Suzanne

Sorry I missed Thursday night. I realized I had more to do than originally thought I had to do to get ready and I was tired from stress and work. Thank you for all the well wishes and concerns. Regarding Takoda, I’m still waiting for my vet to call or text me with the results of Takoda’s ultrasound. I don’t know if the lack of response from my vet is because she’s extremely busy, a possibility, as she’s the only vet at this practice or the specialist hasn’t sent her the results yet. I’m thinking might reach out to her on Monday, if I don’t hear from her first. Thankfully Takoda’s insurance paid for 90 % of his ultrasound. Kaylanee is not a big fan of the carrier and was moving around and pushing to get out. I had her on the floor in the back seat as I’d heard that was the safest place for them in the car. However at my first rest stop, I took her carrier and put it in the front with me. While she was still agitated it did calm her some as I was able to open the carrier a crack to put my hand in and pet her. She got sick 2x this morning on me and had diarrhea, the later she hasn’t has in a while despite her IBD, and of course she wasn’t interested in eating the vet food I put the cerenium/nausea meds in, she ate all her dry just fine, so I just left that food out for and it was gone when I got home from visiting my mom tonight. She also ate all her wet food tonight with no issues along with churro and treats so she seems to be feeling better. I’m thinking maybe the stress of the drive caused her nausea issues,so I may give her a cerenium before the drive back to Syracuse next Saturday. My visit with my mom today was good. She was in good form, happy and her memory was sharp, thankfully today, for the most part.

Takoda went for his abdominal ultrasound today and despite two Gabapentin, he still needed additional sedation. I found out that he needed to have a presedation exam because it’s the law when going to a new practice before they can do anything the animal must have an initial exam, even if he goes regularly to his own vet. The ultrasound Dr. will share results with my vet with in24 hours so hoping my vet will call/text me with results before I leave Friday for vacation. 🙏 Since they didn’t call me directly, whatever they found wasn’t a must treat ASAP. I think Takoda did better than his mom, as u was an emotional basket case. I think I was crying more than if I was saying goodbye to him. I’m just hoping the emotional roller coaster will be out of commission for a while because quite frankly, I’m tired of being on it.

Kaylanee update:
I was able to get Kaylanee into the vet on Saturday morning. I will as stressed and anxious to the max as, the vet tech took her immediately, after getting my update info. They were gone for what seemed like forever 20-30 minutes doing urinalysis and blood for full blood panel test. I was also freaking out because periodically I was hearing a cat loudly meowing and all I could think was I hope it’s not my cat. Vet finally came in and said he was very concerned as her urine was very diluted and feared her kidneys not properly doing their job. Any way great news all test results that were sent out came back negative. He has no idea why her urine was so diluted it since she’s acting “normal”, eating, active etc., and for a cat diagnosed with IBS, she’s been having normal formed bms. So I guess the b-12 injections and the biome food is working for her. Now to pray Takoda has a successful second attempt at his ultrasound tomorrow and that that will bring good news too. 🙏❤️🐾 Not sure if I’ll be able to make Thursdays group call as I’m leaving the next day to visit family in NH but please know I’m holding you all in thought and prayer.

Please pray for Kaylanee, she’s just recently started peeing outside the litter box litter box at least 2x that I found yesterday and once that I’m aware of this morning. She’s pooping in the litter box. I called vet and tech said to monitor her for any other behavioral changes, eating, lethargy, drinking, etc., I do have appointment for Thursday June 18 and will call before that if needed. My PTSD , from loosing all my 4 babies between March 28-January 26, is starting to kick in and my emotions are all over the place right now. It feels like a repeat of last December, the week before I was leaving for vacation, my 92 year old mother fell, my friend’s husband died the same day, suddenly and I lost my Freyja, unexpectedly on December 17. At least this time it’s only animal -and car issues but I’m
Not sure how much more I’m able to handle.

I took Takoda in for his outpatient ultrasound this morning, at Vetrinary Medical Center, which is also the ER hospital for the area. I had given him
the gabapentin, 2hours prior, as instructed. I told them if he needed more sedation, that was ok, I was willing to pay for it. About 10 minutes later they bring him back out telling me they were unable to do it because he was to wiggly I suspected they’d need to give him additional sedation. They told me I’d have to reschedule, as they needed an urgent care doctor and they didn’t have one today. So as she gave me some dates all of which were my 12 1/2 hour work days. So I said what about a Monday, Wednesday or Friday, the urgent care vet is only there on specific days I was told. Mind you this is also an ER vet and a specialty vet. My question. Is why can’t the ultrasound vet administer a sedation injection? Then I read the confirmation email they sent me and in addition to the 515$ for the ultrasound, they want to charge me an additional 186.00 for the sedation exam plus the cost of the meds, not to mention I have to take time off from work both Monday and Tuesday, as he needs to fast from 6:00 on and I don’t get home from work until 9:00 Monday nights., thid whole experience is just maddening and just insane, thst they need a sedation consult why not just ask for and look over his vet records??? He’s in good health per the most recent blood test, on May 15. It’s not even the money that I’m concerned about the insurance will most likely cover it , it’s just the face that they’re a specialist place but don’t have a regular vet on staff to help out PRN, for situations like this, because I’m sure, I’m not the first nor will I be the last to have this occur. My two Vetrinary practices are far more competent and helpful than this place is, and Takoda’s vet only has one vet that works at the practice. 😡😡😾

Takoda’s blood tests came back from his annual blood exam visit and his organ function is good but his infection fighting skills have decreased , probably from his irritable bowel disorder I’m going to start him on B-12 injections because my vet said it can’t hurt him. She’s also going to call in an ultrasound referral to my other vet, who has an ultrasound Dr. on premises 1 or 2x per week, as I’m concerned that he may possibly have cancer due to IBD, which hopefully since he hasn’t been officially diagnosed with IBD, the insurance hopefully will cover it. 🙏🙏🙏Either way I want to know one way or the other if he possibly has cancer and if he does hopefully it will be caught early and is treatable. I’d rather be proactive with his health than increase my PTSD, from saying goodbye to one more fur child. 4 in the past 14 months and 7 in the past 4 years was more than sufficient. It’s tough enough that it would have been Kalina’s 1year gotcha day this past May 3rd and she’s gone and May 19 was Morgaine’s 21st heavenly birthday and tomorrow is Spirit’s 4th heavenly birthday. My heart is already heavy with grief and memories of those I’ve said good bye to, I’m not ready to have to say goodbye bye to my Takoda anytime soon. Prayers to all those especially Bernie who are grieving the loss of a beloved pet. May all grieving feel God’s loving healing embrace.

Kaylanee went for her recheck from her dental surgery on April 9, last Thursday April 30 and was told her mouth was looking good and that she healed well. She will however have to have her teeth regularly checked, due to the tooth autoimmune disease, that she has which causes the tooth/root to self absorb. I’m just happy that her quality of life has improved tremendously since I adopted her almost 3 months ago. She is such a sweet loving little girl, who especially likes to lay on me or next to me under the covers, when I go to bed at night. I’m so thankful, that I chose to adopt her, even with all the debt she’s put me in with all her health issues. I hope everyone else is doing well. Bernie, how are your cats doing? Diane how is Lincoln doing and how are you doing? Praying for everyone and their beloved pets.