Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Thankful Thursday and a Tylan Update
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Thankful Thursday on a Friday Plus an Update on Tylan
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Tylan's Hospitalization So Far
Hi everyone! The Mom here today. I thought you all might like an update on how Tylan is faring.
On Thursday, when he was admitted to the hospital, his creatinine and BUN were incredibly high - 12.1 and 140, respectively.
In the wee hours on Friday, I called to check on Tylan, and his overnight vet tech told me he had eaten half a can of k/d! He had hardly been eating anything here at home, so I was both shocked and pleased. She told me he was sleeping at the time and he had been sleeping for a couple of hours. I was glad that he felt safe enough to get some rest. He needed it.
On Friday morning, Tylan's Internal Medicine vet called me (yes, she works at the hospital I took him to - I chose this hospital partly for that reason). She told me his creatinine had only gone down to 11.5. She sounded doubtful that they could get his creatinine much lower and began talking about quality of life.
Needless to say, my mind was reeling. I was in shock. Numb. This had all happened so fast. I just couldn't believe it.
I visited Tylan on Friday night. He was obviously happy to see me, but he looked so small and weak. He wanted me to hold him forever. I held him for a while and talked to him. He was quite fascinated by the IV/infusion machine on the top of his cage that is constantly running.
Friday, January 17, 2025
Tylan Urgently Needs Purrs and Prayers
As many of you know, Tylan has been really strugging since
the beginning of December, 2024. At that time, his labs confirmed that he was
having an acute bout of pancreatitis (he has chronic pancreatitis that flares
every little bit). We also found out at that time that he had gone from stage 2
kidney disease (where he’d been stable for 3 years) to mid stage 3 kidney
disease.
At the end of December, 2024, Tylan continued to struggle
with his pancreatitis, and his labs showed that he had moved into late stage 3
kidney disease. Given that there were only 3 weeks between his two sets of
labs, I was disturbed by the increase in his kidney values. But the
veterinarians at his clinic didn’t seem too concerned about it. At that time,
we decided to put him on subcutaneous fluids every other day and to get him
through his acute bout of pancreatitis and start him on a renal diet once he
felt better.
On December 30, 2024, Tylan was feeling so crummy that in
lieu of acupuncture, his vet took blood work and an x-ray (to see if he was
constipated as I hadn’t seen him poop lately). Tylan WAS, in fact, pretty
constipated. Long story short, he ended up going back to the vet on January 2
to have an enema because the lactulose and miralax weren’t relieving the
constipation.
Tylan had been eating less at the end of December as well.
We all hoped that the constipation was the key – relieve the constipation and
he might want to eat more.
Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Kiss a Ginger Cat Day
Hi everybody!
Do you know what today be? It's Kiss a Ginger Cat Day! And as luck would have it, ME is a ginger cat. So, if you don't have a ginger cat to kiss, you can blow me some. Me will happily accept all the kisses you want to give!