Jezebel comes home!

Jezebel came home from the hospital today. Pax the attack cat greeted her with feigned indifference (given that we expected Pax to launch into a hiss-fit, we consider this a good sign). Isabelle, on the other hand, immediately started cleaning Jezebel's head, no doubt wishing to stay on the bionic cat's good side. I think Isabelle missed Jezebel--she hasn't yet left her side (although she did manage to take over the nice cat bed we had prepared for Jezebel.)

So now Jezebel is sprawled out along the back of the couch, sleeping. We gave Jezebel her first home Percutaneous Gastronomy Tube Feeding (the g-tube) about an hour ago. Our instructions are to feed her 20ml of Eukanuba Maximum-Calorie formula, eight times a day. She is also getting 500mg of taurine and 500mg of carnitine daily to supplement the food, as well as 50mg of Ursodiol daily.

Her first feeding went well, although it's a time-consuming process. The 20ml need to be administered slowly via a syringe into the g-tube over 15-20 minutes. That's a long time to ask Jezebel to sit still. Michael and I managed pretty well together (me feeding and him holding the cat), but I'm not so sure about how easy it's going to be to do the feedings solo.

We also need to do some bionic-cat-proofing around the apartment tonight. Jezebel keeps wanting to squeeze into little places and I'm worried she'll get her g-tube caught on something and yank it out. Then there's Isabelle, who's bound to notice the rubber tube hanging out of Jezebel's side. If she ever figures out there's in food in there, we're really in for it.