Update on Cooper: he's getting a skin infection from the injections of lasix, just what Myrna Loy got last June/July (see the Cat Living with HCM FB pg and blog posts for last summer.) Luckily, for him, we're aware of what they are and are acting quickly before they develop into large, ugly infected lesions. With Myrna, we didn't know what the dry patches were and then they developed large bloody, pussy bumps (as ugly as it sounds-there are photos at the FB and blog.) We believe it might be because we ran out of the Chlorhexadine pads we wiped the skin with before injecting. We continued to inject despite not having the pads. Now he's off injections for a week until the lesions heal; on Clavamox for a week but at a low dose of 62.5 mg and not the 125mg that Myrna took last summer (which created diarrhea, made her very nauseous, and after a week, we had to stop.) And once healed, we'll try again. Meanwhile, he's on 18mg of lasix QID (four times a day.) We're monitoring his breathing and it's difficult to know when he's congested and breathing fast and when he's just breathing fast. His breathing rate is between 10-15 when it should be 6-10.
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| Cooper in the water pipes in the basement |
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