There seems to be a few issues with the bandwidth around here. It appears that it has something to do with the countless spam upon the comments within these entries. To troubleshoot, I’m going to turn off commenting on all entries. We’ll see how it does, and hopefully things will get better around here.
Thanks again for all those who express concern with our Sunny.
These last few days have been the hardest of my, and I’m sure your, life. Nothing is worse than being told that your 2 year old baby might not live… then that he might live…. then he might not…over and over again. At first I was praying that you did not have FIP, which is fatal. Once we heard that the specialists didn’t think you did, I was beyond relieved. I thought that any other illness you had you could fight. All I thought all weekend was God, please let it be anything but FIP.
Though we haven’t done a spinal tap to rule out FIP, the vets know you have pancreatitis and that your digestive system has been paralyzed. You have not eaten since Thursday and as of today you have not gotten any better. I just keep hoping that at any minute your fevers will stop and you will stop throwing up so you will eat. Today it feels like the relief we had from thinking you didn’t have FIP has disappeared in knowing that we can lose you from pancreatitis.
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this and it just makes me angry. You are the most wonderful cat, as well as living thing, in the world. How could this happen to you? And to know that pancreatitus could be something ENTIRELY unrelated to your seizures makes me even madder. Haven’t you been through enough the past several months? No 2 year old cat deserves to die, especially not you.
I just hope you know how much we love you and understand that you’re in the hospital to get better. We need you and Macky certainly needs you. I hope you don’t give up on yourself and you keep fighting this. You need to come home, you need to see that life can be good again.
Love,
Momma
Sunny is still in the hospital. We’re told his temperature has returned to normal and has stayed that way all day. We’re also told he hasn’t vomited since early Monday morning. This is a huge step for Sunny, but we still have very far to go. We really need to get him to eat. Sunny hasn’t done so since Thursday night, and by not eating, we’re possibly getting ourselves into more issues. We’re hopeful, though, with these baby steps today (no fever, not throwing up), he’ll make the progression into eating. Sunny eating would be absolutely huge.
It’s been a rough few days for everyone. Rebecca and I took off work today to try to gain some much needed strength. For the most part, it helped, but we’re still very concerned for our Sunny. I cannot even imagine what’s going through Sunny’s mind through all of this. They hospital says he’s not in too much pain, but more like a discomfort. But to be away from home, away from your parents, and your crazy brother and sister? That must be very scary for him. I know he’s in great hands right now, but we still want to try to go visit him either tomorrow or Wednesday.
Macky has missed his brother big time. I don’t want to say he’s depressed, but he definitely looks for his brother from time to time. He’ll just walk around the place meowing over and over again. Macky knows his brother’s missing; he knows there’s something wrong. Macky slept with me on the couch today, as in actually fell asleep in my lap. This is something he NEVER does. It made me really happy, almost like he was comforting me. He was purring up a storm, too, so I’m sure he felt comfort as well. I cannot wait to reunite the both of them; they’re going to be so incredibly happy.
Thanks for everyone’s concern these last few days — all of your thoughts and prayers do mean a lot to us.
I had to delete a ton of comments from the database this evening. We were overflowed with spam in the comments and I believe it was causing the error messages as of late. I apologize to those who left legitimate comments.
On our way home from Ohio on Sunday, we picked up our three kids (cats for those who don’t appreciate pets as your own kids) from my parents. We had dropped them off on Thursday night to stay the weekend. The boys didn’t really socialize and seemed a bit puzzled by their new, but temporary, surroundings. Mowie, on the other hand, acted like she was there all along.
When we got home and began to carry the kids up the stairs in their carriers, Sunny began to have a seizure. I quickly opened the carrier, at which point Macky went flying out. Poor little Sunny came slowly out of the carrier; shaking and paddling like crazy. He quickly found a corner in the hallway and shoved his head in there (he does this whenever he has a seizure). Within a couple seconds, his breathing turned somewhat normal and his body stopped shaking. But with a blink of an eye, Sunny went right back into another seizure.
We brought him immediately upstairs to our place to make sure he was okay. Unfortunately, he bit his tongue pretty badly again, so we opted to rush him to the emergency room. It turned out that the poor guy actually punctured his tongue and his tooth was sticking right through it. He’s now on antibiotics to help with the healing and making sure it doesn’t become infected.
The emergency vet kept him overnight to run a few tests that we haven’t done yet. We’re still waiting on those results. However, they did start him on seizure medication — something he’ll have to possibly take for the rest of his life.
We’re planning on taking Sunny to see a neurologist one of these days. Hopefully with the results of these new tests, and a few tests from the neurologist, we’ll be able to pinpoint why this all occurring.
Sunny is pretty much back to his normal self. He’s still a little confused and clumsy due to the medication, but that will fade away in a few weeks time. It’s so sad that this happens to our Sunny, but it’s certainly good to see that he bounces back relatively quickly.
Macky, on the other hand, is still a bit scared of his brother since the seizure (Macky was in the same carrier as him). He’ll growl and hiss whenever Sunny comes near, which is incredibly sad as parents. But his fear seems to be decreasing a bit and tonight was a huge improvement from last night. I’m sure after a couple days Macky will realize that Sunny is no threat and they’ll go back to being best buds.