Oh What a Night!!

Good Lord what a traumatic night. It would seem that we are on a roll of "rubbish things happening".

The poor KC got very sick last night. So sick we were at the emergency vet at 2AM this morning....

We had a completely uneventful day yesterday. All went as it should and the KC came in for the night like a good girl and had her dinner and went to sleep. As she does! We were exhausted and went to bed at 9.30PM.

However at 1AM I got jumped on. The KC was mewing & fussing & crying and I tried to ignore her but eventually got up and came downstairs and realised that she had peed outside of her tray - classic cystitis signs. I then gave her a mouthful of food complete with a dose of the anti inflammatory she had been prescribed just before we went on hols hoping that would help her.

10 mins later though she was back jumping on me meowing really loudly - then she stopped moving & her tail went up & I thought  -Uh Oh - she's peeing! Lights went on & boy was she peeing! She had peed under the window (but complete with blood here) and ALL OVER me & my side of the bed! Her way of saying "Help! I am sick". Called the emergency vet, explained situation & as they could hear her plaintiff mews they said bring her in now.

However the KC is not a good traveller and the emergency vet was 30 mins away even at 2AM. The journey there was simply hell. She started crying loudly as I got her into the car. After 10 mins she was not just crying she was hyperventilating, foaming at the mouth, shaking & peeing herself some more - freaking out basically! The emergency vet said she had never seen such a distressed kitty (who hadn't been in an accident!).

She was so bad the first thing the emergency vet did was give her an opiate injection to calm her down! Then more anti inflammatories (I had done the right thing - phew) and a painkiller and off we went home, £200 poorer, with advice to call our vet first thing. We had a repeat of hell on the journey home but the opiate finally kicked in big time & at 3AM we were back in bed (under the spare room's duvet) with the KC zonked underneath our bed. 5 hours later the alarm went & she was still there - had not moved an inch!

I then called our vet. To cut a long & painful story short the KC is officially stressed. Her cystitis is stress induced!!! She now not only has the necessary anti inflammatory & pain relief medicine she also has what can only be described as Cat Prozac! I must also get a Feliway diffuser (I had a spray - not as effective apparently) and cranberry supplements for cats...!

I gave her the first happy pill about 5 hours ago with her "lunch" and she has been zonked out upstairs ever since.

Who was it who said owning animals was calming & good for lowering blood pressure??! They have never come across the KC have they?!