Today will be day 4 of our new routine.
4:30am wake-up, give Joey 2ml of anti-nausea medicine, feed Maggie
4:50 start preparing Joey's medicine, water, and antibiotic syringes. (We have to heat up the food)
5:00-5:20ish Feed Joey. We have to take our time when feeding him, or he will get sick.
5:20-5:25 shower. quickly.
5:25-5:35 get dressed and get ready.
5:35-5:45 eat breakfast, if time.
5:45-shoes and socks and a kiss for B (who has hit the snooze button twice by this time)
5:50/6:00 out the door for school.
(Then B takes over the home routine)
School ends at 2:30. Most days I have a meeting/tutoring/homework club until at least 3:30.
After all of that, I head to the vet to pick the little man up. Usually we get home around 6pm. At that point, this is the schedule.
6pm Get Joey in the spare room, open his carrier and run out the room without him following. Shut the back door to the basement and let the dogs outside. Feed Maggie. Get the mail, answering machine messages, and go to the bathroom.
6:15-6:30 Check email/journals while eating some sort of snack
6:30 Joey gets 2 ml anti-nausea, dogs back inside and fed
6:40-7:00 Computer time with dogs in office
7:00 Dogs back outside, feed Joey and give him antibiotics
(Then hopefully by now, B is home.-It is so much easier with two of us here, especially since the dogs make Joey nervous.)
If we are lucky, we get an hour together in the living room. I'm usually checking papers, or falling asleep though...B falls asleep in her recliner until its time for more medicine and food for out little guy, then joins me upstairs for a few hours before we repeat.
3 comments:
Ok, exhausted just reading about this. You guys must be near collapsing! Good luck with everything and hopefully little Joey will pull through.
So exhausting! I hope that he is getting better.
Hi There, I'm sorry to hear about your cat. Our cat had exactly the same thing almost 4 years ago. We, also, did not know that cats could become anorexic. By the time we realized it--well, it's just like your story. Only our ER cost about 2K and they wouldn't take her during the day to do feedings--so, for what it's worth, you lucked out on the vet part.
We did round-the-clock-tubal-feeding for 2 weeks.
It is a crazy kind of existence and is so exhausting.
Good luck and I hope Joey makes a turnaround; we were not so lucky.
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