I saw the V-E-T yesterday

hello everycat,

I saw the V-E-T yesterday, it was a rather discouraging visit. Mom got me out of my cage, and the vet held me up, shook her head, and said "Oooh, this doesn't look good." Mommy's heart just sunk when she heard those words come out of the vets mouth, you know it's not good when even the vet doesn't have much hope. Well, mommy wants to talk now, ttyl!
After talking with the vet at the shelter for a few minutes, she said that Sunshine might have aspirated milk before I got her. There were some volunteers who fed them before I got there, and I know for sure that at least one of them feeds them wrong on a regular basis (at a bad angle, making it easy for the kittens to aspirate the milk into their lungs.) The reason I am starting to believe this, is that if this were a URI, then Smokey (who is in a kennel with her) would be just as sick as Sunshine by now. Sunshine was also crawling all over Sapphy a couple days ago (as you can see in his video) and he isn't showing any symptoms of being sick. If she aspirated, then most likely, this has turned into pneumonia. I don't think that their is anything that we can do for her if this is the case, i've actually never dealt with a kitten that has aspirated, because they usually don't let the volunteers handle or feed the kittens before I get there to pick them up. As for Sunny's fate, i'm not sure, I don't believe that there is any way to tell at this point. We just need to hope that she can continue to eat and breathe without too much stress on her poor little body. Keep up the purrs guys!
Babypurrs and headbonks,
Sunshine and mom

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