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Momma's first kitten

I'm Sick :-(

I was doing really well, then suddenly on Sunday I stopped eating. Mom took me to my food, I smelled it and gagged!

That was 4 days ago. Since then, mom has tried to feed me different brands and flavors of canned food, dry food, baby food, chicken, yogurt, raw, and I won't eat. I have diarrhea. Mom is syringe feeding me.

We went to the vet last night and I'm on an antibiotic even tho my stool sample was negative for parasites. They might do one more test on my stool, they said they'd call mom tomorrow.

Mom gives me baby food and pedialyte, slippery elm, and probiotics by syringe. I hate it. The vet gave me sub q fluids and a b-complex vitamin shot. He tested my blood, and said everything looked pretty normal except for a slightly elevated liver enzyme.

Mom is a nervous wreck, she doesn't know if I have a simple kitty illness or a terrible fatal disease. I'm a little playful, but yesterday and today I mostly sleep.

This is very reminiscent to mom of Oscar, the cat who died in August. He also stopped eating well and had a liver disease. Mom was looking forward to having a healthy kitten. She got me instead.

I'm new!!!

I'm new here at this house. The lady says I'm the first kitten she's ever had. There is another kitty, Charlie, who I have seen but haven't really met yet. The lady says she got Charlie when he was 11 months old from a shelter, and he was found on a street in Chicago.

There was another cat I guess who died about 2 months before I got here. The lady found him in an alley in Chicago and guessed that he was about 1 year old. He was a persian and I'm part ragdoll!

So that makes me the first kitten and the first pet she ever had that she actually knows the background of.

Right now the big loud sucky machine is around me. So I gotta go hide.....