Sydney wobbling: Diarrhea gone, doing much better! (see #55)

[phesina]

This morning he was lethargic and still didn't want food. I didn't give him his steroid dose in case that might have something to do with this.

I went to work at the shelter at 7:00am. At 9:30 I called Dr. Bill and told him what was going on. He thought it was very likely a reaction to the large steroid dose (Pred oral suspension, 10mg/ml, dosage 1ml every 12 hours). I told him I hadn't given Sydney the morning dose, so Dr. Bill said "Give it to him now (you can't just go cold turkey on pred), and if he's still the same in another day or two I'd like to see a stool sample." I told him I'd brought one with me this morning in case he'd like to see it, so he said he would.

I went home and gave Sydney 1/2 ml of the Pred. At this point he seemed more alert and on the ball than he had earlier, so I gave him a small dish of warmed-up wet food, half KD with Chicken and the other half some real yummy nom-noms (Friskies and Fancy Feast). He wolfed it all down!

So I went back to the shelter (dropping off the stool sample on the way), finished up about 2pm, and came back home. Sydney looked about the same, so I gave him some more food, this time all kidney food. He didn't eat this quite as enthusiastically, but he did eat most of it.

Dr. Bill is going to call later with the results of the stool sample check.