i feel much better now! thank you for your kind words my dudes.

but my best friend with whom i live got covid. also the infection(s) i got some time ago was from the stray cat we took under our care a few weeks ago and she needs a lot of attention, thoughtful treatment and veterinary assistance aka weekly examination and blood tests etc. she has feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), acute intestinal infection, severe liver damage, middle ear otitis, vestibular syndrome, a little skull deformation (and only one eye) and she’s completely deaf.

this situation takes a lot of time and money and mental calories of mine since i take care of both the cat and my bro so bc of the chores i didn’t even have time to draw in the last three days or so and today i had to take my sedatives at some point to go through it altogether with the news from ukraine and poland. i write this to let you know that i’m very grateful for all of your comments and messages but i have no power to communicate well at the moment — and also the projects aka commissions are going to be delayed a bit more. i didn’t forget about anything my dudes! thank you for your patience.

gonna copy the messages i sent to and to the vet — just in case someone is interested in the cat situation. (she is wonderful and she’s potentially looking for a new home after she’s recovered!)

>me and my friend met her on the street around three weeks ago. she had severe coordination issues and was crying for help. due my own experience i can’t imagine anything more terrifying than not being able to control your own body and not realizing where you are and what’s going on in the same time. so there was no way i could pass through? i’m happy she’s with us but this whole situation is going to be an important life lesson for me since it’s the first time the animal i bring home to help to needs this amount of very specific and astonishingly expensive treatment (could be worse tho… but i can forget about top surgery for another couple of years), contains that danger in its organism for me and my friends and the animals who live with us already. but!!! i really hope that the treatment will help her and i keep my fingers crossed despite there’s no way she recovers to be in absolutely healthy and independent state with the damage to the nervous system she already has at this point.

i’d like to say she’s gonna live with me forever now but i’m not in my home country and i have no idea when i’ll be able to go back home (?? months? years? decades?) and also i don’t know for how long i can stay in the country i’m currently in now. and you know how dangerous airplane flights are for animals… even for the ones without any special physical conditions.

> we met her on the street on october the 19th. she had severe vestibular syndrome symptoms and screamed. we took her to the closest veterinary clinic immediately. they made two injections (and another two approximately on october the 22th) and she was left in their feline hostel until october the 24th. they said there’s no need in analysis despite i asked them about it and i’m sorry i gave her in their hands. the only medication they prescribed was oridermyl. i asked for basic vaccines for her (which were a half of the injections they did i hope) and they said she’ll be ready to contact with another cat. since october the 24th despite their words she lives separately on our balcony (a glassed and warm one) with a strict quarantine — there’re a cat and a dog in the flat.

on october the 30th i noticed that her coordination issues worsened and got the feeling the treatment is wrong. she sneezed a lot. a few times i caught her sneezing with a little blood (capillary judging by its amount and color). she had diarrhea the whole time (at the hostel as well). also she’s absolutely deaf. there is a significant amount of serum and dirt in both of her ears. more and more comes out each time i clean them. sometimes there are scratching noises of her teeth when she eats; probably she had a skull trauma since she’s missing one eye as well. she has Great, enormous appetite this whole time.

despite we did our best to quarantine (masks, gloves, antiseptic, boiling her bowls, cleaning the balcony) me and my friends i live with got sick with the same symptoms — middle ear otitis, trigeminal nerve pains, diarrhea. i also got cystitis and severe abdominal pains. my immune system is weak and i still deal with otitis since then. also another cat was sneezing a bit and we’re worried it could be fip virus. what can we do to help her since the symptoms are weak and appeared only a couple of days ago? (she also might got a cold while spending time on another balcony — a cold one).

her weight on november the 1st — 2,6kg.

since november the 1st i started a new treatment for the one-eyed cat myself:

everyday:
* augmentine (25-30mg twice a day)
* chophytol artichoke hepatoprotector (100mg once a day)
* ear and chin cleaning with andorex chlorhexidine (once a day)
* siprogut ear-drops (twice a day)

twice a week (separately):
* vitamin B12 (250mkg)
* vitamin B2 (0,4mg)
* folic acid (200mkg)

i’ve started to feed her with boiled chicken breasts with rice instead of the wet food for sterilized cats.

since november the 1st i used to give her these medications as well:
* 250mg of smecta (reflor analog) twice a day (stopped after diarrhea was gone)
* acidophilus probiotic twice a day (stopped after diarrhea was gone)
* otrivine pediatric 0,5mg one a day (stopped after two days since her nose got red a bit)
* oridermyl (stopped after i realized it is oily and prevents ear cleaning)
* chamomile tea solution for ears and chin cleaning (was replaced with andorex chlorhexidine)


the dynamic was significantly positive. but on november the 5th i noticed her hind legs were slipping and coordination degraded back and got her to the veterinary academy. i was told to continue the current treatment and got the analyses and x-ray.

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atm we have a contact with a wonderful feline specialist at the veterinary academy and she’s getting the newest FIP treatment as well as weekly examinations <з