Sorry to hear about Ava and Molly, Meri.
Millie is very up and down. I don't feel any further forward than we were 3 weeks ago when she had the camera down and they found the ulcers. We had a run of 5 days when she kept everything down, 5 days when she kept being sick, a few more days when she kept everything down but on 1st January she started being sick again and we haven't had a day since when she hasn't been sick at least twice.
She isn't eating a huge amount and I don't feel that she has put any weight on - we can never get her to stay on the scales at the vets long enough. I am going to weigh her with me tonight.
I am spending around 6 hours a day giving medicine, waiting and feeding and it is really getting me down. I have to be up by 5.45am to give the first dose of medicine to get it all in before work.
She isn't herself now - she loves going for walks but is very subdued the rest of the time.
She had more blood tests done on Saturday but they have all come back negative so I assume that it is just the ulcers causing the problems but I don't see how we can get over it. When she is sick it aggrevates the ulcers which means the next time she eats, she is sick and the cycle continues.
I am going to ring the vets again today to speak to the vet I saw on Saturday as he was very concerned about her and arranged the blood tests (he was off yesterday). The other vets keep telling me to persevere but how long for? She (and we) really can't go on like this.
And the frustrating thing is - the bandages have come off now and the leg is doing really well.
It is very tense in our house at the moment. I have lost almost a stone over the past four weeks and just don't really sleep anymore.