Flowerbelle has continued to have a long, deep cough, which was ascribed to the parasitic pneumonia. She has this cough two to four times a day. But she was on a regimine of Strongid-t and Panacur, her last dose of Panacur was last week (Tue), and her last dose of Strongid-t was to be yesterday, with one dose administered last Wednesday. When she was still coughing last Thursday, we called her vet. He said the Panacur is a "slow, penetrating" kind of poison, and to let it do its work.
Her left eye was starting to film over again, so we were worried about that too.
Saturday she still sounded bad - and seemed to have trouble catching her breath when coughing. We called the vet. Because she was eating healthy amounts, drinking a lot, and VERY active like a normal kitten, the tech suggested waiting until Monday when the vet who has been treating her was back in, although he had no appointments available all week.
We called Monday AM, and they squeezed us in to see her vet right away, and we dropped everything and rushed over there.
There were no worms or eggs in her feces, and she didn't cough while there.
BUT an exam of her left eye revealed ulcers again - the inner lid was curling in again. He said she really needed surgery on the eye again ASAP (actually, there's an interesting article in October's Cat Fancy about cat's eyes) in order to prevent permanent damage to her cornea. When he did the first surgery, he did warn us that this may happen, so this did not take us by surprise.
The earliest he could do it was yesterday.
So we dropped her off yesterday morning, and she received the surgery yesterday late afternoon. She is recovering fine.
But, obviously, because of our concern about the cough, they took X-rays again.
Her lungs looked "twice as bad" as when she was in before.
They took biopsies for exam & culture. He ran through a short list of problems it could be, but he did mention that we should be prepared for the possibility of FIP, for which there is no known cure and which is 100% fatal.
He reassured us that IF it is FIP, it is very, very unlikely that any of our other cats have been infected.
I pray it's not too late for a little board magic. I cannot tell you how upset Gary & were yesterday evening. I couldn't bring myself to post.
We will find out later this afternoon.
Please send your love, vibes, good thoughts and/or prayers to this wonderful little girl!!!
Her left eye was starting to film over again, so we were worried about that too.
Saturday she still sounded bad - and seemed to have trouble catching her breath when coughing. We called the vet. Because she was eating healthy amounts, drinking a lot, and VERY active like a normal kitten, the tech suggested waiting until Monday when the vet who has been treating her was back in, although he had no appointments available all week.
We called Monday AM, and they squeezed us in to see her vet right away, and we dropped everything and rushed over there.
There were no worms or eggs in her feces, and she didn't cough while there.
BUT an exam of her left eye revealed ulcers again - the inner lid was curling in again. He said she really needed surgery on the eye again ASAP (actually, there's an interesting article in October's Cat Fancy about cat's eyes) in order to prevent permanent damage to her cornea. When he did the first surgery, he did warn us that this may happen, so this did not take us by surprise.
The earliest he could do it was yesterday.
So we dropped her off yesterday morning, and she received the surgery yesterday late afternoon. She is recovering fine.
But, obviously, because of our concern about the cough, they took X-rays again.
Her lungs looked "twice as bad" as when she was in before.
They took biopsies for exam & culture. He ran through a short list of problems it could be, but he did mention that we should be prepared for the possibility of FIP, for which there is no known cure and which is 100% fatal.
He reassured us that IF it is FIP, it is very, very unlikely that any of our other cats have been infected.
I pray it's not too late for a little board magic. I cannot tell you how upset Gary & were yesterday evening. I couldn't bring myself to post.
We will find out later this afternoon.
Please send your love, vibes, good thoughts and/or prayers to this wonderful little girl!!!