The end of this year is continuing to hit hard. After losing Aurora, my grandfather, and burying one of my mother's beloved, young cats after a sudden heart issue, I had to bring Arcana indoors for medical treatment because she's been acting Bad.
Her only outward symptom is lethargy and visual impairment, which originally had me thinking she hit her head - I've seen birds act like this after a head bonk. The problem is, she didn't recover within a couple a days like she should have. There were no other symptoms of something else- no discharge from anywhere, no heart or respiratory symptoms, eating/drinking/pooping normally, no sign of parasites in the fecal exam. The vet found yeast cells in a more thorough exam, which we cleared up with some nystatin very quickly. There are no injuries, her bloodflow is fine, she's not septic. A blood panel showed extremely high white blood count, so she's been on doxy, but the WBC actually went /up/ so we've added more antibiotics, along with some meds for assisting liver function. She's stopped eating on her own, which is fine since I have to tube her liquid meds anyway.
But there's nothing concrete that would point to what kind of infection or problem. The others that were in quarantine with her (before I brought her in) have no symptoms at all. We can't really do much beyond broad spectrum meds and hope something hits. They're testing for West Nile and Chlamydia since those were the vet's closest guesses. I'm not super excited about that, so it's time for stress cleaning until I get those results.
Anyway, please keep Arcana in your thoughts, and if you'd like to help out with the steep cost of her vet care, I've got a ko-fi page and paypal.
