Happy New Year to all of you!
I hope everything is starting out well for you.
Thank you all who have wished us and Molly well over the last week. We really do appreciate it, and Cassie and I do read every message and, where there is advice, we take it to heart.
As Cassie said, Molly seems to be keeping the food down, and the horrible yellow color to her lips is changing to a healthy pink. we hope to increase the amount of food we give her starting tomorrow.
She had been having problems keeping it down, and we finally decided we would blame the medicine the vet prescribed to help settle her stomach and KEEP her from throwing up. We stopped giving her that medicine, and she’s been keeping the food down ever since. Connected? Who knows. Probably a fluke the universe is throwing at me to feed my paranoia.
In unrelated news, my latest article on leveling a new Druid, in this case from 6 to 10, is live at WoW Insider. If you’d like to wax nostalgic over the olden days of your Druid, go check it out.
Also, played my ancient abandoned Priest last night. I’d played to 24 and then got wrapped up in bear tanking and hunting. I went back last night and duo-ed much of Redridge with a guildie on his 24 Mage.
Can I just say that, even though I KNOW my talent points are spent WRONG, that I had a blast discovering the joys of Fearing two mobs, using Mind Flay, Shadow Word Pain and various other bouncing spells. At a few points, during the Escort quest of Keegan, we were single handedly wiping out the whole village outside the cave mouth, and as one group of 4 went down, the next group would respawn and we’d spank them too. It gave a heady feeling of power, indeed. Fear followed by Flash Heals and Heal and Renew and then blast blast blast!
I have searched all of my favorite Priest blogs, because I remember someone made a ‘Talent Speccing Shadow to level 26′ post, but I can’t find it. Can anyone link it to me so I can go respec properly?
I thank you all very kindly in advance!
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January 1st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
“Speccing Properly” is defined as:
Are you having fun? Yes? Then you’re specced properly.
ok, with THAT out of the way, and assuming what you mean is, “Speccing to maximize leveling ability”, my recommendation is at http://priestlyendeavors.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/leveling-your-priest-talent-points/
(I’d insert it, but every time I do blogger just underlines but excludes the actual link.)
January 1st, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Please, talk to your vet about Molly’s reaction to the meds. Don’t just quit giving them to her. I understand your reasoning, but your vet has reasons why she prescribed the medication that you give to her. She doesn’t want to torment Molly, but wants to help, and if you simply omit them, she has no way of knowing that something might be wrong with the prescription. I realize that your trust in her is shaky after your experiences, but nonetheless, she knows more about a cat’s metabolism than you do.
Being the daughter of two vets, I often witness people who stop giving their pets the medicine they need in the belief of doing them good when, in fact, they hurt them instead. There’s a good possibility that you are right and that Molly is reacting to the meds in unexpected ways, but please talk about it with your vet and find a solution together.
I am thinking of you all. May Molly recover and live a long and happy life!
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 am
Glad to hear that the jaundice is going away, thats a great sign that the liver is starting to work properly again.
Thanks for the great blog, I have never posted here before, but try to visit daily.
Best of luck in the coming days with Molly!
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:05 am
Hi Miraye - EU Argent Dawn,
You are definitely correct about not just stopping the medication and I’m sorry we conveyed that that’s what we had done.
To clarify it was an anti-nausea medication that was supposed to keep her from vomiting and that was supposed to be given a few times a day, 30 minutes before a feeding.
However, we chart every feeding that we give her, how much she had and the time, and then note if any comes back up. So we had 2 days of data to show that everytime we gave her the medication, she’d get sick in 20-30 minutes before we had even given her any food.
I had a conversation with the vet today when she called to check in and let her know our findings and she agreed that, although that’s the opposite reaction that we should be seeing with the med, that we should try going without it and see if the situation changes.
But we definitely would never suggest that anyone ignore the advice of a doctor (whether pet or human) without talking it over first.
Thanks for your support and for making sure we were doing the best for Molly!
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
Hi Cassieann,
glad to hear that
I was just being over-careful, I am admittedly somewhat over-sensibilized to that topic. And you’d be surprised how often people ‘do not want to go through with the hassle’ of caring for their pets if they’re ill… it is scary, really, and sad that your vet seems to expect that kind of reaction.
Good luck, and please tell us how you all fare!
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Happy New Year to you too!
I’m glad Molly is improving. It’s difficult having a sick pet. I recommend switching vets until you find one you like. We have two dogs, the oldest one’s kidney’s never formed during developement. The vet found this out when doing the blood test prior to ‘fixing’ him. Instead of calling us and letting us know so we could decide on whether to do the surgury, she did it anyway then told us of the condition along with the prognosis of him only living 1-2 years…Thanks for the unnecessary surgury and $300 bill and see ya later! We bounced around through a couple other vets until we found one we liked. I’m happy to report that with proper diet and care he is over 5 years old now and his condition is stabalized. Even though the vet we like is a bit more expensive, they are worth it in the care and compassion they give.