June 12-15
Not much to report - I threw up during my dinner feeding tonight, so James slowed my feeding way down and that seemed to help. He weighed me last night and I weighed 5 lbs., 2 1/2 oz., so hopefully I'm gaining a little weight.
Jenny & James have gone back to the 18-gauge needle for my fluids. I think it hurts more than the 20-gauge when they put it in, but the solution gets into me a lot faster, which is important because I really don't like to sit still for my fluids.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Day 42
Wednesday, June 11
The tech called today and left my kidney values on the answering machine, and my numbers are a third of what they were a couple of weeks ago - so they have gone down two thirds!
Jenny & James are giving me more food per feeding, and I seem to be doing OK; at least, I haven't been barfing a lot, which is pretty much my symptom of being "not OK" with my feedings. I've been getting the aluminum hydroxide, which is chalky and smells minty, like Maalox (not that I'm tasting it), so maybe that's helping, too.
The tech called today and left my kidney values on the answering machine, and my numbers are a third of what they were a couple of weeks ago - so they have gone down two thirds!
Jenny & James are giving me more food per feeding, and I seem to be doing OK; at least, I haven't been barfing a lot, which is pretty much my symptom of being "not OK" with my feedings. I've been getting the aluminum hydroxide, which is chalky and smells minty, like Maalox (not that I'm tasting it), so maybe that's helping, too.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Day 41
Tuesday, June 10
Well, my trip to MedVet this afternoon was somewhat of a joke. Jenny didn’t even get to see Dr. Forman! They took me in the back to draw blood and she waited for me in the waiting room. After a while they called her to pay the bill – she protested that I wasn’t even done yet, but they wanted to get it taken care of. Jenny waited a little longer after she paid the bill, and then a tech she had never met before (Joy) brought me out to her in my carrier.
Jenny had hoped to talk to Dr. Forman about quality-of-life issues (whatever that means), but since it will take a couple of days to get the results of my kidney tests back, she figured she could wait and talk to him then. She did need to ask the tech for a medication refill, syringes, material to make me another tank top, etc. The tech asked if she was still giving me aluminum hydroxide (for my phosphorous levels), and Jenny said she didn’t think we’d ever gotten any aluminum hydroxide to give me. So they gave me a bottle of that, too. Then Jenny owed another $11.00, which luckily she could pay in cash.
Since I weighed only 5.0 lbs. (where is all that food going? I’m not throwing up that much!), they told Jenny to increase my feedings to 70 mL’s (three times a day), then 80, and then 90 (over a week's time). They gave her a couple more 35 mL syringes and a couple of 60 mL syringes, but when we got home and Jenny went to get me my dinner, she removed the 35 mL syringes from their cases and saw that the tips were wrong – too big to fit into my feeding tube. The 60’s were the same way. So now she’ll have to make another trip to MedVet to get what I need.
Plus it turns out that we did have aluminum hydroxide at home, but when James had picked it up he was told to only give it to me after I started eating on my own, so clearly the hospital was a little mixed up about their own instructions. Jenny & James are starting to find MedVet a bit annoying…
Days 33-40
June 2-9
There hasn't been much to report lately. I'm just getting fed through my tube, barfing from time to time, and growling when I get my fluids every night. I guess this is what they call "the new normal." I'm definitely not my old self again, but I'm not feeling all lethargic like I was when I was trying to pass my kidney stone (I guess I passed it). Jenny is taking me for a check-up at MedVet tomorrow, so we'll see what Dr. Forman says.
There hasn't been much to report lately. I'm just getting fed through my tube, barfing from time to time, and growling when I get my fluids every night. I guess this is what they call "the new normal." I'm definitely not my old self again, but I'm not feeling all lethargic like I was when I was trying to pass my kidney stone (I guess I passed it). Jenny is taking me for a check-up at MedVet tomorrow, so we'll see what Dr. Forman says.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Day 32
Sunday, June 1
I think I needed my fluids yesterday. Last night when James weighed me, I had lost a couple of ounces. Jenny is going to check with the vet clinic to see if she can bring me in to get my fluids when James is away at the Indy car race in mid-July; she probably can't manage it on her own.
This morning I stayed curled up in my cuddle cup while Jenny gave me my feeding, and at the very end I threw up a little bit, right in my bed! When Jenny tried to wipe it up it felt like she was invading my space, so I kind of growled - at first she thought it was my stomach making the noise! I think she was kind of relieved that it wasn't, so I don't feel particularly guilty.
When I came downstairs this afternoon, I was a little wobbly, and Jenny suggested I get my fluids earlier in the day. The plan was to give me 150 mL's (usually I get 100), but I managed to wiggle the needle out after only 100. Since that's my usual "dose," though, James didn't try to stick me again.
A few hours after my fluids, I was feeling perkier. I was sitting in the living room window looking out the screen when Jenny came home from feeding the sheep. I wish I didn't need to get poked with a needle in order to feel better, though!
I think I needed my fluids yesterday. Last night when James weighed me, I had lost a couple of ounces. Jenny is going to check with the vet clinic to see if she can bring me in to get my fluids when James is away at the Indy car race in mid-July; she probably can't manage it on her own.
This morning I stayed curled up in my cuddle cup while Jenny gave me my feeding, and at the very end I threw up a little bit, right in my bed! When Jenny tried to wipe it up it felt like she was invading my space, so I kind of growled - at first she thought it was my stomach making the noise! I think she was kind of relieved that it wasn't, so I don't feel particularly guilty.
When I came downstairs this afternoon, I was a little wobbly, and Jenny suggested I get my fluids earlier in the day. The plan was to give me 150 mL's (usually I get 100), but I managed to wiggle the needle out after only 100. Since that's my usual "dose," though, James didn't try to stick me again.
A few hours after my fluids, I was feeling perkier. I was sitting in the living room window looking out the screen when Jenny came home from feeding the sheep. I wish I didn't need to get poked with a needle in order to feel better, though!
Day 31
Saturday, May 31
Today James was gone almost all day so I got to skip my fluids! Me & Jenny & Bucky just hung out while Mr. Cat meowed piteously from the basement to join us.
Today James was gone almost all day so I got to skip my fluids! Me & Jenny & Bucky just hung out while Mr. Cat meowed piteously from the basement to join us.
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