supplements

I got the package from the homeopathic vet today. He's going to take Ecliptex 2-3 times a day for his liver and Daily Antioxidants vitamins twice a day. They're both horse pills (how did she know?) so I need to crush them and slip them into his food. I'm going to try meat-flavored baby foods. Hopefully it will disguise the supplement enough that he'll eat it, and I won't have to worry if he doesn't finish it and Briana does!

The antioxidants contain:

Vitamin C . . . . . 250 mg
Vitamin E . . . . . 100IU
Zinc . . . . . . . . 10 mg
Selenium . . . . . 100 mcg
Carotenoids . . . . 5000IU
N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine . 50 mg
L-Glutathione . . . . 10 mg
Coenzyme Q-10 . . . . 5 mg
Alpha Lipoic Acid . . 5 mg
Turmeric Root 10:1 (Curcuminoids, from 200 mg) . . 20 mg
Ginger Root 5:1 (Gingerols, from 100 mg) . . . . . 20 mg
Rosemary 4:1 (Rosmarinic Acids, from 40 0mg) . . 10 mg
Milk Thistle Seed 4:1 (Silymarins, from 40 mg) . . 10 mg
Grape Seed Extract 5:1 (Resveratrol, from 50 mgs) 10 mg


I'm not positive about the Ecliptex since they didn't come in a bottle, but I Googled it and I think it contains:

Eclipta Concentrate Han Lian Cao
Milk Thistle seed (Sylibum) Sylibum marianum
Curcuma tuber Yu Jin
Salvia root Dan Shen
Lycium Fruit Gou Qi Zi
Ligustrum fruit Nu Zhen Zi
Bupleurum root Chai Hu
Schizandra fruit Wu Wei Zi
Tienchi Ginseng root San Qi
Tang-kuei root Dang Gui
Plantago Seed Che Qian Zi
Licorice root Gan Cao

ultrasound

I talked to Rufus' vet this morning and we're going to do the ultrasound next week. He'll have his bloodwork done at the same time. Poor little fella.

The vet wants to keep his meds the same. He said if he changed anything, it would be to a different steroid. He said the only side effects I need to watch out for are with the Leukeran. Vomitting, inappetance, etc.

anxiety and panic

I got a copy of Rufus' medical record on Thursday so I could share it with the homeopathic vet. Reading it over was excruciating and also funny. The comments from the vets at his annual exams were funny:

--his appetite is good (too good)
--he eats r/d but also gets into the other cats' food
--he's eating less than normal, but still as much as a normal cat"
--When he was in the hospital and not supposed to eat before surgery
"Rufus got into something after midnight and threw it up."
(Even locked in a cage my little Foodini can find something to eat.)

It was excruciating to see the progression of his illness. I thought he had started showing symptoms in January, but it was actually last August. That's when he had the ultrasound. His liver levels are really elevated. The normal ranges are somewhere under 100 and he's in the 240s on one and 600s on the other. I'm going to call the vet tomorrow and talk about changing his medications and maybe doing the ultrasound.