This last week I’ve been waking up around 6am, prepare Misu’s three medications, give him his medications and water flush, try to entice him with some wet cat food and when that fails, draw up his tube feeds, warm it in the microwave for 12 seconds, make my coffee, then sit down to feed him while he is sitting in my lap for about 15-20 minutes while I’m having my coffee, give him an additional 10-15 ml of water then let him sit in my lap for an additional 15 minutes to make sure his stomach tolerated the food and water.

My morning routine includes watching Animal Planet’s It’s Me or the Dog from 6:30-7am and Underdog to Wonderdog 7am-8am before heading to work.

Ron feeds him at lunchtime and I usually feed him when I get home from work then Ron will give him his last feeding around 11pm-12am.

Misu had a bit of a setback at lunchtime and vomited everything in his stomach about 30 minutes after Ron finished feeding him. We hope he doesn’t have some sort of obstruction since there were some cat treats he had eaten the day before in what he threw up.

I didn’t realize we were supposed to skip a feeding but gave him half of the required amount of tube feeds when I got back from work. He seemed okay but didn’t want to chance giving him the whole thing.

I hope this incident won’t set his recovery back. His jaundice really does look a lot better and he seems to be gaining weight.

So Misu went to the vet today to get his nasogastric feeding tube checked out since it was starting to come out after the suture broke. The vets tried to push it back in and added another suture so it would stop moving but it’s still sticking out a bit and preventing him from really eating regular cat food. Everytime he leans down to eat, the tube presses on the bottom of the plate or food and hurts his nostril… oh well, we’re giving him the calories he needs for now. It seems like he’s improving, the jaundice is much better, his ears are less yellow and he went from 8.8lbs on admission to now 10 lbs in less than a week! The vets said he still looks a little bit dehydrated so we were instructed to give him a bit more water each week. He’ll go for another check-up sometime next week.

We took the cone off for about 10 minutes to clean it up and he seemed to really enjoy the time with it off. I was scratching his head all over and he was lolling his head around and trying to get me to scratch his ears, while Ron was washing the cone. If only we knew he wouldn’t scratch at it then we could leave the cone off… hopefully only a few more weeks of it after he gains back his weight and can eat on his own.

Misu seems to be putting on weight but we won’t know for sure until we get him checked out at the vet sometime this week. He’s been tolerating his feeding well except that the suture near his nose that was holding the tube in place broke and so now the tube is a bit loose. With each sneeze, it creeps out a tiny bit where it is probably now about 3/4 inch out but the vet says it actually goes ~8 inches into his throat. So far so good. He’s been eating a bit of regular cat food but the tube is annoying him a bit so he’ll stop after about 1 tsp of food.

He seems a bit stronger and acting more like himself. He still likes to sit with or on you, as you can see by him sitting on Ron’s back…

The other cats are doing fine for the most part. I think both of them are still like “who are you? why do you have this big plastic thing around your head? are you some sort of alien?” because they hiss at him every once in a while when he makes a sudden movement.

Mochi still enjoying sitting on the end of the couch on a nice sunny SF day.

But will also hide underneath when she wants some peace and quiet.

Maxwell looking like an old man with his thinning and white hair. He can still act like a kitten sometimes and get really frisky playing with the laser pointer.

Will update more as Misu gets a check-up this week.