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Jericho Update March 27 [1]
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Date: 2023-03-28
Jericho imitating a cat faced calla lily
It has been a minute, sorry about that. I have been fighting off a miserable ear infection and got behind.
There has been stuff on the Jericho front. Note the new cone, this came about because he figured out how to squirm around enough to get at his incision while wearing the smaller cone. He managed to take out a stitch and make a fine mess in the midst of the night. So back to the vet he went, and came home with a new stitch, a new cone, and an antibiotic.
He had been doing wonderfully well until this past week. He has completely lost his appetite. At first we got him to eat by offering him duck, his very favorite food. Then he wouldn’t even eat that. Now we are feeding him with an oral syringe, one milliliter at a time, and tomorrow Daughter3 will stop at the vet on the way home and pick up a prescription of Entyce. Entyce is an appetite stimulant in cats and dogs. We hope this will put him back on track. Usually Jericho is one of those stupendously food reactive cats, seeing him like this is just terrifying.
He is still capable of smacking the kittens into next week when they try to catch his tail though!
March 28: I have an unfortunate update to my update.
Jericho passed away in the night, some hours after I wrote the above.
We have been baffled over how he seemed to be making a robust recovery, then just went downhill so very fast. I am going to talk to the vet because I am suspecting the antibiotic. I was suspecting it might be responsible for him losing his appetite, so I delved deeper for information, and found that he had every symptom of an adverse reaction (including depressed appetite) to it save one. Every single one of those adverse reactions is also typical in post-major surgery involving anesthesia though. As a human who has had major surgery I can attest that most of them cross species boundaries.
I do wish they could give you an information sheet with veterinary drugs like drugstores do with people drugs, but understand how difficult that could be with variation across species.
We wrapped him in his favorite afghan, packed a lunch for him including his favorite duck treats, tucked a jingle ball in with him, and gave him a Sacajawea dollar for the ferryman. Then we said the prayers, and commended him to the care of Bast and Freyja. May all the Sky People love him well until his next life.
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