I can't remember exactly when this started without looking at my vet paperwork, but for the past month or so we've been treating Miss Prickly for what we hoped as an inner ear problem. It started out that she would fall over randomly, get herself up, and then keep on trucking. She was given antibiotics and tresaderm ear drops. Within 48 hours of being on the ear drops, she was much worse. Hence what made us think inner ear, and gave me hope. We gave her zithromax and prednisone, and she got better, only to plateau. So, we tried Clavamox. That didn't help at all, so then it was SMZ TMP, we still saw no improvement, so she's back on Zithromax again, and still no improvement. we had also tried another round of pred, it still didn't seem to work and my vet was leary to keep her on it because she doesn't know how they handle long term use of steroids.
We're syringe feeding her ensure, baby food, bene-bac, and wet cat food. We're also syringing her water and giving her sub-cu fluids at least twice a week.
I'm starting to notice a downward trend. At first, she was dragging her back left leg. Now it sticks out and she has more trouble moving it. Then it moved to her other back leg. Tonight (this is worse from even this morning), I noticed that her front left leg now seems more stationary (she can move it). When she's laying down, she used to contort her front legs and one back leg to flip herself over. Now she simply moves her muscles.
Does this sound like WHS? Or a tumor maybe?
I don't know how much longer I can let this go on, for her sake. She can't flip herself over, so when she has to do her business it stays on her until I get her up and bathe her. It just got that way within the past few days.
I need help...
I'm a wreck, it hurts so much. I held her close tonight sobbing and told her how sorry I was and asked her to let me know when it was time, told her I loved her and how good of a girl she was. She layed in my hand and just relaxed when I stroked the fur up her nose and between her eyes. She just gazed at me like she understood and didn't want me to hurt, but I can't help it. I don't want to take her too soon, but I don't want to prolong the inevitable...
We're syringe feeding her ensure, baby food, bene-bac, and wet cat food. We're also syringing her water and giving her sub-cu fluids at least twice a week.
I'm starting to notice a downward trend. At first, she was dragging her back left leg. Now it sticks out and she has more trouble moving it. Then it moved to her other back leg. Tonight (this is worse from even this morning), I noticed that her front left leg now seems more stationary (she can move it). When she's laying down, she used to contort her front legs and one back leg to flip herself over. Now she simply moves her muscles.
Does this sound like WHS? Or a tumor maybe?
I don't know how much longer I can let this go on, for her sake. She can't flip herself over, so when she has to do her business it stays on her until I get her up and bathe her. It just got that way within the past few days.
I need help...
I'm a wreck, it hurts so much. I held her close tonight sobbing and told her how sorry I was and asked her to let me know when it was time, told her I loved her and how good of a girl she was. She layed in my hand and just relaxed when I stroked the fur up her nose and between her eyes. She just gazed at me like she understood and didn't want me to hurt, but I can't help it. I don't want to take her too soon, but I don't want to prolong the inevitable...