She’s home, but she’s not all better by any means.
We tried doing her subcutaneous fluids for the first time on our own this morning and didn’t do very well only getting a little bit into her. I did some studying and know what I was doing wrong so we’ll take another crack at it tonight.
She’s still weak and sluggish. She’s sleeping a lot. We haven’t seen her drink water at all, though with all the fluids she’s been getting directly she may just not be thirsty. She’s been eating a tiny bit of the k/d (kidney diet) food we got. We haven’t quite figured out how to feed both of them since Theo will eat that too (though he’s currently turning up his nose at almost everything) and then we can’t tell whether Alice is eating or not. Becky got some food samples from our vet today and let Alice check them all out. While she seemed interested in food in principle (came over when Beck was dishing up the samples) she doesn’t find any of them appealing enough to actually eat some.
She’s breathing a little faster than normal, but the vet suggested that might be to compensate for the anemia.
In some ways this is harder than when she was in the hospital since we have to interpret her actions, not really knowing what any of them may mean. We’re trying to be positive, but it’s pretty scary.
Theo is being a pill and hissing at her whenever she goes near him. He’s been spraying again too. No fun wanting to strangle one of your cats while struggling to keep the other one healthy. Sigh