Misty Monday Update

11:30 AM

Misty is being sent home right now. Her ER vet says she's become so uncooperative, lungeing at them & fighting being handled, they feel she'll be better off resting at home. This is so unlike her since she has a very passive, friendly personality, I hope it just means she's feeling better and is tired of all this. Hopefully once she's home, she'll calm down. She'll be on oral pain meds & antibiotics for several days.

She'll have a place in the bathroom, with her bed, food & water and litterbox since I don't want the other 3 bothering her right away. Once we see how she adjusts to being home, maybe she can come out when we're there for supervised family time.

Will update when I have more information from the ER vet.


8:10 AM

I called the vet at 1AM last night, since I was up anyway taking cold medicine, and they said her temperature was coming down.

When I talked to them this morning, they said they started an anti-inflammatory medication and the fever is still coming down, almost to normal. But now that she's feeling a little better, she's getting feisty. She's angry with them for taking her temp so often and chewed out her IV line. They will not replace that unless she doesn't do well on oral medication. Her temp must remain normal and her elimination and eating be normal before she can be released.

I will call them again in mid afternoon and there's an outside chance that if everything is OK, she might be able to come home tonight. Once the animal is out of danger, they'd rather have them recovering at home where they can rest more comfortably but we're dealing with about 7" of snow in our area, so when she can come home will be determined later.

Thank you all for your get well cards, good wishes and continued support. What a great community we have!!