Let’s hear it for the poison!
The lab results finally came back this morning for Isis. It looks like she does not have FIP and does/did have a raging infection that either caused or was caused by the fluid build-up. So thank bejeezus she got a shot of long-lasting antibiotics Thursday night and we’ve been giving her amoxicillin since Saturday. She has a follow-up appointment Tuesday afternoon so we can talk over the results with the vet we trust—not the one who didn’t offer to help her breathe on Friday.
So this is good. There are still unknowns, but bacteria can at least be smacked into submission for the short term. I really liked what my friend Amber said:
I know what it’s like to hope for one bad instead of another. “He could have been poisoned, which, in theory, might improve, or have chronic kidney disease…which will just keep getting worse.”
“Um….let’s hear it for the poison!?!”
Isis has been eating more and gaining her strength back. She also starts purring practically every time we look at her, which is not typical behavior for her, but will make the pending credit card statement a little easier to bear. She’s actually on my lap right now, awake but relaxed, with her head resting on my forearm and making typing an awkward task for me.
These are some photos from February 2009 since I’m really behind in uploading photos. I look forward to taking more of her in a happy and honor-my-every-whim mood after she regains her health yet again. I’m just a helpless puddle of amateur photographer when she starts posing like this in the sunlight.
She must be purring because she is SO thankful for you helping her! And maybe she doesn’t want you to worry anymore.
Wow, what a pretty cat!
My Jake is an Egyptian Mau (and a rescue cat, actually… we figured out his breed off a Cats 101 show). And yeah, I know the whole cat+typing routine all too well.