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So Sissy's breeder and I have been writing e-mails to each other back and forth a few times a day as well as speaking on the telephone quite a number of times this week in particular since my husband went to her house last Monday to pick up Sissy and found out she was sick!
I begged my breeder to get Sissy off of the Clavamox and to put her on Zithromycin and Tobramycin eye drops as nose drops. She did and informed me that Sissy was doing better and she felt that Sissy absolutely was responding positively to the new medicines.
My husband and son left on Friday a.m. for Florida to try to pick up Sissy for a second time. Her pick up day is set for 8
0 a.m. tomorrow.
We picked up the anitibiotic and drops at my vet on Thursday so that everything will be here waiting for Sissy. I kitten-proofed my daughter's "old" bedroom for two days making sure that everything is perfect for Sissy's arrival tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. I have even raised the heat in that room and put out a heating pad on her bed too.
Last night I got an e-mail from my breeder saying that twice a day (a.m. and p.m.) she has been giving Sissy kitten replacement milk with a bit of Science Diet A/D canned food! Today I went out and got 12 cans of replacement milk at $10.00 a can! The canned food is an Rx and I can't get that until Monday, so I told the breeder to send some home with Sissy and my husband on Sunday a.m.
Now I go and call the breeder to confirm the time that my husband will be at her house tomorrow and she said that she almost cancelled her 2 1/2 week cruise because she felt that having her sitter come in 2X a day to do what she's got to do wouldn't be good enough now that ALL the kittens are sick! She has instead, arranged for a volunteer guy of the last 11 years at her vet's office to come and live in her house during her vacation.
She told me that the kittens went to the vet today to get Baytril injections, Idoxuridine eye drops, as well as staying on the Zithromycin antibiotic. In a cool air humidifier, her vet wants her to use the following instead of Vicks: 3 ml saline, 1.0 ml Gentamicin, and .5 Aminophylline right into the water inside the humidifier!
She said that her vet called it a virus that is very contagious (air-born) and that she knows that Sissy will be fine in my care, but she gave me the option of leaving Sissy where she is now as this guy will be staying at her house. Tomorrow he is coming over around 20 p.m. to get the routine down pat on caring for at least nine sick kittens (if not more)!
I called my husband and told him what I purchased today for Sissy INCLUDING a very high gate which I was going to put up in the hallway leading down to the bedroom where Sissy was going to be isolated. I do not want my three boys sniffing Sissy under the door and come down with this virus. I was even planning on sleeping in there with her taking very good care of her all night long.
I really told my husband that I think Sissy should stay where she is until she is better or at least much better than she is now. He wanted me to make a conference call with him to the breeder, so I did. He told the breeder that this is the second time he's gone down there to pick up Sissy and he's coming back empty-handed. He told her that maybe she should have gotten an antibiotic injection earlier in the week instead of waiting for today. He said that IF she is much better before my breeder comes back from her 2 1/2 week cruise, he wants to pick her up before she gets reinfected or gets a relapse and starts all over again with this illness. At first the breeder fought him on that suggestion, but my husband raised his voice a bit and she listened to his reasoning and agreed that IF Sissy is better, we can pick her up.
This has been so stressful on me. Twice I was so excited to get my baby girl home (in less than one week) and twice I have no baby girl to wear pink sweaters I made for her.
I hope I'm making the right decision in leaving Sissy there again. I just hope that this guy that's going to live in my breeder's house will be totally on top of all the sick kittens.
So, no Sissy tomorrow. I'm sooooo bummed.
I begged my breeder to get Sissy off of the Clavamox and to put her on Zithromycin and Tobramycin eye drops as nose drops. She did and informed me that Sissy was doing better and she felt that Sissy absolutely was responding positively to the new medicines.
My husband and son left on Friday a.m. for Florida to try to pick up Sissy for a second time. Her pick up day is set for 8
0 a.m. tomorrow.We picked up the anitibiotic and drops at my vet on Thursday so that everything will be here waiting for Sissy. I kitten-proofed my daughter's "old" bedroom for two days making sure that everything is perfect for Sissy's arrival tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. I have even raised the heat in that room and put out a heating pad on her bed too.
Last night I got an e-mail from my breeder saying that twice a day (a.m. and p.m.) she has been giving Sissy kitten replacement milk with a bit of Science Diet A/D canned food! Today I went out and got 12 cans of replacement milk at $10.00 a can! The canned food is an Rx and I can't get that until Monday, so I told the breeder to send some home with Sissy and my husband on Sunday a.m.
Now I go and call the breeder to confirm the time that my husband will be at her house tomorrow and she said that she almost cancelled her 2 1/2 week cruise because she felt that having her sitter come in 2X a day to do what she's got to do wouldn't be good enough now that ALL the kittens are sick! She has instead, arranged for a volunteer guy of the last 11 years at her vet's office to come and live in her house during her vacation.
She told me that the kittens went to the vet today to get Baytril injections, Idoxuridine eye drops, as well as staying on the Zithromycin antibiotic. In a cool air humidifier, her vet wants her to use the following instead of Vicks: 3 ml saline, 1.0 ml Gentamicin, and .5 Aminophylline right into the water inside the humidifier!
She said that her vet called it a virus that is very contagious (air-born) and that she knows that Sissy will be fine in my care, but she gave me the option of leaving Sissy where she is now as this guy will be staying at her house. Tomorrow he is coming over around 2
0 p.m. to get the routine down pat on caring for at least nine sick kittens (if not more)!I called my husband and told him what I purchased today for Sissy INCLUDING a very high gate which I was going to put up in the hallway leading down to the bedroom where Sissy was going to be isolated. I do not want my three boys sniffing Sissy under the door and come down with this virus. I was even planning on sleeping in there with her taking very good care of her all night long.
I really told my husband that I think Sissy should stay where she is until she is better or at least much better than she is now.
He wanted me to make a conference call with him to the breeder, so I did. He told the breeder that this is the second time he's gone down there to pick up Sissy and he's coming back empty-handed. He told her that maybe she should have gotten an antibiotic injection earlier in the week instead of waiting for today. He said that IF she is much better before my breeder comes back from her 2 1/2 week cruise, he wants to pick her up before she gets reinfected or gets a relapse and starts all over again with this illness. At first the breeder fought him on that suggestion, but my husband raised his voice a bit and she listened to his reasoning and agreed that IF Sissy is better, we can pick her up.This has been so stressful on me. Twice I was so excited to get my baby girl home (in less than one week) and twice I have no baby girl to wear pink sweaters I made for her.
I hope I'm making the right decision in leaving Sissy there again. I just hope that this guy that's going to live in my breeder's house will be totally on top of all the sick kittens.
So, no Sissy tomorrow.
I'm sooooo bummed.
