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I have to be up at 6am for work tomorrow. That’s barely 6 hours from now. I can’t sleep because I’m too worried about our little boy that’s in the next room. We were told to keep him in tight quarters so that he’s unable to hurt himself. It’s so hard not having him in here, I keep thinking I hear him cry but I checked on him and he’s asleep. I was looking at pictures of him (stupid me) and I just don’t know what I would have done if he would have died yesterday. It hurts my tummy and heart just thinking of anything happening to such a perfect little kitten. Sigh..
Wyatt Update: We just got home. He’s been out of the cage for about ten minutes or so. He was walking around looking at stuff for awhile and then he got up on our bed. We have to watch for the “petite seizures” that he was having before that we never noticed. We have an antibiotic and liver medicine for him. And we need to schedule blood work in the next 3-5 days to check his liver function. If it’s okay then it was a toxin. If not, then he needs more tests for liver disease. Thank you to everyone that’s supported us.
As most of you know, we’ve had our white kitten, Wyatt, for a little over two months now. Yesterday afternoon, while I was at work, he had a seizure. My girlfriend was there when it happened. She said his eyes were rolling back in his head, he wouldn’t stop shaking, his tongue was hanging out of his mouth, and it was the scariest thing she had ever seen. At one point, she thought she had lost him.
Despite the money issue, both of us having hardly enough money to pay our bills, he was taken to the animal hospital right away. Thank God for that because they told us that if it had gone on any longer, then it could have been fatal.
My girlfriend was there for five and a half hours when we finally left last night. I left work as soon as I could and ended up being there for over four hours. What we know at this point is that he has a heart murmur that we didn’t know about. That he’s been having seizures all of his life that we haven’t realized were seizures. When his head bobbed as a kitten, we asked our vet about it and he said that it was normal until a certain age. Apparently that really is a type of seizure. Another that he did a good amount enough that we all noticed it, was what they call “star-gazing” where they look around at nothing for a longer period of time than other kittens.
The other issue was that his liver and kidney functions were running at an extremely abnormal level. We have black mold in our apartment that we just noticed last week. It’s from when the hurricane hit and water leaked in through the air conditioner onto the carpet. We called a few days ago to get maintenance in, stating that it was an emergency, and they said that it would take 24-48 hours. The vet thinks that maybe the toxins in the black mold are what caused some of those issues at this point. Despite the $900 charge.. we left him overnight so he could get the liver medication, seizure medication, and re-hydration fluids that he needed intravenously.
My girlfriend called very early this morning to get an update, and they said that he’s still stable but isn’t acting normal yet. They said if the toxins are what did it, then it could take 12+ hours for them to leave his body. So they’re monitoring him until my girlfriend can pick him up this afternoon. Both of us were supposed to work super early to super late today. She’s getting off early so she can get him. The only thing we’re worried about is leaving him home alone tomorrow since we both work all day.
In the end, he could have epilepsy which means that he’s going to continue having seizures his whole life which can be controlled with medication. The vet said that even in the best controlled environments, they’re still going to have episodes like that and he explained that we are to let them go through the seizure and just call their name. Which is so scary to even think about for me :/ The other possibility is that he has heart disease. Definitely something I don’t want to think about. He said that if that’s what it is then we have to go a whole other route, and of course that it would significantly shorten his life span.
I’m not sure who’s actually going to read this, but I just needed to write all of this down. I got no sleep last night worrying about the poor little baby. He normally sleeps on my pillow or my girlfriend’s pillow sound asleep with us :( He loves us just as much as we love him. And even if we don’t have a thousand dollars right now, we’re going to find a way to make him as healthy as he can be and not just get rid of him because he’s a “stress”. He’s our baby boy and we are going to do everything we can to give him the best life that he can have.
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