Please pray for Angel - update

[lizbud]

Wondering how Angel is doing? Hope the meds are helping her rest. I would think this condition could make a cat
or dog feel dizzy or experience nausea.

[Karen]

At least you knows she's healthy enough to talk back! Not that that makes medicating her any easier, but ...

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Wondering how Angel is doing? Hope the meds are helping her rest. I would think this condition could make a cat
or dog feel dizzy or experience nausea.

Angel and I thank everyone for their prayers and well wishes. She seems just the same as always: no better or worse. The med does seem to make her sleepy and she zonks out for a while after she gets it. She eats normally and plays with her lazer light and hisses and bites at the brush if I dare try to brush her.

Her eyes are still quivering though. I'm wondering if somehow they could have been doing that for a long time, maybe even since kitten hood. She has never had any trouble walking or seeing.

I keep wondering if she might be a bit nervous since Chip picks on her a lot. Well, he picks on all of them. He is the most ornery cat I've ever had. Right now even her mom growls and hisses at her. I'm thinking they might smell the med she is taking. It smells like cherries.

I did manage to get both doses down her today.

[maid25cats]

Prayers on the way for Angel and you too.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Thanks again everyone. Please keep the prayers coming. Her eyes seems to be a bit worse today. But that might be because I bug her every few minutes trying to look at them. As for her morning med, well, I just hope some of it got into her. She is a scrappy one!!! Really though, the only thing I've noticed it doing is make her sleepy. She still eats great and plays and acts normal except for her quivering eyeballs.

[Randi]

Oh, I hope Angel will be okay! It sounds like she is, eating fighting back and playing. What is the medicine suppose to do? How old is she now?

Sending lots of good wishes for your sweet girl - and you, too.

[momcat]

Please don't be upset with Meowmie, Angel. She loves you and wants to make you feel better with the medicine from the vet. Many prayers are coming from our house for you and your wonderful Meowmie from Soncat and me. Amigo is also sending you feel better purrs.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Well, I did get some of her med in her tonight, except for the drop she flung on my forehead. She is still spunky for sure. I'm not real sure what the med is supposed to do. I had a dog once that had convulsions. She was on that to try and stop those. I guess it effects the nerves somehow. It has not effected her eyes at all.

One of our PT members who is a nurse told me that in humans that condition is called nystagmus.
I looked it up and it can be congenital or acquired. If it effects cats the same way, she could have always had it. Since she never lets me hold her and seldom lets me pet her, I might not have noticed it. I'll be asking her vet about that when she goes back for a recheck in a couple of weeks.
Thanks again everyone.