Geriatric Daifoo (2009-06-29)
Daifoo's chronic kidney disease is suddenly deteriorating fast. (WEEP WEEP WEEP T_T)
He's become weak and dropped a lot of weight in a matter of
weeks.
After not eating
anything for one full day, I took him to the vet. At the clinic
he went through another round of CBC (Complete Blood Count) and of
course he screamed his lung out till the vet finished drawing his
blood.
Then the doctor stuck a catheter into his penis to collect urine
for analysis, followed by echo of the bladder. It's very sad to
see him suffer and hiss and growl and struggle through it all, my heart
ached.
The prognosis from all these tests is pretty predictable
though. That Daifoo has worsening kidney problem with no
treatment, and that he'll become weaker and weaker as time passes till
it's goodbye.
All we can do at the moment is to keep up his nutrition
intake. I'm administering liquid diet through a syringe to him
four times a day. The vet says one day it may have to be done
through the vein or under the skin through a needle. You have no
idea how I dread the coming of that day.
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