Little Girl is leaky

[cjsmith]

We're doing subcutaneous fluids for Little Girl twice a week, to help out her ailing kidneys. I've now administered the fluids on my own twice.

She leaks.

[LJ-CUT TEXT="Sometimes it's my fault. Warning, needle talk."]
The most recent time was totally my fault. I was staring at the fluid level in the bag to see if it was alllll the way down to the line yet, and the needle fell out of the cat, and the last tablespoon of Ringer's poured onto my carpet. Oops. :-)

But the previous time I'm not sure what I could have done differently. It was all in there, and then, gradually throughout the evening, an awful lot of it dripped out down her back. She showed no discomfort at all, but I was a bit unhappy about it. My cat leaks.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh odd: my vet recommended going to daily "temporarily" during the first bout of this UTI. I wonder if that's a special case.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but my kitty is completely different than yours and mine isn't being done because of a UTI. Spike has advanced kidney disease, and that's what I was thinking about. You won't be doing subq forever, will you? I will be doing this, well, until... So if I go to everyday I can't back off from it because her disease is so advanced.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My kitty has (so far) mild kidney disease. The twice-a-week is because of that; the idea of temporarily going daily was just for the UTI.

My sympathies. Advanced kidney disease is no fun.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

It's not too bad, but she's 19 and I know I am on limited time. I get really freaking emotional about it though, and that's completely nuts. But she's my kid.