First of all, we want to say a heartfelt thank you to everybuddy for the well wishes, crossed paws and purrs for Sadie. We can't thank you enough for keeping her in your thoughts and we appreciate all of you!
Although Sadie is still at the vet's, we wanted to update everybuddy on what they found out today which is basically that she's a mystery. The ultrasound showed that she has old lady kidneys but it didn't indicate kidney failure so there's no explanation for why her kidney enzymes are sky high. There's no sign of cancer or anything like that either. There was a spot on her spleen and something else, which we forgot what Daddy said, that confirms the Cushings disease diagnosis but doesn't explain why she is feeling lethargic and won't eat and just makes a mess with her food like this:
She's never been a messy eater but now she just licks her food and spits it out or most of the time she won't even touch it. She did eat a little wet dog food (when mixed with cat food!), a little pancake and some ham yesterday. Daddy also made cookies without chocolate chips so she could have some (actually, we all did!) and she liked those. She turned her nose up at turkey, roast beef and even her favorite treats though so we don't know what's going on. We've tried a lot of tricks (except baby food which Khyra just told us about) but hopefully we can find something that'll get her to eat.
A radiologist will look at the test results again tomorrow and the vet will call Daddy with a full report (because Mommy can't handle vet news - she's weird that way). We're hoping to find something that we can fix instead of this big mystery of what is happening to her.
Thanks again for keeping her in your thoughts!
PeeS: Another update: The vet looked in her mouth while she was still sedated and didn't see anything causing her to have pain when eating but said that if she has an upset tummy she would act like something is bothering her mouth because she's not wanting to swallow the food. We tried giving her Xantac but it made her throw up so we don't want to do that again! We don't think she wants to do that again either!
A radiologist will look at the test results again tomorrow and the vet will call Daddy with a full report (because Mommy can't handle vet news - she's weird that way). We're hoping to find something that we can fix instead of this big mystery of what is happening to her.
Thanks again for keeping her in your thoughts!
PeeS: Another update: The vet looked in her mouth while she was still sedated and didn't see anything causing her to have pain when eating but said that if she has an upset tummy she would act like something is bothering her mouth because she's not wanting to swallow the food. We tried giving her Xantac but it made her throw up so we don't want to do that again! We don't think she wants to do that again either!
