But I’ve had enough comments and texts about Malice to warrant an update so I will.
She perked up considerably when I arrived at the vets and despite her usually being a vocal cat the nurses were amazed to hear her miaow very croakily for the first time all week. Needless to say she’s not stopped since!
We’ve managed to administer pain killers and eye drops to her open eye, we didn’t even try with the antibiotics as I was told it would be very tricky (they’ve been injecting her, I’ve got pills). She has not eaten or drunk anything, which is what they were hoping she would do so that continues to be a worry.
She has passed urine and faeces – I suspect the first all week. Unfortunately her blindness means it was on the lounge floor rather than in her litter tray 🙁 But good signs I understand nonetheless.
She is still utterly Malice, which was probably my biggest concern. She might not be able to see but she is still the same otherwise. I am hopeful that she might eat something tomorrow so I have positive news to take with me when she is returned to the vets on Monday – if she doesn’t eat I imagine she will need to go back in for tube feeding, if we can get her to eat at home I guess she may be allowed to stay home.
The sewn shut eye is still an unknown quantity – the open eye is very bloodfilled but we think she may have severly limited but there just the same vision in it. She is cannoning off things round the house but using her whiskers and ears and front paws to feel her way around and has ventured round most of the downstairs of the house. I suppose her future and quality of life rely very heavily on some vision or her quickly getting used to blindness. Very heartbreaking to witness her obvious confusion and struggling though 🙁 .
Candle is bemused but seems far more settled to have her home. She went over and investigated all her injuries and even gave her a quick groom. They seem glad to be together again.
The children have been better than I could have imagined. Davies, who can sometimes be slightly cruel to the cats as it is ‘fun’ to tease or chase them has been fantastic – from a childlike bringing Malice some of his favourite toys to make her feel better, to a very practical and helpful sitting stroking her and talking to her gently. He was sobbing on the Friday last week when she was missing which made me realise that despite seeming to not pay much attention to the cats they have been a fixture since before he was born and he is actually very attached to them.
Scarlett is being noisy, careless and narrowly missing treading on Malice every time she walks past, but she is also being very loving and bringing her food, drink, toys and is happy to sit for ages trying to persuade her to eat something and stroking her and talking lovingly to her.
On the car front the news is all OK – as it was Ady’s work car one call to the work insurance company has arranged a collection and delivery of a courtesy car sometime early next week. It does look bad though and it was the single thing that tipped the balance for me today and had me standing on the pavement outside my parents house along the busiest road in Worthing sobbing and being gawped at by all the passers by until I was gently led into the house by my Mother. 🙁 I rarely if ever do helplessness and breaking down but when I do I like to do it in style with a large audience. 🙄
Tomorrow, tomorrow will be a better day.
Let’s face it, tomorrow can *only* be better! Glad Malice seems to be on the mend, but I’m guessing it’s a delicate balance, hope she continues to improve.
hugs for public sobbing.
also glad to hear that malice a bit better.
thank god it was the work car
Nothing like sobbing in style to help the road go upwards!
Ya poor sossige.
Can well imagine how the shock of the car thing tipped you over and sort of good to do it in big style. Hope your mum won’t put it by for too much future leverage!
Awww Malice and the children.
My mum fed our first cat tiny pieces of chopped up liver when she was ill. I guess you’ll have to basically spoonfeed her for a while until she has sussed finding the bowl by smell.
(((((((Hugs to you all)))))))
We’re away from Wednesday to Sunday this week, but we’ll sort something out for the week after?
I got some high calorie hydrolysed protein stuff from the vet for Evie when she was ill – I mixed it up with warm water ’til it was fairly liquid then syringe fed her, it worked quite well. You can gradually make it less solid so they can start lapping it up when they are stronger. I think it was called Hill’s Canine/Feline a/d.
*Flings arms around Nic* – poor you 🙁