Prayers for Ripley - He's Better! Update #95

[weluvcats]

The vet is afraid Ripley may have stomach ulcers due to the failure so I have to give him a slurry medication on an empty stomach twice a day to help heal them. Rip's weight is down almost two pounds but hopefully he will feel better and start eating. He gave Rip fluids and a B-12 shot.

We are to give him sub-q fluids here at home everyday for the next 3-4 plus he will get the slurry meds twice a day for 10 days. The vet said he's very hopefully we can get Ripley past this crisis but he said at first he really thought it was too late. Thank goodness the blood test numbers told a different story.

Please keep my old boy in your thoughts and prayers. He's not through this yet.

About Ripley's tummy problem...Cats with kidney failure often have an overacidic stomach related to their reduction of kidney function, which can lead to ulcers. Our vet here put our Billy on a quarter of a regular strength Pepcid tablet a day to help reduce the stomach acid, which likely contributed to Ripley's problem. Once his tummy improves, you might want to consider asking your vet about the Pepcid as a possible way to try to prevent this from happening again. It worked very well for Billy...He was on Pepcid every day for the last two years of his life, and it helped him enormously.

In the meantime, I'm sending hugs and prayers for your old boy.
Hang in there...

Judy

[Edwina's Secretary]

Once again....eat...Eat...EAT!!! Ripley...drink your slurrpie and EAT!