I just wanted to let you all know that Crybaby has really perked up over the last 24 hours. She's been rubbing in between our legs and jumping on the counters again. (I never thought I'd be happy to have a cat jump on my counters). Everyday she's eating more and more on her own and I can feel her getting heavier. She's up and about and socializing with the other cats again. She had been hiding from them before.
She is scratching like mad at the bandage around her neck that keeps the feeding tube in. She does it a lot. She's already pulled out some fur on one side of her neck and I think a couple of the stitches for the feeding tube are out again too. If she pulls all the stitches out again I think they will just remove the tube. I hope she will keep it in for a least another week so I can get her antibiotics into her easily. She'll be done with those on Friday.
I don't know what to do about the scratching. I hate seeing her pull her fur out like that. I tried putting the e-collar on her that the vet gave me but she really doesn't like it. She flails her head around and keeps walking backwards and falls over. Plus she can still get to the bandage from behind the collar. I take the bandages off a couple times a day and let her neck breath and I give her neck scratches. I can't leave it off for long though because she'll be able to scratch the feeding tube right out so I have to stay with her.