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Monday, August 12, 2013

Purrs for Yoko Please


UPDATE - Long day and thank you all for your purrs.  I had to work tonight after taking Yoko to the new vet who was very kind and gentle with her.  She does have some dental issues (tooth abscess)  that will need to be addressed but he did find bacteria and crystals in her urine - so we are on 2 weeks of antibiotics, which will help her mouth and UTI plus something called D mannose to help rid deep bacteria from her bladder and possibly kidneys - I guess bacteria are attracted to this and attach to the D mannose and get flushed out.  Then he put her on another immune boosting algae supplement. We have to bring a urine sample back in 10 days and then see what is going on. Yoko already seems a bit perkier and hopefully we can stop this low grade infection once and for all. 

In June Yoko who has CRF and high normal thyroid, had symptoms of a UTI and the vet started her on antibiotics.  I continued it for 4 weeks as she also had white blood cells in her urine.  We stopped the antibiotic and withing a week her symptoms were back.  Another round of antibiotics and this time she seemed to be over it but today the symptoms are back after 2 1/2 weeks of no symptoms.  We will be trying a new holistic vet to see if he can find out what this is.  I don't want to have to keep dosing her with antibiotics.

She went thru this last year in August with major symptoms - incontinence, vomiting, straining - the works.  After 4 weeks of antibiotics she was much much better but all along the urine showed no bacteria altho one vet said if it was in the kidney, the urine might not show any bacteria.

We are just hoping we can help make her more comfy and find out what is going on here.  Keep her in your thoughts.

28 comments:

  1. Sending lot of (((purrs))) to Yoko <3 <3 <3
    XOXO

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  2. We are sending lots of purrs for a solution to what is going on.

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  3. Poor Yoko. Purring for this sweet little cat.

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  4. Oh, poor sweetie, she'd feel so miserable.

    Purrs from the boys and positive vibes/Light from me. Fingers and paws crossed for her.

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  5. Purrrrrrrs!
    Yoko will stay better!

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  6. Of course we will. We love you, Yoko, and will keep you in our thoughts, purrs and prayers. Hugs to you all.

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  7. Paws crossed! Just a thought, our buddy Steve (a person) had chronic UTIs and it was from an intestinal abscess--has Yoko had an x-ray?

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  8. Oh no. We are all sending our best purrs and prayers to dear Yoko. We sure hope it gets figured out really soon.

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  9. We're purring for Yoko. We hope the holistic vet has a good solution.

    The Florida Furkids

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  10. Sending sweet healing purrs your way Yoko!

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  11. Oh poor Yoko, we hope the new holistic vet can figure out what the problem is and make her better.

    Sending lots of healing purrs her way.

    Cindi Lou & The Kitty Krew

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  12. We know you're very worried, and we're purring loudly for Yoko.

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  13. Sending healing purrz. Oh Yoko! Hoping you're feeling better.

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  14. What a sweet old girl, it's so hard when you just can't figure it out and they are suffering. Purring for her.

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  15. We sure do send tons of purrs to Yoko. So glad you liked the new vet. Glad to hear she already feels better. It sounds like a great vet. Take Care.

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  16. We are sending many purrs to Yoko and hope she feels better soon.
    Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx

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  17. Poor Yoko. We hope she feels better soon.

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  18. More healing purrs for Yoko, we sure hope you can discover what the problem is and get it cured.

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  19. yoko...we most shirley can send purrz, long with de blessings oh st francis....XOXO

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  20. I soooo wish that the kitties in the blog-o-sphere would be well. Our hearts are hurting with all of the illnesses. Sending purrs and prayers

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  21. Sending up prayers for sweet Yoko and we hope she is all better very, very soon. Hugs and nose kisses

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  22. Pour Yoko.. Dental problems make a lot of pain! Can you visit us please?
    rinrinflu.blogspot.com

    muchos besitos y cuidate!

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  23. Sending a whole bundle of purrs and prayers for Yoko.

    Sweet darling, my fingers and toes are crossed for you.

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