Another trip to the ER

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:05:36 +0000, Brandy**Alexandre wrote:

Poor Kami, every say "awwwww." I got home yesterday and found her
scrunched up under the desk and practically screaming. I thought maybe
she had injured herself, but then I could see she was clamping at the tail
end. And she's never done this before--ever--but she got up and squatted
right there and passed two drops of bloody urine. Another infection, and
a bad one. She was fine when I left that morning.

If I had come straight home I could have taken her to her own vet, but
believe it or not I stopped there on my way to get a bag of k/d. There was
a wait and in that amount of time I would have gone home, found her, and
swept her off to the vet before they closed. Instead, we had to drive to
the more expensive ER, after, of course, she tried to take off my arm for,
first, touching her at all when she was so upset, and second, putting her
in the carrier.

Anyway, When we got to the vet, I told them that the last time what they
diagnosed as UTI was determined to be a kidney infection, and if they
can't get enough urine for a sample, to treat for kidney if only because
she tolerates the Baytril more than the Clavamox. I turned into one of
*those* parents.

In the end, and $255 later, she got a shot of antibiotics, a shot of
steroids, and sub-q. I actually asked them to do the sub-q even though it
was pricey because I just didn't want to be the bad guy last night. I was
concerned that we were going to have a food problem now and she would
really get into trouble, but when we got home, she was a lot more
comfortable and she snarfed her food.

Now I get to give her a pill everyday for two weeks. What fun.


Heartfelt purrs for Kami -- may she get a quick cure, poor baby! MLB