I Love Good News April 6, 2006
Last December my sweet kitty, Muffy, was diagnosed with renal insufficiency. It freaked me the hell out given the fact that it was just months after we had lost Dixie to renal failure.
The plan was to put her on special prescription food and retest her levels in a month. We’ve had a hard time with the new food system. She still wakes me up at least once or twice a night, but things are better since we started leaving out canned food at bed time.
Her little body had a hard time transitioning to the new food, and as a result we had to take her off of it and reintroduce it. Then we had to switch to a different brand altogether and introduce that very slowly. Her body is finally doing ok with it as long as I mix a little bit of her old food in with the prescription food.
With all of the food issues, the month wait to retest turned into four. I took her to the vet yesterday to have her kidney function levels run again. It was not a fun experience for our little princess. She was terrified, but she behaved very well. I think she was too scared for the alternative. We found out that she’d lost half a pound since December so that made me nervous. The vet said it could be a result of the change in food, though.
While we were there the vet also gave her a subq fluid treatment in case that was our next step. I was really afraid that it would be.
This morning the vet called with her blood test results and her levels have remained stable since December. Woo hoo! This is good news. He said just to keep doing what we’re doing. We don’t have to start her on the fluids yet. We go back in 6 weeks to have her numbers checked again.
This makes all of the sleepless nights worth it. I’m just so glad that she’s not getting worse yet. I know that day is coming, but I’m just not ready for it right now.
So, yay! My little princess is hanging in there.
- Posted in : my furry children
- Author : amanda
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yay for Muffy and Miss Crankypants!!!
That’s great, great news!!!
That’s great :)
So glad she’s doing well!
Yay! Muffy deserves hugs and kisses! And mommy deserves a pound of fudge for her good efforts..and if mommy doesn’t want the fudge, she can ship it to me.
Now that’s so good to hear. Yeah Muffy.
Now that is good news. Yay Muffy! So glad the sleepless nights paid off.
wtg Muffy! really thrilled for you Amanda I know I know it’s muffy with the stablised counts but hey your her proud furmum and I bet it feels dang good to know she’s going to be around awhile longer :o)
Whew. What a relief! When I started reading your post, I was holding my breath there for a few minutes because, like an idiot, I didn’t read your title line first. I’m really glad your efforts are actually paying off. And, it’s so nice to actually get some good news for a change.
Kobi got sick again at the beginning of the week so I actually had to leave him overnight at the vet’s for observation Mon. I’ve never done that before and it near killed me. He was so scared. I could feel his little heart racing. I was crying as we left. The people who work there probably though I was crazy! I think he is slowly getting better again but we don’t know what is causing these episodes and that’s what scares me. On top of that the vet noticed a heart murmur. She needs to check to see if it’s still there next week….thinks it might just be because he was so petrified. So, now I’m in a complete panic. I don’t think I could ever handle losing him….much less when he is only 5. :(
So glad Muffy is well!!! Yeah for test being okay.
Well nice to hear a good news story for once. Long my she continue to beat this problem!
I am so glad to read about how well Muffy is doing. I love to read good/happy posts from you :-d Am very glad!!!! I really hope many happy posts will follow….
Take care!
N