Emmy and the needle

Well we've made some changes to Emmy's food and insulin so Ive been meaning to do a blood glucose curve to see how she's dealing with the new food and what not. I had a feeling the readings wouldn't be good as her skin is horribly flaky and her fur is dull. and it wasn't. After giving her 6.5 units of insulin at 5:30.. her readings were as follows

• 7:00 365
• 9:30 209
• 2:45 372
• 5:30 396

a good reading is around 100.. so I'm going to go talk to the doctors and see what they recommend

awwww

I took the kittens to the clinic yesterday. George was still wheezing after a week of antibiotics, and Gracie (the other black one) is/was leaking out of her anus. I had to give her baths every single day. Saturday morning I went to wipe off her tushie before running off to work and she screamed so loud that I just packed them all up and brought them down. So now George is on zithromax due to having pneumonia, and Gracie is on Albon as well.

One of the girls at the clinic gave them baths, and combed Sam (aka fluffy) He didn't much like it. He's going to have to learn though.. being so long, he already had a matt. He's doing much better at keeping the poop off his fur.. which is good.

I let them run around the kitten room after coming home. That night the hubby and I went in to see them, and they were all tuckered out, so a few fell asleep on me, and Sam fell asleep on him. George was wheezing and laying on the floor, so I gave the kittens on me to the hubby, and they proceeded to make a little kitten pile on him and fall asleep. George was limp for a while, then started biting my thumb, and attacking my hair. He has way too much energy for someone who has pneumonia. For as much trouble as these guys are (man I say that a lot) they are awful good kitties.

so cute it hurts

the kittens are doing well.. totally rambunctious.. and so utterly cute it hurts.. the little fluff balls prancing around, trying to act all big and tough, showing their sides when running towards another kitten so as to look bigger. I wish I could take a video to share with you all, cause it is so utterly cute.

*warning - poop update*
So they all had very loose stools when they showed up here, but after the last dose of strongid they cleared up. Fluffy's were quite stinky and loose, and he wasn't eating very well at all, so I brought some to the vet, and they didn't see anything but a possible tapeworm egg, so for now, he's on albon.

Fluffy's appetite started coming back, and he is getting very possessive of his food... so now I have to give them four dishes of food. George is still sneezing his head off.. hopefully, that will stop soon.

OT: there is a lady bug crawling on the ceiling of this room, it's freaking my kitties out.. they want to get it.. so everyone is just staring at the ceiling..

Eli and the tear duct flush and kitten update

I talked to the herbalist today.. she recommends starting out trying a tear duct flush for Eli.. so I'm going to schedule that on a day that the surgeon who has had some luck doing the procedure is working. I talked to two of the other surgeons, and they haven't had much success doing it, which is why I wanted to go the herbal route.. but hopefully the surgery will work well, and we won't have to worry about pilling him. Dr. S does surgery on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. I was going to schedule it for Thursday, but then I remembered that I have the morning off. I like the idea of his being there the next day as well if perchance something goes wrong, so we are going to wait till next Thursday. a week isn't going to make much of a difference since it's been going on for so long.. and his eyes are actually much better recently, so I think this works out for the best.

now for the kittens. I took another look at the little girls eye, and it seems fine.. must have just been a trick of light. The little fluffy one decided he didn't want to eat yesterday. I put a bit of food in his mouth, and he ate that but didn't eat on his own. He seemed to want to eat, but just wouldn't. He's not sneezing, and looks healthy, except for the lack of food. I forced some KMR into him so at least he had some nutriants. I said to myself if he didn't eat in the morning I'd bring him in with me to work, but he actually ate about three bites, then gave up.. so I forced some more KMR into him, and stopped to get some meds. Hopefully, I won't need to use them, and he'll be ready to eat when I go in there... right now.

kittens

So we have kittens.. and they are four of the messiest kittens I've had in a while. It's not their fault.. they have stuff coming out of both ends they can't control, very watery stools and vomiting. Poor things. I took some pictures.. one concerns me greatly..



The one of the little girl looking at you, you notice one of her eyes is not looking right at you. I'm hoping that it's just a trick of the camera, because if not, its remind me greatly of Mew.. the little kitten that had a deformed stomach.. who vomited often.. who needed to be put down.

The big fluffy one reminds me of Kodi. He is a little skittish, so I started calling him Iran, cause he kept running away from me when I went to go see him. I didn't think that was appropriate, so I started calling him charlie just to not call him Kodi. There is a fluffy black one who's hair is tipped with a lighter color.. very cool.. looks a bit like a bear. Hubby wants to call him George.. because he went right up to him, and was quite curious about everything. That's about as far as I've gotten with names.. which means no one really has one :)

Need to go clean the cage. I'm also trying to decide if I should go down to the shelter today to get some meds for them. I really need to go in there one day and stock up on the general meds needed for fostering.. cause inevitably I need something I don't have, and I have to make a trip down there. It's not so bad when I'm at work since I'm mostly there anyway, but its a 35 minute drive one way just to get there.. Not a trip I make lightly.