I'm crying as I post this. She got sq fluids yesterday about 10 hrs ago and she's not dehydrated yet, but she can't eat.
She vomits everything she eats and she only peed once yesterday.
I have zofran for myself, so I've been giving her 1mg every 8-15 hrs and it does stop the vomiting, but she's stopped eating.
The last thing she ate was yesterday and she vomited it up because I had waited to give her another zofran dose, to see if her stomach had settled.
She hasn't held down food in a couple of days, except for 1 churro. Now, she's refusing churos.
She didn't want to walk around last night because she was hurting. If I touched her (except her head) she was doing little angry mews, and she had the kitty pain grimace. 😭
It broke my heart, so, I gave her a cat dose of gabapentin and it helped.
This morning she got up and walked around! But she only walked to go sit in front of her food bowl and stare 😭
She refused a churo right now. I went ahead and gave her zofran because it was due a few hours ago and she might try to eat.
The cheapest vet ($19.95 visit for 1st visit) can't see her til Thursday. Every other vet charges $60 and up and they're all also booked til Thursday. Last night I called an emergency vet and they wanted $200 to walk in the door 😡
Before I became completely disabled (am applying for disability) and was still working, she went to Blue Cross Clinic once for a bladder infection, so I called them.
They would not print up an estimate for her until they see her, though they did say that they could print up the estimate for the visit alone, which is $65.
We don't have enough gas to go there twice, so I set the earliest appointment for her which is at 3pm today.
We're going to pull the money from our electricity bill fund. We can't afford x-rays or bloodwork because $65 is max and we can't even afford that, tbh.
But at least we'll get an estimate for what the vet thinks she needs and I can post it here.
Maybe, it's better she doesn't go to ACE? It's really cheap but the vet man-handles cats and she's in a lot of pain.
She's the sweetest girl. She was a feral for 5 years and she was constantly bullied by cats outside, but it took me 2 years to acclimate her to spending longer and longer times inside.
Mittens became an indoor cat 1-1/2 years ago. The first 6 months she chewed the fur off a spot on her belly from the stress. But now her fur is fine 💗
Mittens got me through the loss of my heart dog, yorkie Phoebe, 4 almost 5 years ago. She's so loved here.
Please, send healing and loving thoughts and prayers. 🕯🕯🙏🙏
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