Message Number: YG13913 | New FHL Archives Search
From: moorgannandorf
Date: 2002-06-17 16:24:00 UTC
Subject: Tigger once again

For some reason my earlier post did not make it.

[Moderator's note: the earlier post made it, even though you probably got that Yahoo error message when posting from the website. This message has some additional information and so is being posted as well.]

Tigger is eating baby food now, but she will not touch the water
bottle nor the water dish, nor the syrringe that I have 1 teaspoon of
water in. Sometimes she will lick it off my fingers, at other times I
have to use the syrringe to get the wate into her.

The lack of drinking water on her own concerned me, so I called the
doctor's office today. The veterinarian at the office told me to not
give her the diazoxide tonight, and wait for the doctor who saw
Tigger to call me back tomorrow morning.

I do not know if she is having a reaction to the diazoxide, or the
Lupron shot, or what. She was at least drinking water on her own
until she had her first dose of the diazoxide - but after that she
won't even drink on her own.

I am taking care of her the best I can right now - a teaspoon of
Ferretvite once a day (I went out and returned one tube of the
Furovite and got 1 tube of Ferretvite and 1 tube of Nutrical; she
likes the Ferretvite better), her prednisone, and 2 jars of Gerber's
chicken (2.5 oz X 2 = 5 oz). I will see if she starts drinking water
at all tonight, or see what the doctor tells me tomorrow. He may just
tell me to wait until her next appointment next week Friday, or he
may want to see me Wednesday.