"Kitkat" wrote in message
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Well, Dudley is doing MUCH MUCH better. Last night, we tried to just
give him a few drops of water to wet his mouth in case it was very dry
and/or had a horrible taste in it from barfing so much. I don't think it
did much except make *me* feel about 1% better. Anyway, he seemed pretty
peaceful and sleepy, so we went to bed. I woke up around 4am and went to
check on him. He was in the same spot sleeping. I started to pet him a
little bit and he started to purr!! What a joyous sound! Then, DH came
in the room to hear the purr and we put a bowl of water right in front
of his face and he had a nice, healthy drink! Oh this was like HEAVEN!
In the morning, he was pretty much still in the same spot sleeping.
DH took him to the vet where he got a bunch of shots: steroid,
famotidine, pain med, and fluids. According to DH he was well behaved at
the vet. DH brought him home and he right away started walking around,
used the litter box, had some food and was acting quite spry! He even
used the cat scratcher! But we knew he was REALLY feeling better when he
jumped up on our bed for a nap. The vet wants him to come in again
tomorrow for more fluids and stuff just to be safe and hopefully that'll
be all. It does look like we'll be keeping him on the steroids long term
though...just a low dose about once a week is the goal.

Well, King Dudley just sauntered in to the room. I best tend to his
royal highness!


Yippeeeee! You guys take such good care of him. Maybe His Highness
will decide to keep you.

I feel so relieved. Please give him a kiss on top of his shiny little
wedge-shaped
head for me.