Ah Sky has fallen sick...

It all started with Ah sky started vomiting out yellowish fluid abt 2 weeks ago. We all thought he must have drank some water from the bathroom and should be fine in a day's time. However things did not turn out what we expect... He started losing his appetite and became lethargy..

Was brought to the vet that week and was told by vet he's having stomach upset. Medications were given to stop vomiting and to enhance his appetite. When I went back to see ah sky few days later after his 1st consultation, he seems to have lose a couple of pounds. Gone were his puffy round figure and replaced with sunken drooping tummy and lethargy ah sky.
It was even more heartwrenching to carry him to realise what i see before me is true. He weighted so much lighter even though my sister reassured me that he did not lose much weight.

Fast forward to 1 week later and he's still not better, still vomiting and hardly eating. Had to coax him to eat by placing on our palm only then he reluctantly ate a bit. This time, I decided to accompany my sister to bring him to the vet for 2nd time.

I managed to take some picture of sky while waiting for the vet to take his blood..

Sky trying to look brave while my sister is coaxing him...

Sky had lose some weight and his cheek seems to have sunken in unlike the puffy round face in the past...
Doc decided to do a bld test and abd xray. As usual it was a torture for ah sky as well as my sister and I. Results weren't good.
The vet said his kidneys were smaller than the average size (circled in red) and his Crea was slightly elevated - 2.8. which means he could be having either kidney inflammation/infection or worse scenario kidney failure.. in order to find out the exact cause, he will have to go for ultrasound at the hospital as the clinic does not have such facilities. Then he would require an follow up to repeat blood test to check on his Crea level again

Two days ago, we brought sky to the hospital. We were told by the tech that the fur over his tummy region will be shaved for the ultrasound. She said it wasn't necessary for us to go in unless they have problem holding on to him. When he was brought out in the carrier.. nothing prepared us for what we saw. Sky was sitting dazed and stone in the carrier. I guess he must be really traumatized by the process. The tech told us we have to go back to see the doc in the clinic on the same day as the result is not good.

We were very reluctant to have to bring him out again in the evening as we knew it will be extremely stressful for him. However we have no choice as he was due to repeat his blood test as well..

That evening, we brought him back to the clinic vet who told us about the result. Ultrasound shows he has mild pancrestitis and decreased blood supply to his kidney hence the shrunken kidneys.. the decrease blood supply could be caused by an previous inflammation of the blood vessels which could had gone un-noticed or happened recently hence causing the the blood vessels to get constricted.

Ah sky will eventually get kidney failure and he will require lifelong medication.

Repeat blood test shows his Crea had decrease to 2.7 as compared to the 1st one 2.8. Urine test has some white blood cell (indicate urine tract infection) but still concentrated which shows that his kidney is still functioning.

For the time being, he had been given a string of medications to reduce the workload on his kidney, increase blood supply to kidney and low dose of antibiotics to combat the urine tract infection as well as changes to his diet.

Meanwhile he will need to go back and have an repeat ultrasound to check on his pancreas as well as blood result in 2 weeks time.

Uneventful day :-(

Orange's diarrhea continued yesterday amounting to a total of 5 times. Though each time was only a small amount of watery stool but I know its enough to dehydrate a small animal. Had to force feed him water via syringe for fear he might go into dehydration. Brought him to the vet that evening. Vet gave Orange a mild scolding for being a glutton. He was given some medications to stop the diarrhea and some friendly bacterica for his tummy.

Orange seems to shrink after a day of diarrhea. He hardly has the energy to even meow while I was preparing his food. Doc recommend me to feed him clear diet-boiled chicken breast meat with some porridge.

Yesterday's dinner as ordered by doc.

Its surprising to still see Orange have the appetite to eat though he ate slower than usual.

As usual, I had to give Lala the same kinda food for fear she might think Im showing favourism. For once, Lala finishes her food faster than Orange. In fact, he didn't even finish his food, guess he doesn't have much appetite.

One hour later after his meal and medications, Orange started retching and foaming on the mouth. It was scary like he's poisoned.

Helplessly, I watched him paced around the kitchen dripping bubbly foam on the floor. I didn't know what happen to him and called up the vet. They told me to put him off the water and food for next 12hrs and observe him. And that symptom that I describe by the way is the cat's way of vomiting and nausea.

Mr Lim and I felt that he must have eating too much dinner just now and drank too much water hence causing the vomiting.

Lala staring through the translucent door looking at his bro while Orange vomiting... There's nothing much I could do expect to stay with Orange and watching him foam small puddle of bubbly foam everywhere in the kitchen. I know he's feeling terrible. He meowed pitifully and use his head to knead against me. After 35mins, he finally stopped vomiting and I then carried him to the sofa where he rest and soon dozed off...

This morning, heard from Mr Lim he retained his breakfast well. Seeing no more vomiting. I stupidly gave him the medications only to cause him to have another episode of vomiting for 15mins. Now Im thinking it may be the medications that causing the vomiting and not the food he took. I feel so gulity for causing him to have to go through another episode of vomiting.

Hai... I don't think I'll continue with the medications. He's been prescript Diarrstope, Medazole and Trizine. Can anyone tell me if this will cause the symptoms as seen in Orange? Will see what the vet says. Just hope to see him get better soon.

Mummy, today I take care of Orange 哥哥 okie...

Orange is sick!

Last saturday, few of Mr Lim's friend came and they ordered KFC. At the end of the day, 2 piece nugget and 3 piece chicken were leftover and we decided to store it in a plastic container and leave for dinner. Off we went out to buy things.

Came back open the door and immediately caught the faint smell of KFC. I knew something was wrong. As expected, Orange was caught red handed squatting on the kitchen floor enjoying a piece of the KFC chicken!!! Lala hiding somewhere... God knows how he managed to peel open the plastic cover off the container! with his mouth??

Not only that, we found the 2 nuggets missing as well... Don't even know if Lala ate it as well..

Anyway woke up on sun to find pile of vomitus at different part of the house. Again God knows who vomited?? Both cat appear active as normal its hard to tell... though we suspect its Orange. No photo were taken due to the grossly content...

Today I finally know who is the sick cat suffering from post illegal bludging. Orange was found having watery stool and looking lethergy. He had diarrhea x2. Hai poor Orange is not like his usual self today.

Again my heart aches seeing him in this state.. As usual Lala the inconsiderate brat keeps lureing him to play with her... Hah she gets a scolding from me and sulk one corner.

Lala sulking behind Orange and looking bored..

Mr Lim says he can hear Orange's stomach turning about inside... I guess Orange must be suffering from GE. I just hope he can get well soon in next two days

Tummy feels funny and I don't feel like playing


maybe tomorrow will be a better day...



Orange bro.. get well soon so we can tear the house down and keep mummy and daddy up the night okie... I'll wait for you..