Allow Me To Lament

This is a bit off topic (i.e. it's not really Luke related) but it's bugging the heck out of me.

As you probably know by now, we have two cats, Marian and Dagmar. A few days ago, Marian started vomiting and we could not figure out why. Dagmar started vomiting on Tuesday. I called the vet, got an appointment, and took both kitties in for a check up. They looked at Marian's bloodwork since she was the one who was getting sick the most and found she has a lowered white blood cell count. This is often indicative of feline leukemia, but since she tested negative for it and was vaccinated against it in 2008, it's been ruled out.

The doc figures she has an infection of some sort and the white blood cells have moved to help it, thus why they were lowered in the area they took blood from. I got this big bottle of antibiotics and was told to give each cat a certain amount twice daily. Dagmar is believed to be throwing up because Marian is and it's stressing her out, but they wanted to be safe rather than sorry.

I gave them their meds last night. Both cats started foaming at the mouth and sprinted away from me. Dagmar started dry heaving. Both were smacking their lips and refused to go near me, even though I was trying to clean them up. At first I thought I'd just poisoned them, but upon reading (yay Internet!) I found this is perfectly normal behavior. Cats create a lot of spit when they don't like the flavor of something. Great. Someone on the Regretsy forums (I love those folks) gave me the suggestion to give some water via syringe right after I inject the liquid meds down her throat. Might create less spit.

I tried this this morning and yes, it does create less spit. However, the cats became VERY angry towards me and wouldn't go near me. Not even to get food. Since Marian in particular is on a lower calorie diet, I worry about her not eating. I called the vet and he said I could try mixing the meds with their food. After injecting the stuff onto their food, neither cat will go near their bowl. I ended up injecting meds down Marian's throat just to make sure she got some. She's mad as hell, but I'd rather her get better.

Luke has been rather whiny all day due to toothing pain. So to sum up- I have two cats who are angry over meds and a hurting baby who won't stop crying.

What a wonderful week thus far.