{"id":740,"date":"2004-01-15T19:59:56","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T14:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/740"},"modified":"2004-01-15T19:59:56","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T14:59:56","slug":"yet-another-cat-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/740","title":{"rendered":"Yet another cat crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may remember when I talked about my cat Zeke<\/a>, whom I inherited from my grandmother a few years ago and died from acute kidney failure.<\/p>\n

Or when I talked about losing Gus<\/a> late last January, after a long bout of illness.<\/p>\n

Or even back in July when I mentioned losing Lilly<\/a>, and I mentioned that I was concerned that Maddie wouldn’t get over losing all her friends so close together.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning I woke up to see that Maddie was crouched in the meatloaf position. She’s gotten terribly skinny lately, down to 4 pounds from her fighting weight of 8. I’ve been giving her medication for hyperthyroidism for the past few months, but it hasn’t seemed to stop the weight loss.<\/p>\n

Blood tests showed kidney failure. Cat number four in the same number of years. She stayed at the vet on an IV until yesterday. She did not eat. They syringe-fed her, and she vomited it back up. She urinated on herself. The vet does not have much hope for her. X-rays show a large amount of kidney stones on both sides, which probably killed the kidneys. She came home yesterday to see if I could get her to eat in a more comfortable environment. I haven’t had much luck. A little chicken broth, some more syringe-fed food. So far she has kept it down, but I’m concerned about prolonging a life that is painful. Max is very upset and can’t understand why his friend won’t play with him anymore. I told the children that Maddie may go to heaven to be with Gus and Lilly and they started crying. “I don’t want Maddie to go. I like Maddie!”<\/p>\n

I like her, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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