I don’t know. I just don’t know. She’s still showing little bits of progress. But then she has a bad day and my hope balloon is quickly deflated. Monday was bad, mostly in the morning. As the day progressed she got a little better. Yesterday morning into the early afternoon was horrible.
She was back to being restless and she wouldn’t sleep or lay her head down. She went outside for a while, wandering around the yard. I guess she did this the past weekend and Brian said she looked like she was having a good time, enjoying being outside again. I don’t know if what she was doing yesterday was the same thing she was doing this weekend, but if it was, she looked more confused and lost than happy. It was one of those times that thought kept bouncing around my head “is it time?”. I’m glad I have Brian to talk it out with. He’s more impartial than I am, or maybe more distant. I’m here with her all day, he mostly sees her at night. He sees her when she’s feeling better. I see how hard it seems to be for her (and me).
But this morning, she actually ate more kibble at one sitting than she has in a month. I’m not talking about a lot. At most she’d eat maybe ten pieces of kibble at a time. This morning she ate about twice that. That’s good. But, as far as I’m concerned, it’s still not enough.
I’d love to leave a bowl of this out for her to eat anytime she wanted, but the other cats consider it a treat and they’d have it all gone in a matter of minutes and we’d be left with her still not getting enough to eat. I’ve thought about moving her to the bathroom, but she’d be unhappy in a room with the door shut all of the time. It just wouldn’t be fair to her. I could leave her in the office and shut the door, but there would go the catcam and officecam.
I so look forward to a day where none of the cats need scheduled meds or scheduled times of being poked with a syringe. We had Junior on insulin for over two years, then DeeJay with his three years plus of fluids, now Annie. After Annie, I hope it’s a long time before I have to do this again.
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