Thursday June 12, 2008

Something that hurts is that I don't remember how I slept Wednesday night. Me and Oreo usually cuddle to each other but I don't remember if she was there or not, so I will never know if I had gotten to cuddle with her one last time!

My husband was up late on Wednesday night trying to fix and restore our desktop computer that had crashed a few days earlier, so I think we were up til around 3am. I don't think I woke up on Thursday til around maybe 11am or so. Thursday morning seemed pretty normal, except Oreo wasn't in bed with me when I woke up, but she did come up a little later and lay down, then I think she went into the closet to lay. She likes laying in the closet because the floor feels cold. I am sitting on my bed still and using the laptop to email my cousin at work, which we do almost everyday. As I was typing Oreo come out of the bathroom walking through the room and crouched down, walked again and crouched down, she did this one more time and I thought to myself "something is wrong with her". Then she walked a little more to the hallway and I noticed she was licking like crazy, so at this point I am getting really nervous. Then she starts shaking a little and then starts to throw up, and its really frothy. I felt a little better then thinking that all that was just to get herself ready to throw up, Cookie does weird stuff like that too, so I was thinking "oh ok, its fine".

Well she doesn't stop throwing up and if it were Cookie I wouldn't have worried because Cookie throws up all the time, but Oreo does not! All of a sudden she starts panting, and since cats don't pant unless they are hot or stressed that sent me into panic mode. I tried to wait to see if she would get better. She tried to walk down stairs but stopped on the landing to throw up again, and again it was really frothy and gooey. It was so gooey that's what was causing her to lick so much because it was all stuck in her mouth and on her lips. Then again she started panting and wouldn't stop, so I called the vet frantically to tell them I was bringing her up.

I was thinking a few tests some antibiotics and I would be taking her home for some rest, and I would kiss her better. I could never have been more wrong. Money is not an issue but instead of running a million tests at one time we started from the top and worked our way down. When my baby was pulled from her cage and put on the table she peed on herself, the vet said she might have been scared. Nope I know my baby and she would never pee on herself she is to clean, this is a cat that wont use a litter box that has been used just one time.

Her temperature was fine & she hasn't lost any weight. Her heart was beating a little fast but not to bad, but I am sure that's cause she was scared. But because of her panting she couldn't hear if she had a heart murmur. Dr. Simon wanted to start with chest & lung x-rays. I left her there all day until they closed because I wanted her in professional hands as long as possible. Dr. Simon called me to tell me the x-rays don't look bad but there is a little something in her lungs, and that she is not sure exactly what it is but that may not be what her problem is.

She gave her a antibiotic, a steroid, and I think an anti inflammatory, and also injected her with fluids that would release all night because she was a little dehydrated. And I came and picked her up. With all the stress and trying to get there on time, I forgot to bring her taxi, thank god they had one I could borrow.

When I got her home she just wasn't herself at all she stayed downstairs and laid by the stools and then she would go to the middle of the living room floor which really isn't but 5 steps way, but she laid back and fourth in these spots about ever few minutes she was never comfortable in one spot. She would not eat but did walk over to the bowl, but she would just fall down and lay there. She stood up and walked in front of the water bowl and just held her head over it, she wanted some so bad but just couldn't do it.

My sweet little girl tried her best to make it to the litter box when she had to pee but although she was in the litter box she was so close to the rim that she peed on the rim and it went all over the floor. She tried so hard to be good. But when I realized that she might have a bladder problem because I think Dr. Simon said she went on her self again while at the vets I figured as much as I don't want to leave her alone we need to run to Wal-Mart and get a mattress cover in case she does decided to sleep with us and there is a possibility she could wet the bed.

We did run real quick and get one and when we came back I saw she had peed by the wall by the door. It's a bit of a distance from the areas she was trying to stay in so I didn't think it was uncontrollable as having to get that far seemed a little thought out. I happily cleaned it up and tried to comfort her but she wasn't having it. I tried to lay down on the floor behind like we would in bed but she would just get up and move. She did not want to be bothered. She never did come sleep with us.

Although Dr. Simon said that one of the meds she gave her might make her a little sleepy, I honestly don't think she slept the entire night, I kept checking on her all night and I never once saw her close her eyes and she just kept moving to those two spots. Looking at her eyes was heartbreaking, you could see that she did not feel good.

My poor baby whenever she doesn't feel good she always lays by those stools until she is 100%.