Tonight's report on little Mego from Magnificat Cat Rescue:
What a day this has been. Bear with us, we want to tell you what happened.
As we mentioned in the morning update, we had a horrible night. That’s because we’d nod off for a couple of minutes, only to jerk awake in the middle of a nightmare about Mego in the VERG-Brookyn ICU. The dreams were so ominous we’d grab the phone and call the ICU. Each time we’d get the same report: yes, his blood pressure had gone down, but it was still within reasonable limits. The troubling dreams were completely unlike us. You have to understand, we are as stolid and unimaginative as a potato, and yet the uneasy sense that something was wrong continued to grow. At 10 a.m., when the phone rang, we already knew it was bad news.
Mego was crashing. His blood pressure had plummeted. His biomarkers were terrible. His bilirubin had doubled. And the cat that had been so alert and responsive yesterday was stuporous and obviously failing. They had given him a transfusion of red blood cells at an hour earlier, but he was not responding. His red blood cell count was now at 14%. The vet came right out and said it: “We’ve done everything we can do medically. It is time to do what is best for Mego.”
We agreed. What else could we do? But we asked if it made sense to give him another three hours. The vet said that sounded reasonable, so long as we were prepared to make a decision when she called at one.
You can imagine what the next three hours were like. We kept reminding ourselves that we had done the best we could and that we knew going in how serious sepsis was. When the phone rang at 1 p.m., we had to brace ourselves to answer. Only this time around the vet’s voice sounded completely different. What she said surprised us so much that we kept asking her to repeat it.
Mego, the dying cat, had rallied and astonished the ICU staff. For the THIRD time.
His blood pressure was up. His red blood cell count was rising. He had come out of the stupor.
“And,” said the vet, with palpable disbelief, “he is eating!”
We spoke to the vet again just now. We’ve been through so many ups and downs we wanted to make sure he was still doing well. Tonight’s report is excellent: his red blood cells are up to 30% (almost normal), doppler blood pressure holding steady at 110, and his other biomarkers are looking good! He keeps trying to sit up, although he can’t hold it for long. But when food is put in front of him, he lifts his head and starts eating.
The staff at VERG Brooklyn North has been wonderful. They even send us pictures every night so we can update all of Mego’s supporters. We truly appreciate all they are doing.
One final thought tonight: while we can categorically state that we have no psychic powers whatsoever, we are beginning to think Mego does
