Abby: Post-Endoscopy Day 9

It's been 3 days since Abby had her shot of anti-vomit medication ;)
Thankfully, she has taken well to the prescriptive canned food. I am adjusting her canned food and L-Emental ratio each day so that she is taking more of the former. Hopefully, she will feel more substantiated and put on a little weight soon

Abby: Post-Endoscopy Day 7 - Milestone

Today marks a key milestone for Abby - her first post-endoscopy review. Dr Lee is satisfied with her progress and has expanded her diet to include prescriptive canned food and mashed papaya And if she takes well to the changes, perhaps she can have some mashed pumpkin too.

Next week will be another milestone for Abby when she returns to do another endoscopy to view how her esophagus is healing. Until then, my key task now will be to help her weaned onto her new diet and regain some weight.

Abby in a Pram

After being cooped up in the house for so long, I decided to bring her out for some fresh air - in a pram - as I was worried that she will pick up some infection when she licks the ground. She attracted looks of curiosity, surprise, disbelief (?), even smirks... I choose to ignore - why do I need to account to them? Someone even laughed that she is like a baby. He shut up when he saw the feeding tube protruding from Abby's neck. I hope he choked on those words...

Abby: Post-Endoscopy Day 5

Abby started fine today, but her condition seemed to deteriorate from evening onwards. She puked a bit of her dinner, refused water - which is so unlike her - and was generally lethargic.

Unsure if the pain had returned or if she is feeling nauseous, I decided to give her a jab so that she feels more comfortable. And the session turned out to be a heart-stopping episode. Somehow a "vaccuum" developed in the syringe and when I released the pressure, her blood was drawn back into the syringe! Almost freaked out when I saw a stream of red flowing into the syringe and tinting the contents pinkish-red. Thankfully I still have enough sense to apply pressure and quickly remove the needle.

Brought her out for some fresh air, hopefully to cheer her up after being cooped up in the house for so many days. She was not as enthusiastic as before and fell asleep soon after returning home. And she whimpered in her sleep. Hopefully, she will have a restful night like yester...

Abby: Post-Endoscopy Day 4

Abby is finally able to sleep through the night without any painkillers :D
Her body has been pumped with so much medications for the past week and I'm happy that she's finally able to hold one off.

Abby: Post Endoscopy Day 3

It has been almost 4 days since Abby last pooped. Gotten some gel from ARC to insert into her rectum to help her poop. The stuff worked like magic - she pooped within 5 seconds! Brownish, watery, smelly poop. Think she feels lighter and happier to have these toxins removed from her body.

She seems a little more cheerful today. Fingers crossed that her condition will continue to improve.

Sweet Uno

Uno somehow seems to know that the family is going through a difficult period and has been an exceptionally obedient boy. He did not throw a fit when he saw us going out with Abby (to the vet, but of course he wouldn't know) and leaving him behind, put up with Abby's teases and harassment whenever she feels like it, wait patiently till I'm done with Abby's feeding, jabs etc before he comes over for a pat/belly rub... I must admit that we have sort of neglected him these past days and when he saw me with his leash this morning, he was almost bursting with joy! We are so blessed to have him :)