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The vet isn't trying to diagnose FIP through the ultrasound, she wants to look for anything else abnormal that might be the cause of the fever. She is looking for more 'pieces of the puzzle" so he can rule out various things, or maybe actually find a cause. I'm so on the fence about the ultrasound, but I guess if I want to be thorough, I have to do it. I hate to put her through all this if she does have FIP and is just going to get really sick and die in a week or month.
Last weekend is when I noticed her acting odd. I was leaving the house on Saturday and couldn't find her. Turned out as hiding under he bed. Not like her to hide, but I thought, well cats like hidey holes. But then she didn't want to play, sleeping all the time, didn't want to eat. Vet wasn't open. She almost went to the eVet on Sunday, but DH convinced me that she would probably get better care if we took her to our regular vet on Monday. We've been to the eVet with our other cat, and wasn't always pleased with the experience. On Monday her temperature was over 105. Scary. That's when she did the blood panel, Xrays, and general check up, and started her on antibiotics. We went back Tuesday morning to check again and it was down to 104 something. But later that day she vomited three times, and vet felt it was the clavomox. That's when we started her on the amoxicillin. It's been around 104 something since then, although once it was up to 105 again. Today it was 104.7. She's had sub Q twice, and vet started her on Pred Saturday. Over the weekend, she perked up, eating, vocalizing, wandering around, interacting with us and Swanie (our other cat), etc. We were hopeful, but figuring it was probably the Preds. When Cindy, our Rainbow kitty, first had the mass in her abdomen discovered, vet put her on preds and she perked up some too. Not as dramatically though.
I do what you mean about the eyes, I have some of my Cindy when she was dying that are painful to look at - and it was painful to see her like that at the time. Here are two pictures of Darcy I just took.
Last weekend is when I noticed her acting odd. I was leaving the house on Saturday and couldn't find her. Turned out as hiding under he bed. Not like her to hide, but I thought, well cats like hidey holes. But then she didn't want to play, sleeping all the time, didn't want to eat. Vet wasn't open. She almost went to the eVet on Sunday, but DH convinced me that she would probably get better care if we took her to our regular vet on Monday. We've been to the eVet with our other cat, and wasn't always pleased with the experience. On Monday her temperature was over 105. Scary. That's when she did the blood panel, Xrays, and general check up, and started her on antibiotics. We went back Tuesday morning to check again and it was down to 104 something. But later that day she vomited three times, and vet felt it was the clavomox. That's when we started her on the amoxicillin. It's been around 104 something since then, although once it was up to 105 again. Today it was 104.7. She's had sub Q twice, and vet started her on Pred Saturday. Over the weekend, she perked up, eating, vocalizing, wandering around, interacting with us and Swanie (our other cat), etc. We were hopeful, but figuring it was probably the Preds. When Cindy, our Rainbow kitty, first had the mass in her abdomen discovered, vet put her on preds and she perked up some too. Not as dramatically though.
I do what you mean about the eyes, I have some of my Cindy when she was dying that are painful to look at - and it was painful to see her like that at the time. Here are two pictures of Darcy I just took.