Your Worst Nightmare

When we first got Kiara she slept all the time which is fairly normal with small kittens but as we fed her and took care of her she started to act bigger. She was crawling around and trying to play with us and even using the litter box on her own! One day however, she wasn't acting like that again. She had slept through the night but was still sleeping when we got up. We figured she needed to eat and so we started poking at her. She would kind of open her eyes up at us and then go back to sleep. She seemed really lethargic. Marc called the vet because he was concerned about her. They advised us to bring her in but I needed a second opinion. I called my Dad and he said it wouldn't hurt to go get her checked out. We started getting things together to leave and by the time we left Kiara didn't even have enough strength to stand and was having a hard time even keeping her head up. We laid her on the bed to put our shoes on and she laid on her side and started spinning herself in circles but it was almost as if she was seizing. We rushed right over and they took her to the back without even making it through a nurse check up. The next thing we knew they were telling us it didn't look good and they were going to need to take some blood samples to see what was wrong. When we brought her in her pulse was low, her temperature was low, her glucose levels weren't even on the chart, and the grim faces just kept coming. We ended up having to leave her there while they tried to get her better. They called to let us know they were able to get an IV in her as well as a catheter. When we got her back they were able to get her heart rate back up, as well as her temperature. They found out she didn't have AIDS or Leukemia. He blood sugar levels were a little low and so they gave us a sugar substance to give her if she started acting suspicious again. We brought her home and were so grateful to have her back. But can I tell you she looked so pitiful with her bandages on her legs. She also didn't have the greatest stability when she came home. She would shake and then just fall over on her side. It made us so sad to see her this way and yet so grateful to even have her still alive and in our lives. We have only had her a short while and yet she feels like part of our family now. Marc and I will have to trade off staying up through the night with her so she can be fed every hour until she recovers completely. So if we seem a little grouchy or sleep deprived we know who to blame now.