Purrkins is in pain!
I have several things to share today! We were doing great on the pain meds (Buprenorphine) every 10.5 -11 hours. We were coming to the end of the pain meds, and I took Purrkins to every 12 hours yesterday. Purrkins was in pain! He meowed, I went to him, he growled and hissed at me and would not let me near him! ALL HUGE SIGNS of PAIN!
I only know this because Purrkins was in pain from a vaccine once and he acted the same way! We ended up on a short course of Prednisolone for the vaccine reaction!
Called the surgeon
Then again this morning he did the same thing. I put him back to 10 hours and called MSU. I had to leave a message for Dr. Rubin. I waited all day for him to call in a panic (we only have one dose left.) I couldn’t stand to think Purrkins was going to have to go without the pain meds.
Mark got home and recalled MSU and Dr. Rubin was in surgery all day, but he would get back to us. Dr. Rubin called back at 4:48 and agreed we need more pain medication, and I can pick it up tomorrow a.m. Unfortunately, Purrkins will have to go on a road trip with me to get his medicine.😬 I can’t leave him so he will go with me.
Clean Margins
The best news we could have ever got we got today! Dr. Rubin got the pathology report back on his leg.
Soft tissue sarcoma low grade and we now have CLEAN MARGINS! 🎉🎊 Our prayers were answered.
Changed to baby T-shirts
I got Purrkins some 0-3 months t-shirts, the onesies were moving around too much on him, but the t-shirt seems to be a better fit and staying put. I will let you know if that changes.
Pooping
TMI disregard the next paragraph if you don’t want to know about Purrkins BMS 💩
Purrkins finally went #2 today seven days with no BM. I gave him 1/16th tsp Miralax on the 6th day and 1/8 tsp on the 7th day. We got BM day 8💩 Purrkins stands on his back two legs to go #2, and he still does the same stance, the only difference now, he holds himself up on the edge of the box with one leg, not two. He started covering his BM before I could get up to take care of it. I did end up helping so he didn’t tire out so much.
Thank you!
We want to thank everyone! Tripawds family, Our family all of the prayers that were put out there were ANSWERED in the way we asked. We couldn’t have done this without all of your support! We look forward to growing old with Purrkins and Saxton!
With gratitude & abundance of love!
