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I'll go from youngest to oldest...
DIVA: Still sequestered, I'm still sleeping with her every other night. And, every other night, like clockwork, she downloads a doozy in the middle of the night. I expect the same to happen tonight. :/ She's been taken off the Lactulose and is now solely on my concoction of wet food/miralax/benefiber/babyfood squash as of yesterday per Dr. DiVerde. Hoping her downloads firm up a bit now as I get her regulated on the right amounts of miralax primarily. She's on a steady amount of benefiber at 1/4tsp and a steady amount of squash at 1/8ish tsp. The miralax is harder to gauge and get regulated as it does the bulk of the work. Buttsplosions with too much and no action with too little. It's a remarkably delicate balance, really. Hopefully I'll get it right soon.
RA: I think I posted about his guts getting stupid on him last week just before J's Mom and her friend came into town...J upped his pred to 2.5mg 2x a day and added famotidine for a few days and he got pretty much back to normal by midweek last week. We've found out it's still a bit tenuous, though; J forgot to give him his normal dose of pred this AM and he had a bout of the bile/spit pukes this afternoon. Chasing down an agitated and sickly Ra-boy and trying to pill him was quite a challenge, but I managed to finally corner him in the office while he was in his cup bed and get him. He shook his head violently right after I got the pill in his mouth, but he swallowed right after that and hasn't puked since so I'm pretty sure I successfully pilled him. Not bad for not being Daddy. :)
JAZZ: Seems to be doing alright on the Cisapride alone; downloading as she should be so far. No side effects that we can tell save for lots of drooling after a dose. We switched from evening to right before her first morning feed and that seems to be working out well. She seems to like the distraction of eating her first meal of the day and it helps with the drooling I think. We'll see if it continues to work out for her. It's a drag she's on yet another med, and one that makes her all drooly and probably have a bad taste in her mouth to boot. But if it does what it's supposed to and makes her life easier I'm generally okay with that. She's due for a bloodwork recheck in a week or so--hopefully the Pet Tinic vitamin supplement (or "tonic" as Dr. B calls it) is working and her anemia is under control. We shall see.
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So we continue to be on guard, but things seem to be getting back to a little bit closer to normal *knocks wood*.
DIVA: Still sequestered, I'm still sleeping with her every other night. And, every other night, like clockwork, she downloads a doozy in the middle of the night. I expect the same to happen tonight. :/ She's been taken off the Lactulose and is now solely on my concoction of wet food/miralax/benefiber/babyfood squash as of yesterday per Dr. DiVerde. Hoping her downloads firm up a bit now as I get her regulated on the right amounts of miralax primarily. She's on a steady amount of benefiber at 1/4tsp and a steady amount of squash at 1/8ish tsp. The miralax is harder to gauge and get regulated as it does the bulk of the work. Buttsplosions with too much and no action with too little. It's a remarkably delicate balance, really. Hopefully I'll get it right soon.
RA: I think I posted about his guts getting stupid on him last week just before J's Mom and her friend came into town...J upped his pred to 2.5mg 2x a day and added famotidine for a few days and he got pretty much back to normal by midweek last week. We've found out it's still a bit tenuous, though; J forgot to give him his normal dose of pred this AM and he had a bout of the bile/spit pukes this afternoon. Chasing down an agitated and sickly Ra-boy and trying to pill him was quite a challenge, but I managed to finally corner him in the office while he was in his cup bed and get him. He shook his head violently right after I got the pill in his mouth, but he swallowed right after that and hasn't puked since so I'm pretty sure I successfully pilled him. Not bad for not being Daddy. :)
JAZZ: Seems to be doing alright on the Cisapride alone; downloading as she should be so far. No side effects that we can tell save for lots of drooling after a dose. We switched from evening to right before her first morning feed and that seems to be working out well. She seems to like the distraction of eating her first meal of the day and it helps with the drooling I think. We'll see if it continues to work out for her. It's a drag she's on yet another med, and one that makes her all drooly and probably have a bad taste in her mouth to boot. But if it does what it's supposed to and makes her life easier I'm generally okay with that. She's due for a bloodwork recheck in a week or so--hopefully the Pet Tinic vitamin supplement (or "tonic" as Dr. B calls it) is working and her anemia is under control. We shall see.
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So we continue to be on guard, but things seem to be getting back to a little bit closer to normal *knocks wood*.
