herself just so I could get some sleep!!!