13/08/2025
Our beautiful old lady gave us such a fright this afternoon but thankfully she lives to fight another day. For the past year Lady P has been back and forth to our vet every few months as she keeps losing weight. We've had her bloods done numerous times and she has had scans etc. Everything always comes back good especially for a lady of 18yrs old. So she has had many and varied treatments to help her. However this last week her weight dropped dramatically and then we noticed she seemed to be in pain so off to the vet again. Yet again bloods good, heart good, kidneys and liver all good. So it was decided she would go on the minimum yet still effective dose of gabapentin to help with any pain. I gave her the first dose at 1pm but at 2.30pm she collapsed and I was able to lift her and baby her without a peep out of her. This is so NOT Lady P, normally if you try to baby her she screams the house down calling us all the filthy humans of the day. I go get Mark and we sit with her in the sun, showering her with love, fully expecting her to pass in my arms as I phone our vet. They say to bring her straight in so off we race thinking our beautiful Queen is on her final journey. Thankfully, it turns out she was simply off her nut on the gabapentin 😁. We have learned a valuable lesson today and are so grateful to still have our little old lady with us. We've been doing this 11 years with sick cats but we are very aware that we never stop learning. Huge love and thanks to our vet Kieron who put up with my neurotic behaviour this afternoon, he'll soon realise its par for the course for me 🤣
