r/rescuecats • u/Mithandriel APPROVED FOR DONATION REQUESTS • Oct 07 '24
Amazon Wish List A Vent and please send Love ❤️ and Healing Thoughts and Prayers for Beautiful Mittens
Hi Friends, I hope you're all doing well. 💗
This weekend was rough for me and the kitties.
My joints have been on fire since Friday night and all I can do is rest and use a heated blanket to help the pain and Colitis pain (even though it's 90+F outside).
Ever since Amy scratched my arm badly a few weeks ago, my immune system has kicked into overdrive and tanked me into one severe, ongoing flare.
I know it's because of the autoimmune issues and due to no longer being on a biologic.
My flares feel similar to having the flu plus severe fatigue and the colitis. Unlike the flu, there aren't any respiratory symptoms (thank goodness).
This is a frequent occurrence, but the symptoms usually last 2-3 days, not usually 2 weeks.
I'm also upset over not having been able to do much over the last 2 weeks.
Olivia and Poptart need more socializing with humans, and the 2 colonies we've been working with, have cats that need trapping.
I've only been able to do the bare minimum with the kitties under this roof for now.
It's hard to not feel down and sometimes cry.
We haven't found Ollie yet, and I really miss Archie and Kit-Kat 😭 and hope they're being loved and taken care of by their adopters.
To add more stress to the mix, Mittens vomited a few times yesterday. It was mostly stomach acid. We're worried and don't know what's wrong.
She's mostly acting normal, except for a diminished appetite.
I've been giving her Kitten-Lyte every few hours.
Last night I gave her a cat dose of zofran and it stopped the vomiting.
I just gave her another dose and some more Kitten-Lyte (she hates it 😹)
I wish we knew what was wrong. Wish we had $ to take her to a vet.
Hopefully, it's not her urinary problems again.
ACE Veterinary is the cheapest clinic locally but they're closed today. A 1st patient exam there is $19.95, so tomorrow I'll call to see if Mittens can get an appointment, and an estimate for treatment.
Mittens was a stray for 5 years. She's been an indoor rescue now for about 1-1/2 to 2 years. She's the sweetest cat 💗
I texted my contact with SAFCC (San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition) yesterday and today, to see if she can help Mittens, but she hasn't responded back. She might be out of town or extremely busy helping trap kittens and cats from all over.
On a whole other note, I'm sorry to bother you kind folks again, but these sweet kitties need cat litter and meds 💊 for tapeworms. Poor Mitties (Mittens) also needs ear mite meds.
We appreciate everything you do to help the 2 colonies we're working to completely spay and neuter.
We've spayed/nuetered about 19 kittens and cats since Spring from those 2 colonies and we've also been fostering 7 kittens and a cat from the same colonies.
We also appreciate all the help you send for the kitten and cat fosters and resident rescues under our roof. Right now, we have 9.
Please send healing, protective thoughts and prayers for both Mittens and Ollie. 🕯🕯🙏🙏
Thank you for all your love ❤️ for Pepsi's Friends.
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u/Mithandriel APPROVED FOR DONATION REQUESTS Oct 07 '24
My friend with SAFCC just gave her sq fluids because she was slightly dehydrated.
Mittens has already perked up some!
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u/Best_VDV_Diver Oct 07 '24
Boost!
Hopefully they can figure out what's causing sweet Mittens problems.
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u/Mithandriel APPROVED FOR DONATION REQUESTS Oct 07 '24
yes, I hope she gets better soon, thank you! 🩷🌷
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u/Potential_Trifle1784 Oct 09 '24
Praying Ollie comes home safely!
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u/Mithandriel APPROVED FOR DONATION REQUESTS Oct 09 '24
Yes! We're so worried about the boy. No sightings of him, except the possible sighting a few days ago. I hope he's safe and well wherever he is and hope he can hang on until we find him🕯🕯🙏🙏 😭
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u/Mithandriel APPROVED FOR DONATION REQUESTS Oct 09 '24
*Update: Mittens ate 1-1/2 churus this morning! 🎉
She had 1 churu 2 hours ago and 1 churu just now! 🎉🎉
She's bright eyed and starting to walk around and little more. Mittens is resting on the pet heat pad in between her brief walks.♥️💜💗💛🩷🧡
So far, there hasn't been a sign of Ollie since the potential sighting a few days ago. Thank you for your 🕯🙏 for the boy. *
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