warning: cats can cause sleeplessness

[ramtops]

Update on Bada's condition. Which, currently, is not good :(

As some of you may recall, Bada is on long term medication for severe gingivitis. We changed vets recently (as our beloved Judith had retired) and have started using the one in the village.



She advised us that a long term steroid injection might be better for Bada than a pill regime, which distresses her (and us), so we tried it. Pete took her back to see the vet on Monday, as we were coming to the end of the injection's advised period, and was told that "she was a little bit inflamed, but we don't need another one yet". They charged us thirty quid for this, I might add.

Last Thurday afternoon, Liessa started coughing; of course, it got worse as the evening drew in, and we resolved to en-vet her the following morning. But soon after 8.30 she started clawing at her face, and coughed up some blood, so I phoned the emergency vet on Zetland Road.

The 24 hour vet hospital is part of the group practice of the vet we used to go to; they did her dental op last year, and they have access to her notes. It's clear the vet wasn't impressed with the treatment she'd been having at the new vet, and says the pills are much much better, as they are a controlled dose (which makes sense). Her gums had deteriorated to the point that she had a flap of them hanging off (poor little kit), which was causing the distress and the bleeding.

She had an antibiotic shot and a short term steroid jab - none of us wanted to traumatise her further with a pill last night, so we started those on Friday evening. We also have some dental paste which we can try putting on her paws, in the hope she'll lick it off, and an antibacterial mouth spray (I can't wait/ to try that ...)

£118 for that little lot, which I thought wasn't actually too bad, given they had to get the vet in to see her.

She spent Thursday and Friday night, and all of Friday and Saturday, curled up at the end of our bed. She spent Saturday night curled up between us. She coughs a lot with the infection, but it's not too bad. However, we didn't want to leave her for too long, so we cancelled Saturday night's outing.

She spent *last* night perched on perlmonger - I moved her off several times but she just went straight back. His sleep was therefore fairly minimal, and mine wasn't much better.



Cost to date: £508 (to include a couple of visits I didn't document).

Comments

[aeia.livejournal.com]

Sound like a pretty rubbish vets! We use Avon Lodge vets on the Wells Road. Possibly a but far from you but they've always been very good with our cats and the rats in the past. They don't overcharge either. When we took one cat back to have a cut her in her paw checked the vert only charged us half as we were in and out in 2 mins.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

We have had two minute consults with Judith for which she didn't charge us anything! Needless to say, we won't be returning to the village vet.

Judith's replacement is ok - it's just that the village vet is walkable, and so more convenient. The cats' welfare is far more important, however, so we'll return to Hotwell Road.