Please PRAY for my Panda!!! --- UPDATE - He's ALL BETTER NOW!!!

[kimlovescats]

Just got back home from today's vet visit. Overall things are positive, but he still won't eat or drink! Here is the scoop:

His PCV (Packed Cell Volume) blood test is up from 26 to 31 ... normal range starts at 35, so that is doing much better!

His temperature is down from 104.5 to 101.2 ... which is also normal, again that's great!

Doc Williams did a blood panel also to check his liver, kidneys and one other thing but I can't remember. Everything was great on that too ... all in the normal ranges! WONDERFUL NEWS!

He got quite a bit more fluids today, and is to continue his antibiotics and start on the Pet-tinic vitamins as well. He has a new can of "Recovery" food to try, but of course he won't eat it either! So, it is back to the forcefeeding. Thankfully he doesn't fight me too much on that, and will swallow and keep it down. I just hope that eventually his appetite will pick back up!!!!

Oh, Doc felt his belly and he felt no blockages and he did feel poop in his lower bowel, so everything seems "ok" there as well. Guess he just hasn't eaten enough to produce a BM in the past couple of days.

They still can't rule out the dry form of FIP though. It's one of those things they can't ever confirm for sure until it is deadly obvious! So, as any catmom would be, I am still worried in the depths of my mind and heart. I am just trying to focus on all of the good reports we got today and work on getting him to eat and drink again. I think if he will do that, then my worries will for the most part, go away.

I'll post updates daily until this is all resolved!

Thanks, everyone!

Kim

[kuhio98]

Kim ~ Still saying my nightly prayers for you and Panda. Hoping nothing serious is wrong and that Panda is just another one of those Medical Mystery Kitties.

[kittycats_delight]

Kim, I am keeping you and precious Panda in my thoughts and prayers. I hope that boys starts to eat soon and you can figure out what exactly is ailing him.

((((HUGS)))) to you both.
Michelle

[phesina]

We are sending more prayers and healing energies..

Have you and your vet tried an appetite-stimulant with Panda? We use one sometimes at the shelter called cypro-heptadine (something like that).

Love, hugs, and purrs,
Pat and cats

[Medusa]

Have you and your vet tried an appetite-stimulant with Panda? We use one sometimes at the shelter called cypro-heptadine

Yes, you might want to give that a try w/your vet's ok. It sure worked w/my Puddy after her kidney was removed.

[catfamily]

Kim I am so sorry i didn't see this earlier.Of course I am saying bigtime prayes for your dear Panda.
Maybe he just needs the full course of antibitics and sometimes they need stronger antibiotics or just on it for 4 full weeks.
i'm hoping that is all he needs...unless he swallowed something that wasn't food...or a plant?
I don't know...Prayers on the way.I am so sorry for your worrys.I wish I could help more.

I just talked with Mike and he was reminding me of when our big Monty(maincoon) had a 106 temp out of the blue one late morning.I swear he looked fine before it and i never noticed this coming on...Mike called me in and said Monty didn't look right.So i took his temp...freaked when i saw it called the vet while mike was putting him in the car...The vet gave him fluids and took xrays...and gave us azithromyicin for 3 or 4 weeks...i kept giving him fluids for 5 days...his temp went down the very first day at the vets when he was rushed in.
Till this day I still do not know WHY he was sick.
He has been fine ever since.
I think that was a few months ago.
I hope Panda will be ok...VERY soon for you Kim.I know how much you love him.

[Emeraldgreen]

One of my cats who at the time was an indoor/outdoor girl became quite ill a few years ago and she vomitted for 2 days and then became very listless. I got her to the vet and they said she was going into hypothermia. They put her on warm fluids and rushed some blood off to the lab. Her white cell count was through the roof but they couldn't find what was causing her problem. They did multiple in clinic tests for different cat diseases that all came back negative. They did xrays, an abdominal ultrasound and then exploratory surgery a few days later when she wasn't getting any better. They even opened her bladder because they thought they saw something on the ultrasound that looked a little suspicious. Turned out to be nothing. They decided to put her on an antibiotic drip at the hospital because they didn't really know what else to do and she began to slowly come around. I took her home and continued the antibiotics for the next 2 weeks and she was back to normal. They never did figure out what had made her become so sick. Thankfully, years later she hasn't had another occurance like that.
It sure is strange to read about all the posts regarding 'mystery illnesses' and cats. In any case, I hope your Panda starts eating soon and that he is back to his old self ASAP.