Latest / Back In The Closet - Two Crazy Cat Ladies / Caring For A Sick Cat
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- 0:01I'm Jay, I'm Adrian, and together we are.
- 0:03That's crazy girl. Ladies, I'm.
- 0:07Gonna cut you? I think I just peed.
- 0:10Buckle up. We're back in the closet.
- 0:16Welcome. To another episode of Back in
- 0:22the Closet with the 2 Crazy Cat ladies.
- 0:23For those of you guys that are joining us live, we apologize
- 0:26for the bags under our eyes. So we have spent this past
- 0:31weekend at the ER vet with our sweet Madison Grace, our little
- 0:34calico Kitty. And this episode is going to be
- 0:39a little bit of a a story. A back story of what what
- 0:42happened and why. And then also.
- 0:45What we think. Why or what we think?
- 0:46Why? And then also the but what we're
- 0:51doing right, what we're doing to help heal her because she is she
- 0:55is on the road to A, to a swift. Ridge.
- 0:58Beautiful recovery right now. I want to start though by saying
- 1:02thank you. You guys have no idea when we
- 1:05were, we were posting stories just keeping everyone posted
- 1:09because our whole schedule changed and we needed to let
- 1:13everyone know what was going on. Just the prayers, the support,
- 1:17the affirmation, the. Man, you guys never.
- 1:20The. You never disappoint.
- 1:22The advice you guys were giving us the oh.
- 1:24My God, we use so much of it because when you're in like fear
- 1:27mode and in that kind of emergency situation, things that
- 1:32you might think of, you don't. Right.
- 1:35And we'll tell you guys a little bit about some of that too,
- 1:37which is very interesting. But yeah, when it's your cat,
- 1:41like we, we help people 24 hours a day, seven days a week, right?
- 1:45Like we help cat parents. That's what we get the most joy
- 1:48out of is helping you help your cats.
- 1:51And we given advices like it's, it's easy to us, but when it
- 1:56comes to our own cats, it's like your brain just like shuts off
- 2:00and you don't even know what all you need to do.
- 2:03And you, you guys apply unless. You tell the story because our
- 2:06brains were not necessarily functioning.
- 2:08I want to start. With or are they functioning
- 2:10right now? No.
- 2:11So we're going. To do our best to forget.
- 2:12This all started about 4:00 AM Friday morning.
- 2:18We we Thursday night we had a bestie night.
- 2:21We actually had like a breath work session on Thursday.
- 2:25We were trying to learn how to breathe because it's.
- 2:28Been because it's been really stressful.
- 2:29This isn't like the first emergency, it's the first cat
- 2:31emergency this year. But we've had family emergencies
- 2:35going on also, along with for the past month and a half.
- 2:39We've either been like at a hospital or at a, at a
- 2:41convention basically right. Like it's, it's just been, it's
- 2:45been really busy and really stressful.
- 2:48And so we were doing this breath work session, which was
- 2:51beautiful. And then, and then we.
- 2:55Didn't have any food in the fridge because we still haven't
- 2:57done grocery shopping since Super Zoo and Missy, our bestie,
- 3:01is our shipping manager and we said let's just go out to Joey's
- 3:05which is this little Tavern that has great food.
- 3:08A great DJ. Great DJ we.
- 3:11Get to watch some Little League. Right our our Little League in
- 3:16Nevada, yeah, they won the national championship, they lost
- 3:18in the world, but fine. But we we got home and then we
- 3:23decided to have a couple more drinks because which is a bad
- 3:27idea too many Jack and gingers. We went to bed around 11:30 and
- 3:33and incidentally, Madison had her dinner at 5 O clock about 5
- 3:37O clock on Thursday night. When we got home around 9:30 she
- 3:41was having a little crunchy munchies and we went to bed at
- 3:4411:30 and 4:00 O clock in the morning.
- 3:47I bolt out of bed to this sound and it I don't even know how to
- 3:53describe. It, it was like a, it was like a
- 3:55very loud quack, like a like. A and I thought it was it.
- 3:59Was it was because so when she came down she saw puke literally
- 4:04everywhere, right? Like foam puke.
- 4:06There was a hairball puke, some food puke like a like a
- 4:10different pukes but every like. A dozen spots and I was like,
- 4:13what is happening? Yeah.
- 4:15And she had already, so at that point she had already dehydrated
- 4:18herself. So have you ever puked like when
- 4:19you're puking and there's like nothing left to come up?
- 4:22That was the sound, right? Except for it was a cat instead
- 4:25of a human. So it sounded like a duck.
- 4:27Like a loud duck. A terrible, loud duck and
- 4:30there's a lot going on. There was.
- 4:32Unfortunately, there was a the Panthers were on full alert.
- 4:35Jack was big, wide eyes. I didn't know who was made.
- 4:38I thought it was Jack making the sound and Jack was just big wide
- 4:42eyes. Madison was actually sitting
- 4:44there at the bottom of the stairs when I first came
- 4:46downstairs and I'm looking for Jack's.
- 4:48I thought the Panthers aren't full of lurk.
- 4:50There was a new cat that I've never seen in our backyard.
- 4:55I was like, what is happening? Are they?
- 4:57Right, like and totally like out of bed sleep.
- 5:00Not with a little bit too much whiskey, too much Jack and
- 5:02ginger. Yeah.
- 5:04And but then I hear Madison make this like sound and I see a
- 5:08little bit of foam on her chin. And I was like, Oh my God.
- 5:12And then she just came over and laid down and her respirations
- 5:14were super, super high. Yeah, And by the time I came
- 5:18down, she was just kind of curled and waiting in the corner
- 5:22of the kitchen, like I I don't know what.
- 5:24And Adrian's like, we're going to the hospital and I'm like,
- 5:26all right, let's let's, let's go, let's go.
- 5:29So we get to the we luckily we just watched this new 24 hour
- 5:38vet clinic be built close to our home, so where we like
- 5:42frequently shop and eat dinner and things like that.
- 5:46And we were like, oh, that's really cool because of the you
- 5:49guys know, if you've been with us for any amount of time of
- 5:52like our Pooh Bear situation, whenever there's been an
- 5:55emergency, we don't get a lot of emergencies.
- 5:57But when there's an emergency that that number that we have in
- 6:00our head that we can call is like closed now like or they're
- 6:04no longer 24 hour clinic, you know, like the.
- 6:06Nearest 24 hour emergency vet is about 3035 minutes from us.
- 6:10Yeah, so that's a long time to spend in a car with a cut that
- 6:13is. So we were so grateful to know
- 6:15that this 24 hour clip, James said Friday was national Take
- 6:19Your Cat to the Vet day. I think you overbid it a bit.
- 6:22Yes. So we were very excited.
- 6:24Grateful that this place was like 10 minutes away.
- 6:26And we knew exactly where it was.
- 6:27So it was. It wasn't like we had to look,
- 6:29but. We didn't know anything about
- 6:30this clinic, so I'm I'm just holding her in the car as Jay's
- 6:33driving didn't put her in the carrier.
- 6:36Jay brought the carrier with us, but we walk in and there's a
- 6:40receptionist that you walk into this huge room and there's a
- 6:43receptionist this desk and then there's exam tables all over the
- 6:46place and a couple little couches and, and there's nobody
- 6:51there. There's nobody there.
- 6:52It's now it's about 4/24/30 in the morning and all they said
- 6:56was triage and they said bring her here.
- 6:59And usually when you go to an emergency vet, they take your
- 7:03baby and they go to the back and then you wait, agonizing wait,
- 7:09to find out what are they doing, what's going on.
- 7:12And then all you can do is go home and and wait for a phone
- 7:16call, right? Like we're going to have to put
- 7:18her on fluids or here's the estimate or here's the, you
- 7:20know, like any anytime. They triage right in front of
- 7:23us. They checked her vitals, they
- 7:24checked her gums. They checked her throat.
- 7:25They let us hold her. While they were doing
- 7:27everything. They drew her blood guys and it
- 7:29was like black, like she was so dehydrated.
- 7:32It was, it was super, super dark and, and.
- 7:37And it was hard to draw the blood.
- 7:39It was hard to draw the blood they.
- 7:40Let us hold her and, and I have to give a shout out to these
- 7:44vets and nurses. It's called.
- 7:46Veg and they're like a chain, like they're everywhere so.
- 7:49It's veterinary emergency group. Yeah, yeah, Patty Veg is great.
- 7:55I have so many of you guys have reached out after we posted that
- 7:57on our stories that that that's the clinic that we were at.
- 8:01So many of you guys have reached out and been like Oh my God,
- 8:03yes. Or looked up.
- 8:04We didn't even know what open concept was.
- 8:07They like so many people have like looked it up immediately
- 8:10and they found one near then and they're like, Oh my God.
- 8:13Blair today at our meeting. She was 133 miles away.
- 8:16Wonderful. This what it got.
- 8:18There's so many, so we got to be with her.
- 8:19So they brought her and they triaged her right in front of
- 8:22us. She was still had.
- 8:24She wasn't vomiting anymore. Thank God she was.
- 8:27Her respirations are so really high.
- 8:28She was obviously very, very sick.
- 8:31They put us in a waiting room for a second.
- 8:32They said we need to do a blood draw, we need to do X-rays, we
- 8:35need to like what is going on. And I told them, you know, there
- 8:38was all this vomit everywhere. I actually found hair balls are
- 8:41so rare in our house. I found what I thought was when
- 8:44I was trying to clean up at 4:00 in the morning trying to figure
- 8:48out what's going on. I found this hairball that was
- 8:51really like it. At first I thought it was poop.
- 8:54You guys not to be too TMI but it was like this dark dense
- 8:59hairball and I saw it was hair and it had some freeze dried
- 9:04food around it and at the end of it it looked like it had been
- 9:07ripped off and I was like what the hell honestly.
- 9:11Truth be told, I put it in a bag and I brought it with us.
- 9:14But she didn't take it out of the car, and that's a different
- 9:16story for another day because that turned into a disaster the
- 9:20following day. When it's 110° in Vegas and you
- 9:23leave it baking in a car, it smells like you killed.
- 9:26Smells like you have a. So they triage her in front of
- 9:30us and then they do the X-rays. The X-rays comes back and they
- 9:34said. She has a mask in her stomach.
- 9:37Yeah. And so we're like, I mean,
- 9:41immediately I was thinking, OK, how could she eat?
- 9:43Like, she's not a Friday, right? Like our Friday, our girl
- 9:46Friday, she, she will, she will consume plastic.
- 9:51And she, she, you know, when she was younger, she would eat
- 9:53strings and like the scary stuff, right?
- 9:57Madison is not that type of cat, right?
- 9:59Like, I mean, all like all of our cats will, you know, they'll
- 10:03sniff around at the stuff on the ground.
- 10:04And we haven't been very good at keeping the house clean because
- 10:07we've been so busy. So we haven't been like watching
- 10:09everything. So I thought maybe there's
- 10:11something and you know, it's. Or something like.
- 10:13That like they bring in feathers from outside, from the birds
- 10:16outside like that they get into the patio.
- 10:18Like maybe she ate something like that.
- 10:20And what is this mass in her stomach?
- 10:23Yeah, and they said we have to put her on fluid therapy and
- 10:26then and wait and then we'll we'll do another X-ray and then
- 10:29luckily we are close with some beautiful veterinarians and have
- 10:37them on text. And they were right there for
- 10:39us. I could cry right now right
- 10:41there for us immediately and and said, you know, you need a, you
- 10:45need to get an ultrasound and. You need to get, you know the
- 10:48things. That the the different things
- 10:50that like my brain definitely wasn't working at this point and
- 10:53at 5:00 in the morning, these beautiful souls are texting us
- 10:58back. I know we don't all have that,
- 10:59but that's why we're telling you what we did so that you guys can
- 11:04maybe be better equipped if you're ever in emergency
- 11:07situation as well and kind of get the the gist of, you know,
- 11:12what your mind goes through if you haven't been through an
- 11:15emergency like this. But so they put her on IV
- 11:19fluids. So now it's about 6:30 in the
- 11:20morning and they very sweetly said, basically, you know, this
- 11:24is obviously a critical situation.
- 11:25We really don't yet know what's going on.
- 11:29I don't know if you guys need to be at work or whatever.
- 11:32We're like, Oh no, we're staying with her and we're just sitting
- 11:35on a bench in this huge room while we're waiting on radiology
- 11:39to come back. We're waiting on room and we're
- 11:42like, yeah. And then you can see like
- 11:45there's like 5 or 6, four or five, I don't know, rooms.
- 11:48I thought they were exam rooms. And you can see like a little
- 11:49couch in there and. They have an exam table they.
- 11:53Sure, the day that pulls down it's up against the wall pulls
- 11:55down. So I thought they were exam
- 11:57rooms. But there's little couches in
- 11:58there and we're like, OK, like it would be great if she's going
- 12:01to be on IV fluids for a while, but just hold her and let's
- 12:04let's try to curl up on this little on this little couch and.
- 12:07Right. And it was cold in there for a
- 12:09second to me and my PJS. It was cold for me.
- 12:13So we we said, Oh my God, a room that would be awesome.
- 12:16We're thinking we'll just go into an exam room and wait with
- 12:18her on a little plastic chair, whatever, that little couch that
- 12:21we saw. And they said, OK, give us a
- 12:23minute. 15 minutes later, they said your room is ready.
- 12:26Madison's on her IV now, so I'm holding the carrier.
- 12:30Jay's moving the pole. We go into this room.
- 12:32That little couch that's in there pulls out into a double
- 12:35bed. They put sheets on it.
- 12:36They put a comforter on it. They made the bed down.
- 12:39They had two pillows there. There was this huge, like for a
- 12:42huge dog with huge crate with a litter box and blankets in
- 12:45there. And they said she doesn't need
- 12:46to stay in the crate. You know, if she gets squirrely,
- 12:49you might want to put her in there so she doesn't tug on her
- 12:52IV. But you're welcome to keep her
- 12:54on the bed with you. And we were like, what is
- 12:57better? Than a than a human ER clinic
- 12:59guy like my mom. Recently we have been in the ER
- 13:03quite a few times because of family emergencies, right?
- 13:06The human ER and there's like no room to like there's one like
- 13:11one chair for one other person sitting down for hours and
- 13:14hours. You rotate back and forth or you
- 13:15just stand. What is happening?
- 13:17And it felt amazing because A, we still have leftovers from the
- 13:20Jack and Gingers that we had, B, the, the staff there was just
- 13:25absolutely incredible. We just.
- 13:26Apologize and we're like, we know we're sorry.
- 13:29Yeah, we're sorry. And we, Kate and Lola, I love
- 13:33you guys. And so we go into this room and
- 13:35now we're waiting, because now we're waiting for.
- 13:37I can't remember what we were waiting for at that point.
- 13:40We're just waiting for the IV fluids and then and we're
- 13:43waiting for the next vet to come in because they did, they did
- 13:46the, the, it was the night shift and then the day shift, right.
- 13:49So we're waiting for the day shift to come in to order more
- 13:53tests and, and talk to the, the new vet that's going to be with
- 13:56her probably all day. We.
- 13:58We. So they were coming in, they
- 13:59were taking her vitals like every hour and they brought her
- 14:02back out to do the vitals. They let us be with her.
- 14:04Got you guys have any idea how difficult it is to take a cat's
- 14:06blood pressure? It was unbelievable.
- 14:09It's something that like blew my mind.
- 14:13So all the vitals, every What are you looking at here, baby
- 14:16girl? That for your sister?
- 14:17Yeah. So I we have this room and then
- 14:21they're coming in every hour checking on us, checking on her.
- 14:24And they did it. They.
- 14:25Did. Right.
- 14:26The day shift came in, we got to order the ultrasound and the
- 14:30spec FPL or FLPI, can't remember what it is now but basically to
- 14:35rule out pancreatitis or to check.
- 14:36Her first blood, her first blood panel came back.
- 14:40Everything was angry. Her kidney levels were crazy,
- 14:43her liver was out of and her life, my pace was through the
- 14:46roof. So we knew that she was in
- 14:48pancreatitis. So we're like, what is going on?
- 14:51And there's a mass in her stomach.
- 14:54So then when day shift came in, they're like obviously the most,
- 14:57the biggest concern here is what is this?
- 15:00You know, we, they, we ordered the ultrasound.
- 15:02They were hoping that they were going to be fast, but turns out
- 15:05he couldn't be there until like 1:30 or 2:00 in the afternoon.
- 15:08It's 8:00 in the morning. And what if that mass starts
- 15:11moving and then it gets into a small intestine And now we're in
- 15:13full blown emergency surgery, all that stuff.
- 15:16So we thank God, Doctor, Doctor Ella Brock is her name Ella
- 15:22Brock. We kept, we kept calling her
- 15:24Doctor Broccolini. She was like, you know, this is
- 15:28my cat. And incidentally, most of these
- 15:30veterinarians there had one or two cats the way that they they
- 15:33knew how to handle. Cats.
- 15:34That was awesome because it was incredible.
- 15:37You don't see a lot of and she said, obviously the concern here
- 15:40is that mass, if it is moving, you know, maybe it's cancer and
- 15:45maybe it's not going to move and maybe we're dealing with
- 15:47something else. But if it is a foreign object
- 15:50and it's a balled up string or it's a toy or something, if it
- 15:54starts moving into the small intestine, then we're in full
- 15:56blown emergency. Maybe we should do an endoscopy.
- 15:59Maybe we should go in and see if we can pull it out.
- 16:01And so by this time, a couple hours have gone by and we
- 16:05basically opted to do another. X-ray and that's to wait on the
- 16:10on the ultrasound. And Jay asked, she was like,
- 16:12well, since the ultrasound Dr. can't be here for many hours,
- 16:17that could be scary. If we could get our primary,
- 16:19which is Doctor Anna to if she has the capability to do an
- 16:23ultrasound, could we bring her there and see?
- 16:25Because we really need to see what's going on with her
- 16:26pancreas and her organs and this mass.
- 16:29And she was like, yeah, if, if they have the capability, she
- 16:32said I could do it. She said, I'm not a trained
- 16:34technician. I have another doctor here that
- 16:36could assist. But we were like, Oh my God,
- 16:39yes, let's let's do that. That the mask was.
- 16:45Yeah, but it seemed smaller, like the IT wasn't.
- 16:48One doctor saw it and the other doctor was like, it looks like
- 16:51it's gone. Like I don't see it anymore.
- 16:54So. So we're like, OK, this is kind
- 16:57of like this is hopeful. At least we feel like we're
- 16:59moving. Somewhere here, fluid therapy.
- 17:02So now we're going like 6 hours. Later, yeah.
- 17:04And then they were like, OK, now we can do another X-ray.
- 17:07They did another X-ray and the mass was gone.
- 17:11It had dissipated into like granules, right?
- 17:14So then it was more like a. Particles in her small
- 17:17intestine, so it had it kind of dissolved and so that was a huge
- 17:22relief. Obviously, she's still pretty
- 17:26critical. She's very sick.
- 17:27She. Oh, she was, I mean, she is the
- 17:29best cat guys. Like, I mean, you know, you
- 17:32never know, like your cat can be like an Angel at home, but then
- 17:35you take him to the vet and sometimes they turn into like
- 17:37some crazy. And the vets, like the vet.
- 17:40Yeah, of course. Like a scared cat, right.
- 17:43But the, the, the everyone, all the nurses, the vets, everyone
- 17:47was like, she is a perfect Angel.
- 17:49The only thing that they had to warn each other about when they
- 17:52would like come in or switch shifts or whatnot is that she
- 17:55was what they call Perch or which, if you guys follow us on
- 17:58social media, you see her very often on Adrian's head because
- 18:02that's where she likes to sit on her shoulders or on our heads,
- 18:06and she was doing that. With even when she wasn't
- 18:09feeling well, even when she wasn't be held, she wants to be
- 18:11on you right. So the second X-ray remember
- 18:16the. But never a hiss.
- 18:17She didn't hiss once she didn't she didn't like reach out or
- 18:21like scratch or bite or any of the stuff that you know most So
- 18:24I would probably be doing. We were really, we were really
- 18:26excited for the X-ray came back that the mass had dissipated.
- 18:29So no cancer. It, it wasn't like a toy or
- 18:33something, which is someone like Madison, but she was, we decided
- 18:40to do another blood test and now we're like 12 hours in.
- 18:42So we did their blood test. Her levels were starting to
- 18:45normalize. Her kidneys were looking better.
- 18:46Her liver was looking better. Starting her life base was
- 18:49looking better. Numbers were starting to come.
- 18:51Down with the fluid therapy, right?
- 18:54But they were like, we definitely need to keep her
- 18:56overnight. And she wasn't eating anything.
- 18:58And she wasn't eating anything. And she pooped herself.
- 19:01And the ultrasound showed also that like her pancreas was very
- 19:04angry. Her other organs were great.
- 19:06Her, her pancreas was, was very angry and her GI tract was
- 19:09sitting still like there was no motility, right?
- 19:12Like it wasn't it wasn't moving through.
- 19:15So the IT basically whatever. Like I don't even know how this
- 19:21works but whatever happened like inflamed her pancreas and like
- 19:26messed up her her GI tract really bad.
- 19:30So they're like, we definitely need to keep her overnight with
- 19:31fluid therapy. You guys are welcome to stay.
- 19:35What I mean just unbelievable. So at that point I ran home,
- 19:39took a shower, changed out of my PJS and I came back to stays
- 19:43because Jane went back to feed the other babies.
- 19:45Thank God Missy was here. Missy took care of their lunch
- 19:49and all all that stuff. And and Missy is basically our
- 19:52babies all love their Aunt Missy so much.
- 19:55So it was wonderful that she was here helping to keep things
- 19:57normal on the home front. And so I went back, spent the
- 20:01night, have such. Respect.
- 20:06Incredible respect for these people.
- 20:08There were so many emergencies that came in that night and yes,
- 20:11I'm in a room, but you can hear everything and these beautiful
- 20:17people handled everything it just like they handled us.
- 20:21It was just sorry about that. We forgot to go on DND.
- 20:28They were, it was just a real, it was a beautiful experience
- 20:30for a horrible issue, right so. And they came in, you know,
- 20:34almost every hour to check on us.
- 20:35They came in. They had to do they wanted to
- 20:38check her electrolytes. It was like 1:30 in the morning.
- 20:40Yeah. So we were doing all the tests,
- 20:42right? Like we're just doing all this
- 20:44stuff and things to figure out what we need to do and how to
- 20:46move forward. So, so then we keep Saturday
- 20:50morning, Saturday. Jay comes back and we're now
- 20:54looking at we've got to get her to eat.
- 20:56So they were like we need to do an appetite and they were.
- 20:58Giving her anti nausea. They they were giving her anti
- 21:01nausea, they were giving her gabapentin for the pain they
- 21:04were giving her basically like it was chalky.
- 21:07Something to help? Throat, you could tell her.
- 21:10Blood in the last vomit. Yeah, and her throat really hurt
- 21:13so and then and then her and then something some medicine
- 21:17starts with an MI can't remember what the name of it is that that
- 21:20helped to move the the GI tract start getting stuff moving
- 21:25through. She pooped herself once as like
- 21:29as soon as Adrian left and that's when they found out that
- 21:32she's raw fed and and then that kind of cause concern on on
- 21:39their end, but we're fine. And then we and then OK, so then
- 21:46I come back the next day. The issue is still she's not
- 21:48eating and we have to wait and do more fluid therapy and wait
- 21:51for the next blood test. So we get and they.
- 21:56Really didn't want to sleep without her.
- 21:59Eating right. But then it was also like a 5050
- 22:02chance, right? Like some cats are.
- 22:05And everybody said that's the, the, our friends who are
- 22:07veterinarians in the industry, our like the, the veterinarians
- 22:11there, everybody was, everybody said, you know, really when it
- 22:16comes to cats, it's like a 5050 chance they're not eating
- 22:19because they're in the clinic or they're not eating because they
- 22:21don't feel well. So you have the option after we
- 22:25go through this last blood test and see like do you want to take
- 22:30her home and see if she'll eat there and feel better or do we
- 22:34want to keep her here and possibly put in a feeding tube?
- 22:39And at this point, we, we with our one brain cell between the
- 22:45two of us at like 2 nights no sleep.
- 22:49And now we're what, five nights no sleep?
- 22:52We said let's, let's take, let's take the chance, let's take her
- 22:57home because if it doesn't get better, we can take her back.
- 22:59But let's, let's get her into her environment and see if, see
- 23:03if we can do something. Her last blood test came back
- 23:05and her neutrophils were like. Soon.
- 23:09Were bottomed out. Like so which I.
- 23:12I had never even like known about this before, right?
- 23:15So this was basically an indicator of infection because
- 23:18all of her organs were so inflamed, there was like
- 23:21basically back. So we're contaminating other
- 23:23things that there's bacteria that can get into places.
- 23:26Yes, Judith, that's it. The best.
- 23:31Yes. I think that.
- 23:33I think that is it. We What are we talking?
- 23:38About I don't know we no her neutrophils.
- 23:45So her neutrophils were super low, which indicated infection.
- 23:48Even though her white blood cell count was alarming wasn't
- 23:52alarming and all the numbers were her ALT was like skyrocket
- 23:56like it was really high on her first one.
- 23:58It came down on the second one. It was, it was getting like
- 24:02almost to normal by the third one blood test.
- 24:06And so, so he, the, the new Doctor that was there the next
- 24:12day shift doctor said that he's worried about an infection in
- 24:17the, in the GI tract. And he recommended that we take
- 24:22an antibiotic home or that they give her an antibiotic.
- 24:26And, and then he started talking about raw food.
- 24:29And he was, he started talking about like little raw feeding
- 24:32and I and, and like, oh, and that's probably it's, it's
- 24:34probably because. You know, salmonella, E coli,
- 24:36whatever, right? Which other one here knows that
- 24:39you know there have been contamination issues are a thing
- 24:42in food for sure. But that wasn't this situation,
- 24:46and we knew that from the beginning.
- 24:49There was a matter. And and so we weren't
- 24:51necessarily concerned about that, but we were concerned
- 24:53about with her organs just being so disrupted.
- 24:56And her just like being such a little like poor helpless baby
- 25:04Angel. Right, but still neutrophils.
- 25:06So I'm. Supposed to be at like 2700 and
- 25:09they were like at 130. Yeah.
- 25:11It was really. We were freaked out, but we
- 25:13still decided to go home. We got her home, Yeah.
- 25:16And. And I asked the vet, I said, so
- 25:20could we do this? Could we bring her home and not
- 25:23fill the antibiotic yet? But if we, if we don't see her
- 25:27eating, if, if we're not seeing any kind of improvement, maybe
- 25:30just in the next few hours I can come back and get that
- 25:33antibiotic. Is that something we can do?
- 25:35And he was like, absolutely, yes.
- 25:37Like this was like 5 or 6:00 on Saturday night and by 8:00 PM we
- 25:43were freaked out. We were freaking out.
- 25:44Because she's she was still drooling and I was like the
- 25:47gabapentin man, like, I don't know.
- 25:49But she I mean different cats react differently to.
- 25:51She but she was staying so still, you know, like when you
- 25:53don't feel good, you're just like, let's stay, let's stay
- 25:55really still and maybe it'll just go away.
- 25:57And that's how she was so sick. She was just.
- 26:00Really not feeling well. So then I, we, we got to talk to
- 26:03one of our beautiful veterinarian friends as well,
- 26:06who I sent, I was sending the blood work over to every time we
- 26:09got, you know, any of the charts and everything.
- 26:11I was just sending it over. And she also said that those
- 26:15neutrophils are scary. And if it were her, she would go
- 26:18ahead with the antibiotic. So I called the vet and I'm
- 26:20like, hey, can we go ahead and fill the antibiotic?
- 26:22And they said, yes, it'll be ready in 20 minutes.
- 26:25Went back also and this is where it gets exciting because once
- 26:31you know like there's a mixture I think when it when it comes to
- 26:34especially emergency situations, right like we're not anti
- 26:37medicine, but like some people think that like anything anybody
- 26:41that is all about natural, you know, there's other vets that
- 26:43like. Do that they don't like
- 26:44conventional. They do videos about us and like
- 26:47they don't know what they're talking about.
- 26:48Whatever. Like it's not that we are anti
- 26:50medicine at all. We need medicine.
- 26:52We need our veterinarians right? Like we need emergency in,
- 26:57especially in these emergency situations, we need this help
- 27:00and we are very grateful for this help.
- 27:02But when it gets to a point where we can mix in our, you
- 27:07know, more natural holistic measures and maybe start cutting
- 27:13out some of that chemical, you know, more toxic stuff, then
- 27:18maybe we can get there, right. So I, so we said yes, let's go
- 27:22ahead and get the antibiotic and we're giving her the
- 27:24antibiotics. So she's getting the syringe of
- 27:27the antibiotic every 12 hours right now still.
- 27:31And on top of that, we got let's just I'll show you because we
- 27:35had, we brought it all upstairs because it's been sitting on our
- 27:37island for the past like. Our island is not like our our
- 27:42office. Our medicine office, So, so we
- 27:46got Sacrumice's Boulardi, of course, for for the gut health,
- 27:52we got slippery Elm. Everyone that we talked to in
- 27:55the industry was like you need slippery Elm.
- 27:58So I ran out. I got both of these.
- 28:00I don't know why we didn't have, I thought we had slippery Elm,
- 28:02but we didn't have an Epilardi. We might we, our supplement
- 28:05cabinet needs to be organized and cleaned, but got new.
- 28:09It's fine. So so we I went out and got
- 28:12remedies. I got so they sent us home with
- 28:16these two medications. This one is the oh Mira Taz.
- 28:20So this is the appetite stimulant.
- 28:23It's a transdermal appetite stimulant that they used in the
- 28:27vet's office once and it didn't work.
- 28:31It didn't work. It started it.
- 28:32Her. Her ears started busting blood
- 28:34vessels. Yeah, so it was a little scary.
- 28:37We haven't opened this yet. And then they sent us home with
- 28:39Serenia. As many of you guys know, it's
- 28:42the anti nausea medicine. We haven't opened that yet
- 28:44either. And I don't know that well if we
- 28:47won't, not for her, at least not this time around.
- 28:50So what I picked up instead was Nux Vomica 200C.
- 28:54So that would that is A and I got this at Sprouts, like our
- 28:58local health store that we shop at for our groceries.
- 29:02And this is anti nausea. So I got this and then I got
- 29:06arnica, which you guys, probably everybody knows what arnica is.
- 29:10And I got the 200 C per doctor Katie Woodley's advice.
- 29:15So we had that here. But the 30C knife is 200.
- 29:19So for pain, right? So we got that.
- 29:22And then we had so many other tools in our toolbox already at
- 29:25home. We mixed we, you know, we, we
- 29:28mixed those into these little solutions and named them.
- 29:32So we got to accept. The.
- 29:35So we know what is what. We use B12 for that.
- 29:38Why didn't we? We're talking to the natural pet
- 29:44doctor, Doctor Kitty Woodley on the phone and she's like, and
- 29:49we're talking about appetite stimulant.
- 29:50And when they said appetite stimulant, I was like, what
- 29:53natural? I know, we know.
- 29:55Natural appetite stimulants. What brains are?
- 29:57This is where your brain goes, right?
- 29:58I'm like, what? Natural appetite stimulant?
- 30:01I know we, I know, we know of them.
- 30:04She's like, get your B12 for the appetite stimulant.
- 30:07Yeah. I mean, we tell, like I said at
- 30:10the beginning it we would tell you guys absolutely use this as
- 30:14an appetite stimulant, but in the moment we completely forgot
- 30:18that we have this tool in our toolbox, a hundreds of this in
- 30:22our toolbox in our shop. So so started using that.
- 30:27That I think was like the game changer.
- 30:31Once we got even just that first shot of we did a mixture, right?
- 30:36So we did the the catalyst, which is that antioxidant and
- 30:41digestive enzymes super important if you got
- 30:43pancreatitis like it's super important, right?
- 30:46It's not only going to Those antioxidant enzymes help to
- 30:48reduce the inflammation in the pancreas, but pancreas can't
- 30:51make those digestive enzymes when it's so inflamed like that.
- 30:54So. We're, we're helping the body in
- 30:56so many ways. So we mix these two.
- 30:59We, we were mixing Vira X as well because that is a natural.
- 31:04It's like nature's antibiotic. So we're like, well, let's go
- 31:06ahead and you know. Super super do this like little
- 31:08ramekin. We mix up the beach while the
- 31:10Nux bomb. The all the liquid ones.
- 31:13And then we syringe that and then Saturday night we did have
- 31:16to because the antibiotic needed at least a little bit of food.
- 31:20So yeah, I went to a Whole Foods and I got some some of the like
- 31:24baby food, the meat based baby food.
- 31:28And we had a syringe feeder. And we had a syringe feeder to
- 31:31get her to and and in that is where we would put the powder
- 31:34supplements right is in the food and then we would have a liquid
- 31:38shot that we made. Then we started it was.
- 31:41It wasn't until the next day but we started the adored Beast
- 31:44Liver tonic also. Something everyone should have
- 31:46on. Here everybody should have on
- 31:47hand, and I am so grateful that we did.
- 31:49Oh my God. But we started.
- 31:51That is here. Oh my.
- 31:53God, you're a secret. Planet I love you so much so so
- 32:00we had the we had the adored beast liver tonic.
- 32:03So we got we got her started on that.
- 32:05She still wasn't pooping if you guys like for those of you guys
- 32:08that follow our stories like we were a little worried about the
- 32:11pooping thing. So we started putting the cocoa
- 32:16therapy coconut oil in there so we can start like kind of moving
- 32:19a little bit of things through and we and we're like, OK, we're
- 32:22going to we're taking this into our own hands.
- 32:24We've got this. The first night when we got her
- 32:28home was the scariest, right? Because it's like, OK, I got to
- 32:33tell myself that we're doing all of the right things.
- 32:36And I know that we're doing all of the right things, but seeing
- 32:42her still not what to move, seeing her still not eating at
- 32:48first, seeing her still not pooping, not moving around much,
- 32:52this was it was it was hard. It was another sleepless night.
- 32:56Oh God. Shout out to Laura Lee too,
- 32:59because he also put. And Karen Dindy Smith, right.
- 33:03So of course we, we, we, we've got a tribe.
- 33:05And we're so grateful that we have such a beautiful tribe of
- 33:09beautiful humans in this industry.
- 33:12And we all work together in all our different ways to help
- 33:15support each other. And it is literally the most
- 33:19beautiful thing ever. And so both Karen Dindy Smith
- 33:23and Laura Lee Medley are are canine herbalist now that we
- 33:28just did with Moon Mojo, canine herbalist, feline herbalist Rita
- 33:34Hogan was also helping. So, so you know, we're we're
- 33:37talking to all of our friends. They were sending energy
- 33:40connecting with our with Madison, seeing where she was
- 33:43at, what might be going on. Like all of this was happening
- 33:46at the same time. And we were just so grateful
- 33:49that we have we have such a, a beautiful support group.
- 33:53And then all of you with all of your.
- 33:56And I just say so and I'm going to mess up the name so I'm going
- 34:00to try but there is a a sound frequency.
- 34:04That someone sent us so on. So somebody DM Ed us because
- 34:07we're posting our stories, right?
- 34:08Somebody DM Ed us. I I don't know your I don't know
- 34:12the real name. It was Ali, Ali something,
- 34:15something. But thank you so much.
- 34:18She said, I don't know if you believe in frequencies.
- 34:20And we're like, oh, yeah, we do. We've got like all the woo woo
- 34:23going. And she's like, I don't know if
- 34:25you believe in frequencies, but. And she told us a little story
- 34:28about how her cat wouldn't eat it through a sickness and how
- 34:31she played this specific frequency music that helps to
- 34:37increase appetite. And so I was like, thank you.
- 34:41Yes, we will absolutely try that.
- 34:42We played that for the first, like we played it at the doctor,
- 34:46at the clinic, and then we played it when we got home,
- 34:49literally like almost 24 hours. Yeah, almost stopped yesterday.
- 34:52Oh yeah. And then I went into the the
- 34:54sound the sound bad thing sound bath.
- 34:55So she's got sound bad feeling, but and then someone else said
- 34:59because we still get so now so Saturday night we had a syringe
- 35:02feeder. We gave her the antibiotic.
- 35:04Next morning she's still not eating.
- 35:06She still hasn't made any deposits and we have to syringe
- 35:09feed her again and give her the next dose of antibiotic.
- 35:11And if someone at that point DM D us and said have you tried
- 35:16sardines? Does what is wrong?
- 35:19Yeah, we have those in our pantries.
- 35:21I haven't. Jay open it up and you have no
- 35:24idea the joy to watch her. We we have tried giving we went
- 35:28shopping y'all. We tried to get her to
- 35:31everything, tried to get her to eat anything.
- 35:34Sardines. Sardines and sound, sardines,
- 35:38sound and supplements. I would say that with the the
- 35:41B12 mixed with well and the catalytic like the awesome
- 35:44supplements, right, the homeopathics, all of that, the
- 35:47B12 or the the supplements, the sound and sardines was like
- 35:53winning for the win. We she literally she licked at
- 35:57like at first she just licked a couple bites and we were like,
- 36:00that's still progress. Let's go, let's go.
- 36:02And then it was like probably the next day or or Sunday night.
- 36:05I can't even remember. I don't know time right now, but
- 36:08she started eating and she would eat the sardines and we were
- 36:12like, this is wonderful. And still today, like I like I'm
- 36:17giving her sardines to give her all of her other supplements.
- 36:21Now that we don't like, now we can actually start putting in
- 36:24food and a little bit less traumatic because we're not
- 36:27having to syringe it down her throat anymore.
- 36:29And. Can I give a shout out to Doctor
- 36:31Katie Woodley? She just said Nina was asking
- 36:33like, what? What's in the liver tonic, Why?
- 36:35You know, why to have it on hand?
- 36:37And Doctor Katie said the liver and the pancreas are closely
- 36:40connected with pancreatitis. You want to support both.
- 36:43So Catalyst and the liver tonic are really helpful in the
- 36:46situation and they really have been I and everyone is asking
- 36:51about the sound you guys stay tuned.
- 36:52I will post the link to that. It's like an app for.
- 36:58It's on a YouTube video. Yeah, it's YouTube video.
- 37:01I will post it on YouTube and on Facebook in the comments.
- 37:04So just come back to the comments when we're done here
- 37:06and I will. Yeah, we do have to shout you
- 37:08out. Doctor Katie, I love you so
- 37:11much. It's amazing.
- 37:14I just, I just feel like I'm so. Great.
- 37:18So much of. A vacation in Hawaii or
- 37:22something. So Catherine is asking, did you
- 37:26ever figure out what caused it? I want to, I want to cover that
- 37:28real quick. We thought we were going to be
- 37:29able to keep this 30 minutes. We're rambling, delirious fools
- 37:32right now. But so here is what we suspect.
- 37:35So just to recap really quickly, we got her in after this violent
- 37:39vomiting. They saw the mass after 12
- 37:42hours. The mass had dissipated with
- 37:44with fluid therapy. When this happened at 4, AMI
- 37:48found a hairball, which is very unlike us to see a hairball in
- 37:52our home that looked almost like poop and it was narrow at one
- 37:56end. It looked like it was ripped off
- 37:57at the other. I suspect I think we both do at
- 38:00this point because she's been a super healthy, super healthy
- 38:03girl. Is that that hairball that was
- 38:08coming up that was coated with her crunchy munchies?
- 38:13Aren't you munchies, meaning the freeze dry that she gets in the
- 38:15afternoon? Yeah, and at at night we leave a
- 38:19little snack out in the time that that hairball ripped off in
- 38:24her throat and that was the the end of it was the mask that we
- 38:27could see. I suspect this is what happened.
- 38:30So our feeding schedule for all of our babies is they get raw
- 38:34for breakfast, they get a wet food treat for lunch, they get
- 38:38raw for dinner, and then they have the crunchy munchy feeders
- 38:42at night that turn at 8:00. For a little and they get
- 38:44crunchy munchies in the afternoon.
- 38:46Well, Zorro does the crunchy munchies in the afternoon.
- 38:48Most of the other babies will always.
- 38:50Well, he'll have a couple, but his favorite is is the wet food.
- 38:54The beginning of August, we thought Jack was reacting to a
- 38:59thickening agent in the foods that we were feeding at the time
- 39:01because he had a little rash on his head, which we're still
- 39:04dealing with. Update on that later.
- 39:06So we switched up the wet food to one that didn't have this
- 39:10thickening agent. Madison would not eat that wet
- 39:13food, so she started eating the crunchy mungies with the freeze
- 39:17dried food with Zorro. That we did not rehydrate.
- 39:20That we didn't rehydrate we just but she was eating more of it
- 39:24and then at night, like Thursday night, you guys like I said, she
- 39:27ate her raw food just fine at 5:00.
- 39:29When we came home at 9:30 she was eating her her freeze dried
- 39:33snacks. I think she was going to the
- 39:35other feeders and eating more of it because she wasn't getting
- 39:39her wet food lunch. She didn't want the wet food
- 39:41that we are feeding. What I suspect has happened over
- 39:44this month of changing their diet is that she we let her eat
- 39:51too much freeze dried food and that it dehydrated her system
- 39:57and that that was the most. That there's actually, there's a
- 40:01lot of, there's a lot of ideas that we have in our head of what
- 40:04happened. Sometimes we don't know guys,
- 40:07right? So sometimes we're not going to.
- 40:09Know but the fact that the mess unless we flew it there put.
- 40:12Her under anesthesia and did a scope at that time because that
- 40:15would be the only way that we would have known when we first
- 40:18saw the. I would avoid that if we.
- 40:20Could right. So, so we don't necessarily know
- 40:24exactly what happened, but it it has happened in the past and
- 40:28then that that not to us, but like it has happened where cats
- 40:33get these hairballs that are stuck and it turns into a mass
- 40:36and there's an emergency type situation that might that that
- 40:41might be what it is. I'm not quite.
- 40:43Catherine just said Buzz can't eat much of the freeze dried
- 40:46because he gets sick. He's had pancreatitis twice now
- 40:49this year. So I think that's what it is, is
- 40:51that if we feed it dehydrated, which we were doing, we got just
- 40:55as a little snack, but she was eating more than we realized
- 40:58that it was, you know, it was dehydrating her stomach fluids
- 41:02and that caused that. You know, we always talk about
- 41:05this with kibble. You know, if you get chronic
- 41:07hairballs with your cat, think about you're feeding them a dry
- 41:10diet and it's very much like it kind of just gets stopped up in
- 41:14there. They don't have what it takes
- 41:16for them to naturally pass that through.
- 41:19Now that wasn't my first thought.
- 41:20My first thought initially was like, damn it, this is my fault.
- 41:26This is my fault, right? Like we, we've had a, we had
- 41:28doctor Barry Sands on who is also a beautiful veterinarian
- 41:31that we were able to reach out to during this time and ER vet,
- 41:34we've had her on our podcast here and to talk about
- 41:37pancreatitis specifically. And we, she, we, she talked
- 41:41about like the, the level of stress and the owner stress and
- 41:45how cats take on the stress of their owners and how how this
- 41:50like anxiety can lead to issues in your cats as well as
- 41:56yourself. We know this.
- 41:58We have been in a heightened level of stress for or I have
- 42:02specifically, I wasn't blaming Adrian, but I have been at a, at
- 42:05a heightened level of stress for a minute, right?
- 42:08Like I told you, family emergencies plus conventions,
- 42:11plus hosting everything like the.
- 42:13Beginning of July. Basically, right.
- 42:14So it, yeah, basically a month and a half, two months.
- 42:17It's just been this like what level of like I like I, I, I, I,
- 42:22I can't. So I blamed myself.
- 42:26I was like, she has this because of my stress, right?
- 42:29Like of course it's about me. But but all like, I think all of
- 42:34this likely plays into we don't know exactly what the reason is,
- 42:38right? What we know is that she is now
- 42:39on the road to recovery. She has pooped, she is pooping.
- 42:43She has her healing room. So we have a, we have a guest
- 42:45room. We have one guest room in our
- 42:46house and that room in Sissy's room, it's either Sissy's room
- 42:50or in his room stays over right And then and then it was the
- 42:54kitten's room. Whenever we whenever we bring in
- 42:57a new. It was, it was Zorro in Friday's
- 42:59room, and then it was Jack in Madison's room, and then it was
- 43:01Annie's room and then it was, it was it was Madison's room again.
- 43:05When the only other, whenever we had with it wasn't even
- 43:07emergency. But the only other time that
- 43:09Madison needed extra time in there was when she got spayed.
- 43:12When she got spayed, her body rejected the sutures, so we had
- 43:17to spend another two weeks in there basically.
- 43:20Right, so, so now it's the healing room, right?
- 43:22Like now that now we're like, OK, you have a healing room.
- 43:25I can't tell you guys right now. I don't know if she is milking
- 43:28us for the because she's doing so well, right?
- 43:32But I don't know if she's milking us for the extra
- 43:36attention and the fact that she has her privacy.
- 43:38Because she's not a cat that likes the other cats, right?
- 43:42She doesn't snuggle with them. She's a people.
- 43:44She thinks she's. Human, right?
- 43:46So she she's more like I want to be with my people, not I want to
- 43:49be with the other cats. So I don't know if she's just
- 43:51milking this or if she just needs more time to heal.
- 43:55Either way, she gets the healing room.
- 43:57I feel she's eating now like so well, her I, I still, I don't
- 44:02want to let her freely roam like that's why she's not out here
- 44:05with us. She I, we let her out earlier
- 44:07today. I went in to see how she was
- 44:09doing and she was like, I'm going downstairs.
- 44:11So we did a whole like checking the house out again, saying hi
- 44:14to everybody. But I also feel like I really
- 44:17want to keep an eye on these deposits.
- 44:18We, we still need to do a follow up.
- 44:20We need to find out, you know, how everything is doing right
- 44:24now. She's she's eating like a champ,
- 44:27absolute champ, but I still, you know, so.
- 44:30Everything is everything is good.
- 44:32Like we are on the road to recover.
- 44:33We are not going to stop with our natural treatments, with our
- 44:37holistic treatments because she went through a lot and there's a
- 44:39lot to rebuild, right? Like, but like Doctor Katie
- 44:42Woodley, the natural pet doctor said like we can, we need to do
- 44:45what we need to do to fight what we need to fight.
- 44:48And then we can fix things, right?
- 44:50Like we can, we can heal the gut if we but but right now we need
- 44:53to we need to fix Madison and. So.
- 44:58She's on antibiotics and she's on probiotics and she's on
- 45:01slippery Elm and she's on digestive enzymes, antioxidant
- 45:05enzymes and, and, and liver tonic and all the stuff and
- 45:08things so that we can make sure that we are, that we're mixing,
- 45:13you know, both what she needs in the conventional world and what
- 45:16she needs in the holistic world, in the natural world, like what
- 45:19she needs for her body that's going to cause the least harm
- 45:23and the and give the most benefits, especially long term,
- 45:28right And for her recovery. And I just feel like I know
- 45:31we're way over time that we thought, but I think the biggest
- 45:35thing is we have so much gratitude that medicine is
- 45:38recovering. We have so much gratitude for
- 45:42the veterinarians at VEG, Every single one of them, every single
- 45:46one of the nurses. They, they, not only do they
- 45:49know how to handle a cat, which is not something that we're used
- 45:54to, they, they were so gracious to us, so accommodating to us.
- 45:59They, we could have conversations about everything
- 46:02and anything. We felt completely supported and
- 46:06safe there. It was amazing to be able to be
- 46:08with Madison. We feel so grateful for the
- 46:12veterinarians in this community that knew something was going on
- 46:15and contacted us and help us think straight in that moment of
- 46:21emergency to this community that to to our.
- 46:24Beautiful woo woo friends who were also right there connecting
- 46:29right there sitting energy right there like through this whole
- 46:33thing for the the beautiful soul on on Instagram who reached out
- 46:38and sent us the the frequency video.
- 46:41God bless you like thank you so much because and the.
- 46:44Sardines tip. And then the sardines tip.
- 46:46Like, really? It's like it takes a village,
- 46:48right? And Laura Lee actually texted us
- 46:50and said hey for appetites. I saw Judith's comment earlier.
- 46:52Laura Lee told us exactly what herbs to use.
- 46:55We have to herb garden down at the hospital.
- 46:58And in her healing room right now, yes, Karen Dundy Smith,
- 47:01that moment in the ER when we were there maybe an hour.
- 47:05And she's the beautiful soul that got me into Qigong, which
- 47:10is like a meditation. It's like a 25 minute meditation
- 47:13that I try to do. She was like, as you do this,
- 47:16just imagine like she just had like a direction for me, which
- 47:19was which was game changing to my adult brain at that time to
- 47:26be able to focus on the way to meditate instead of just being
- 47:30all of in my head. It was incredible.
- 47:33And then and then. All of you guys that were
- 47:36sending so much, so many prayers, so much support, so
- 47:39many, the good energy, the vibes, the, I mean, just it's,
- 47:43it's overwhelming every time like it, but it's so amazing.
- 47:47You know, when on social media, you just, you never know, like,
- 47:50like you just post things and you tell people what's going on
- 47:53in your life and you, you never know who sees it.
- 47:55Like a lot of times you see things, but you don't like it.
- 47:57You know, we don't, we don't like, you know, always like it
- 48:00or engage with it or anything like that.
- 48:02The amount of the thousands and thousands of you guys that were
- 48:07consistently reaching out, consistently sending prayers,
- 48:10consistently sending your, your positive healing energy.
- 48:15We are so grateful because that I mean it, it really keeps us
- 48:18going and it has kept us going through this whole debacle that.
- 48:23Whole situation, we don't know the why of it.
- 48:25Yet we don't know the why, and maybe we won't.
- 48:28I want to, I want to talk about this for a second with this
- 48:30community, because one thing I do think is, is if for no other
- 48:34reason that we may ever understand this side of this
- 48:37side, being able to have that time with this ER clinic with
- 48:43these beautiful conventional veterinarians, you guys, and
- 48:46listening all night long when I stayed with medicine, listening
- 48:49all night long to them handle pets and people in their darkest
- 48:55hours. You guys, this is where I'm
- 48:58going to I'm going to just start bringing them like food every
- 49:01week as like a thank you for existing, thank you for your
- 49:05stamina, thank you for your your knowledge, Thank you for like
- 49:09it. It's if for no other reason, it
- 49:12really solidify what it is for all of us to participate in the
- 49:17bridge building between integrative and holistic health
- 49:21and conventional health and for all of us to recognize what are
- 49:25veterinarians do, what incredible people they are, how
- 49:30much they handle as human beings.
- 49:33Like we're talking about being stressed for the past month and
- 49:36a half because we've had family emergencies in the human ER,
- 49:39going to doctor's appointments back and forth here and there,
- 49:41doing conventions. These people are dealing with
- 49:44life and death every 15 minutes, and they're doing it with grace
- 49:48and with knowledge and with compassion and.
- 49:52Even a smile like they still figure out how to bring that
- 49:58customer service. I don't know what joy, but joy,
- 50:01right? Like they.
- 50:01Still. It's a it's a it's a beautiful
- 50:05thing. So thank, thank you to.
- 50:07All of you for letting us be part of this beautiful village.
- 50:10All of you are. So it's just over.
- 50:13It is. It is really overwhelming.
- 50:15And Madison feels it too. I feel like she knows how many
- 50:20people love her. It's.
- 50:22Just. And I feel like we're going to
- 50:24sleep tonight, I feel like. Tonight's going to be the first
- 50:26night. Yeah.
- 50:27I feel like I haven't slept. I haven't slept in our bed
- 50:29since. Since Thursday.
- 50:31Jay's been taking care of all the babies.
- 50:34I've been in the room with Madison, and last night she was
- 50:37definitely feeling better. She loves, she has little claws.
- 50:40She loves to wake me up by grabbing my face so it's like.
- 50:43Yeah, that first warning, I came in and I was like, oh, she got
- 50:46your nose because she has just like her nose.
- 50:48My face was like, Oh yeah, OK, it's.
- 50:50That aging, needling thing that they do, I don't know where they
- 50:54do like needles, but I definitely.
- 50:56Need that right now. Yeah, we're.
- 50:58But we're so grateful for you guys and we're grateful for this
- 51:01community. We'll continue to keep you guys
- 51:04posted too. Yeah, back when she's out in
- 51:06Gen. Pop Yeah.
- 51:08Yeah, I I think she should. She will be very soon, probably
- 51:12within a day she will be. Maybe not.
- 51:14Back in this one is very hesitant.
- 51:17I am like, let her do, let her be, Let's go.
- 51:21But but thank you guys so much for joining us on this on this
- 51:26beautiful podcast. Sorry if we babbled on too long,
- 51:30but thank you. Thank you again for joining us
- 51:32and we will see you guys very soon after a nap.