Friday, January 17, 2025

Tylan Urgently Needs Purrs and Prayers

 

Me and Tylan
I'm giving Tylan a hug good night before I leave him in good hands at the hospital.

As many of you know, Tylan has been really strugging since the beginning of December, 2024. At that time, his labs confirmed that he was having an acute bout of pancreatitis (he has chronic pancreatitis that flares every little bit). We also found out at that time that he had gone from stage 2 kidney disease (where he’d been stable for 3 years) to mid stage 3 kidney disease.

At the end of December, 2024, Tylan continued to struggle with his pancreatitis, and his labs showed that he had moved into late stage 3 kidney disease. Given that there were only 3 weeks between his two sets of labs, I was disturbed by the increase in his kidney values. But the veterinarians at his clinic didn’t seem too concerned about it. At that time, we decided to put him on subcutaneous fluids every other day and to get him through his acute bout of pancreatitis and start him on a renal diet once he felt better.

On December 30, 2024, Tylan was feeling so crummy that in lieu of acupuncture, his vet took blood work and an x-ray (to see if he was constipated as I hadn’t seen him poop lately). Tylan WAS, in fact, pretty constipated. Long story short, he ended up going back to the vet on January 2 to have an enema because the lactulose and miralax weren’t relieving the constipation.

Tylan had been eating less at the end of December as well. We all hoped that the constipation was the key – relieve the constipation and he might want to eat more.

Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Kiss a Ginger Cat Day

 

Kiss a Ginger Cat

Hi everybody!

Do you know what today be? It's Kiss a Ginger Cat Day! And as luck would have it, ME is a ginger cat. So, if you don't have a ginger cat to kiss, you can blow me some. Me will happily accept all the kisses you want to give!

Thursday, January 2, 2025

An Update on Tylan: Continued Purrs and Prayers Needed

 

Tylan

Unfortunately since our last update about Tylan, things have gotten worse.

Tylan was doing relatively okay with the meds he was taking for his pancreatitis flare, but late last week, he started going downhill. 

I noticed he was getting into his litter box, digging around, and meowing mournfully. So, I began to watch him. It's very dangerous if a male cat cannot urinate, so I wanted to make sure he was able to pee. He was urinating fine. But he was constipated. 

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Happy Holidays!

 

Giovanni

We hope you all have a happy and blessed Holiday Season!

Tylan


With love,

Giovanni, Tylan, and Mom Sierra 

Friday, December 13, 2024

Purrs and Prayers for Tylan

Tylan
Purrs and prayers graphic made by Ann of Zoolatry. (Thank you, Ann!)

For the past week or so, Tylan hasn't been feeling well. He was already scheduled for acupuncture and his semi-annual blood work on Tuesday, so I discussed Tylan's eating less and feeling crummy with his vet while we were there, and we agreed it would be a good idea to add an fPLI test (the test for pancreatitis) to his blood work.