It is confirmed. I am definitely more stress when Mochi is down with a flu than when the kids do. The kids can tell me what's wrong, be persuaded to eat and they take medicine themselves. Mochi does none of these. Zzzzz.
After we came back from the clinic, Mochi spent the night in our room. He was still lethargic and was sleeping in our bed before bedtime. I thought his breathing sounded much better and was very pleased.
I fell asleep while tucking Zaky to bed and Mochi has taken my space in my bed when I went back at 1+am. By then, his breathing was bad again. He was nice enough to give me back my space; I let him out of the room. I ended up following him with a bowl of steaming hot water, hoping that it would ease his blocked nose. I think I did little help. It took me a long while before I fell back to sleep. Mochi stole my sleep.
Daddy Lim woke me up early the next morning bcos medicine feeding is not an individual feat.
The tame Mochi that we saw at the clinic disappeared. He struggled while I held him down and Daddy Lim pryed his mouth opened to pop in the quarter pill. We did it! But the struggled left Mochi breathless and he ended up grasping for air. Not at all a pretty sight or sound to hear. After he was able to breath better, we had to hold him down for round 2 and the antibiotics left plenty of mess.
We left out his water and bfast. He was totally not interested. He wasn't even interested in his snacks.
He eyed me with contempt when I tried running after him with his food and water bowl. We also tried hand feeding him. He must be fed up with me that he actually used his paw to push away my hand. Lol.
Later in the morning, I had to get the kids' help to coax Mochi to eat. I was prepared to bring him back to the vet if he still refuses to eat by the following day. Thankfully, Nana said that he appeared to eat some.
I even compared the before and after photo to be sure. Ya, I think he ate a little. Aunty J had been a great support over the last few days and said that every little food intake is worth a celebration. I couldn't agree more. Give me the pom pom.
Nana said that Mochi sneezed like over 20x and sprayed his saliva everywhere.
Ok, I hope that means that the medicine is working to loosen his congestion and he is expelling it.
When home, I found him curled up in our bed.
I had to wait for Daddy Lim to be home to feed Mochi medicine. Every single medicine feeding is a struggle. He was still not interested in his food.
I never thought that I would be so obsessed with my cat eating food. Zzzzzz...
I saw him approached the food bowl a few times but he merely smelled it (with whatever little sense of smell he is left with) and walked away. Popo hand fed him some snacks before bed. Hooray! Even snacks eating is a celebratory act.
Interestingly, he "asked" to sleep in his cage. Popo gave him more snacks, which he took. Oh yes, for once, he can have all the snacks that he wanted.
This morning, Daddy Lim woke me up early for the 3rd round of medicine feeding. Despite being the 3rd time, we still struggle. Zzzzzz... the pills are to be taken until his nose is unblocked, I think we have a few more times to go. We have dosage for up to 8 days. The antibiotics have to be taken for 2 full weeks and we are only on day 2. Zzzzzz..
This morning, we heard Mochi meowed. That was so sweet bcos it had been a while. The flu has stolen his meow. Speedy recovery, pls. Why did I agree to a pet? Hmmm....
Mummy Lim
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