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With the maximum 6cc dose of Lactulose, we've managed to get some action in the downloads department; overnight he left us a present and he left us another good one after he ate his breakfast/got his AM 3cc dose. Very good news, indeed. Wish it was there was an easier way, though--Lars (like Ra, Diva, and Jazz before him) HATES getting dosed with Lactulose with a passion and fights J like a little tiger. Scratched up J a pretty good one this morning, in fact, which sucked. :/
Mirtazepine day today (that's the appetite stimulant that's dosed every third day), and it'll take awhile to kick in. Again, All Hail Pill Pockets! So easy to pill a willing cat with those things! :) Again, Lars just gobbled his pill down, no muss no fuss. :) Fed him his breakfast before it kicked in, though, so lackluster breakfast eatings were to be had. :/ Oh wells, just means we'll have to try feeding him again later in the day after it's kicked in and he's started acting all buggy from the med. He ate enough of his wet food to get the 1/2 teaspoon of Benefiber down the hatch and that's my bigger concern right now, so...yeah...
Called VCA Aurora internal medicine with a few questions I had; some were about the patient summary I got for Lars yesterday, most were surrounding how much I should do to entice him to eat. I asked about the kidney data on the ultrasound section of the report; was told the findings could be of congenital nature, something that he's always lived with and that he functions fine with how they're formed, or that they degenerated for some reason and it's something to be of concern. The good news is the blood flow to the kidneys had to be good, otherwise it would've been noted in the summary and it would've been investigated further, so that's a good sign right there. Basically to know more we have to wait for the blood work to come back to see if he's got impaired kidney function; thus far with his past chemistry panels he's had done his kidney values have always come back normal, so I'm not terribly worried about that changing.
Next we talked about diet. Lars' appetite remains lackluster, largely we think because he's still fighting off nausea, so we talked about conservative and safe ways to entice Lars to eat more. Got told the standards--tuna in water, boiled chicken, senior and adult gushy fud. Lars used to get and LOVE Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers fud, but we stopped giving it to him because 1) it tended to give him the trots and 2) Dorene wouldn't touch the stuff and we were looking for a gushy fud that both of them would like so they could share tins of the stuff. Tech said to go ahead and try the Gravy Lovers with him again, so it'll be off to the PetSmart for us for a gushy fud run later today.
So, doing marginally better or at least holding his own and not getting any worse. That's about all we can ask for, and take things as they come...a day at a time...
Sigh. Poor fuzzy fella! :/
Mirtazepine day today (that's the appetite stimulant that's dosed every third day), and it'll take awhile to kick in. Again, All Hail Pill Pockets! So easy to pill a willing cat with those things! :) Again, Lars just gobbled his pill down, no muss no fuss. :) Fed him his breakfast before it kicked in, though, so lackluster breakfast eatings were to be had. :/ Oh wells, just means we'll have to try feeding him again later in the day after it's kicked in and he's started acting all buggy from the med. He ate enough of his wet food to get the 1/2 teaspoon of Benefiber down the hatch and that's my bigger concern right now, so...yeah...
Called VCA Aurora internal medicine with a few questions I had; some were about the patient summary I got for Lars yesterday, most were surrounding how much I should do to entice him to eat. I asked about the kidney data on the ultrasound section of the report; was told the findings could be of congenital nature, something that he's always lived with and that he functions fine with how they're formed, or that they degenerated for some reason and it's something to be of concern. The good news is the blood flow to the kidneys had to be good, otherwise it would've been noted in the summary and it would've been investigated further, so that's a good sign right there. Basically to know more we have to wait for the blood work to come back to see if he's got impaired kidney function; thus far with his past chemistry panels he's had done his kidney values have always come back normal, so I'm not terribly worried about that changing.
Next we talked about diet. Lars' appetite remains lackluster, largely we think because he's still fighting off nausea, so we talked about conservative and safe ways to entice Lars to eat more. Got told the standards--tuna in water, boiled chicken, senior and adult gushy fud. Lars used to get and LOVE Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers fud, but we stopped giving it to him because 1) it tended to give him the trots and 2) Dorene wouldn't touch the stuff and we were looking for a gushy fud that both of them would like so they could share tins of the stuff. Tech said to go ahead and try the Gravy Lovers with him again, so it'll be off to the PetSmart for us for a gushy fud run later today.
So, doing marginally better or at least holding his own and not getting any worse. That's about all we can ask for, and take things as they come...a day at a time...
Sigh. Poor fuzzy fella! :/
