angieluv wrote:
You know sometimes you have done everything that you can and there is nothing left to do for the night; You can camp with her but only if it makes her feel better..otherwise go to bed and leave it for the night.
You're right, of course.
After reading your last post, I turned off the computer and gave Emma a smaller Metacam dose (around 12 am). I fell asleep near her until my DH woke me for bed at 1:15 am (when he was headed there himself).
When I left Emma, her eyes were closed and her breathing so shallow, I didn't expect to find a living bun in the morning. So I had a soft cry in bed and passed out against my will.
Shortly after I woke this morning, I found her eating a little hay in her litter box, in which shepassed maybe 10 very small fecals. I also got her totake 15 cc's of semi-watery Critical Care.
She is acting more perky and sassy, which is great. But this situation still breaks my heart. My DH is ready to start rehoming buns. He's already surpassed his can-do limit (especially financially) a long time ago, and I know that. I've just tried to blissfully press onward with things.
At the very least, I foresee us having to rehome Emma. Because once I return to work full-time, there would be no one here who could give her the 16+ hours of care that she's already had for the current issue. And this isn't the first time that her stomach has turned rock hard (seemingly on a dime, since she does everything fine up until the moment it hits).
BTW, we don't suspect that this issue is gas;in the past, she's responded to well to Simethicone (two doses usually work). But these two recent bouts seem to be caused by a rock-hard stomach (possibly ingesta stuck there). The vet and I have speculated that she may have an abnormally narrow pyloric valve (or some other region of her digestive tract) that just makes it easy for food to get stuck.
The bad part is that she can't gopellet free; she burns up too many calories by being her typical, busy-bee self.
I need to think on this situation some more, but I don't see how keeping her benefits anyone if: 1) we're out of funds for chasing a cause that can't be found; 2) I'm exhausted from two years' of ongoing pet-care stress; 3) my DH is no longer (and hasn't been) supportive of the situation; and 4) Emma likely wouldn't survive another such "attack" if we're both working full-time. :tears2: