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All cleaned out and ready to start over. :/ Here's to hoping they don't get all plugged up again...
Dr. D. thinks Jazz has the beginnings of megacolon, a condition wherein the colon expands after one too many bouts of being over stuffed with poo. This is likely related to her advanced age as well--she's only had two bouts of being extremely plugged (in the last week and a half, UGH) since I've had her so it's not because I've been remiss and let her linger too long all plugged up. There's a pill he wants to try for gut motility called cisapride, but damn! It's 56 bucks for a month's supply!! HOLY HANNAH!! :( He's decided to hold off for the current time, though because he knows I'm on a limited income and that I've put out for a ton of medical bills right now. If Jazz plugs up again, she's on it regardless, though.
Thankfully, though, Diva's showing no signs of megacolon. Dr. D. showed me what to look for in each of their xrays and Diva's colon is much tighter shaped than Jazz's is. Not that Jazz's is really huge or anything, but it's definitely stretched and different looking than Diva's.
He wants me to start introducing Miralax and baby food squash into Jazz's food in particular and Diva's secondarily. The Lactulose just isn't strong enough to cut it on its own right now. The Miralax is a stool softener I used to give Diva last year until she started rejecting her food when it was mixed in. I've been slowly reintroducing it, though and up until she barfed her dinner after she got back home she was tolerating it just fine. I put some in Jazz's food tonight and she only ate about half of what she normally eats. :/ Could be rejecting the Miralax, but I think she's still so stressed out from her day today that played more of a hand in things. We shall see.
So that's that. I am SO STRESSED out right now about my girls. They go from being relatively okay to all sorts of fucked up in like sixty seconds. I'm hoping I can get them both regulated on the new food concoction as soon as possible, but I'm not going to push my limits with either one of them for fear of them totally rejecting the food entirely. Diva did that with her wet food for awhile--she decided she didn't like it with the stuff in it so I started feeding it to her straight up and she eventually rejected that, too. Frustrating, and there's not a whole helluva lot of kidney failure friendly foods out there to offer up if they reject something.
Le sigh. Calgon, take me away!!
Dr. D. thinks Jazz has the beginnings of megacolon, a condition wherein the colon expands after one too many bouts of being over stuffed with poo. This is likely related to her advanced age as well--she's only had two bouts of being extremely plugged (in the last week and a half, UGH) since I've had her so it's not because I've been remiss and let her linger too long all plugged up. There's a pill he wants to try for gut motility called cisapride, but damn! It's 56 bucks for a month's supply!! HOLY HANNAH!! :( He's decided to hold off for the current time, though because he knows I'm on a limited income and that I've put out for a ton of medical bills right now. If Jazz plugs up again, she's on it regardless, though.
Thankfully, though, Diva's showing no signs of megacolon. Dr. D. showed me what to look for in each of their xrays and Diva's colon is much tighter shaped than Jazz's is. Not that Jazz's is really huge or anything, but it's definitely stretched and different looking than Diva's.
He wants me to start introducing Miralax and baby food squash into Jazz's food in particular and Diva's secondarily. The Lactulose just isn't strong enough to cut it on its own right now. The Miralax is a stool softener I used to give Diva last year until she started rejecting her food when it was mixed in. I've been slowly reintroducing it, though and up until she barfed her dinner after she got back home she was tolerating it just fine. I put some in Jazz's food tonight and she only ate about half of what she normally eats. :/ Could be rejecting the Miralax, but I think she's still so stressed out from her day today that played more of a hand in things. We shall see.
So that's that. I am SO STRESSED out right now about my girls. They go from being relatively okay to all sorts of fucked up in like sixty seconds. I'm hoping I can get them both regulated on the new food concoction as soon as possible, but I'm not going to push my limits with either one of them for fear of them totally rejecting the food entirely. Diva did that with her wet food for awhile--she decided she didn't like it with the stuff in it so I started feeding it to her straight up and she eventually rejected that, too. Frustrating, and there's not a whole helluva lot of kidney failure friendly foods out there to offer up if they reject something.
Le sigh. Calgon, take me away!!
