She wasn't acting as if she was feeling poorly until Tuesday last week, when she didn't eat all her dinner, even after I'd arranged it the way she liked several times. (There's a whole story there.) Then last Wednesday evening she left about half of it. Thursday I called the regular vet, just to have her checked out. I had no idea something serious might be going on.

They didn't have any open appointments until this Tuesday (yesterday) but advised me not to wait, to take her to the emergency vets and have this checked out now. So off we went to the emergency vets, and.. after a couple of x-rays and blood work.. and then an ultrasound.. that's when the news came out.

We came home with a steroid suspension for me to give her some every day.. and an appetite stimulant pill.. and a can of A/D which supposedly is meant for cats to like. Well, she didn't like that, didn't like anything I offered her that evening. She's been eating better since then, so I think (hope) she was just unwinding from all the stuff that day, the blood work and x-rays and ultrasound AND an enema and then some sub-Q fluids, and then that evening a squirt of the steroid.

The next day (last Friday), I went shopping at Petco and Kroger, buying all kinds of kitty junk food, Fancy Feast and Friskies and Meow Mix and store brands and such, that I hoped she might find yummy-licious. No need for the organic, grain-free, gluten-free, yada-yada, stuff at this point... She gobbled up her Friskies Chicken & Tuna Pate Dinner that evening, and she's been eating fine since. Tonight she got some tasty Trader Joe's Ocean Fish, Salmon & Rice Dinner, which she ate right up.

I gave her an appetite stimulant pill the first night but haven't needed to since then. She's getting her steroid suspension squirts each evening.

She moves around just fine when she feels like moving around, and she jumps up on my bed with no trouble. And she loves it, as she has been, when I lean down and rest my head along her side and pet her and breathe some warm air into her fur... she purrrs away!

So we're hanging in there!..