Thriving!

Minou - January 12, 2015

Minou is doing better than we had hoped only a month ago. I began treating her twice daily with the antibiotic doxycycline two weeks after the long lasting antibiotic shot convenia was administered by our veterinarian.

Because Minou turned up her nose at the taste (fish & marshamallow), I mix tuna with her regular Fancy Feast cat food, and added a second meal to deliver the second dose. I also experimented with gradually reducing her daily dose of prednisolone, now 0.5 ml daily, down from 0.8 ml.

She seems better than she's been for at least 18 months. As a precautionary measure, Dr. Whitman renewed the doxycycline prescription and I hopefully mentioned that perhaps the underlying problem was a bacterial infection all along.  In a week of so, when the weather's warmer, we'll investigate the possibility of a bad tooth, sometimes the cause of these infections. The vet cautioned that Minou's apparent good health doesn't negate the possibility of a slowly progressing cancer.

Our little cat is more energetic, sleeping less and presenting herself for grooming. For now, we're all happy that she's doing so well, thanks to medical care superior to what's available for most of the world's children.