4:13am June 29, 2015

Fey is already doing better.

At least, all of us who are watching her think so. Her behavior is changing back to doing things she used to do that I’d totally forgotten she’d stopped doing (like memorizing the staff schedule and freaking out if people don’t show up on time or leave early, greeting people at the door, and insisting on wet food NOW), and she’s looking less like she’s wearing a tight-laced corset or something. Less bony. Still too bony, but we think she’s putting on weight. (I should buy a cat scale or something next month so I can keep track of that, we don’t want her to lose any more weight, she’s already skin and bones.) So we’re all cautiously optimistic about these new meds.

Best of all, they’re in a gel form where you put a weird little finger glove (it looks like a condom only finger-sized) on and put the gel on that and then rub it on the inside of her ear. She’s still sensitive on her left ear, but she tolerates it, and when it’s her right ear she thinks I’m just giving her ear scritches. (I alternate ears every day.) It gets absorbed through the skin, meaning no pills and no shots and no power struggles and no humans having to go on antibiotics because her response to pills is to hork them up even if you get them down her throat, and then to sink her teeth as far into you as they can possibly go. So this is good for everyone involved. It’s a little more expensive than pills, but it’s worth the money because the pills wouldn’t work anyway and I’d pay anything to keep her alive. (Also part of the pay is a labor charge for the compounding pharmacy, so if I buy them in bulk I get a huge discount compared to buying only a month’s supply. I’ve just bought a month’s supply the first month because I wanted to be sure it worked before committing.)

So that’s the Fey update.

Sorry again for not being able to write a lot, but it’s very hard for me to form words lately.