fenshae
Well-Known Member
It looks like my poor Master Splinter won't be with us much longer. :sad3: I'm not positive how old he is, I got him November '09 and he was full-grown (and BIG) then, so I'm guessing he's anywhere between 26 - 29 months. He's been aging gracefully and haphazardly as only a rex can, half-bald and lazy.
Anyway, he went on antibiotics about a week ago for a URI. The last few days, he's been slowly declining. It started with on-and-off tilting and balance issues, which rapidly progressed to partial paralysis. He was eating solid food two nights ago, to lapping ensure from a dish yesterday but unable to hold food/sit on his hind legs, to eating from a syringe this morning but still able to crawl around, to now he's just lying on his side breathing hard, all four paws clubbed and occasionally he's having these weird facial twitches. He'll still eat from a syringe, I gave him about 1.5cc of ensure tonight before he wouldn't take anymore.
His lungs are sounding really wet. And you can actually feel it when you hold him -- you can feel this sort of crackle in his chest cavity. This cropped up like this VERY fast, he had sounded stuffy before but nowhere near that bad.
What's weird is that this is identical to what Mr. Ripper died of -- some sort of creeping paralysis + pneumonia.
Any ideas what this is? It's not presenting the same way as PT. When Wesley had PT, he would act confused, like he had forgotten how to do things. Not the same with Splinter -- when he lost mobility, it was as though something were misfiring in his brain or his muscles and the limbs were just not coordinated the way they should be. If that makes sense. It's too gradual for a stroke. And I don't know if the lung thing is incidental or related. Any ideas?
Anyway, he went on antibiotics about a week ago for a URI. The last few days, he's been slowly declining. It started with on-and-off tilting and balance issues, which rapidly progressed to partial paralysis. He was eating solid food two nights ago, to lapping ensure from a dish yesterday but unable to hold food/sit on his hind legs, to eating from a syringe this morning but still able to crawl around, to now he's just lying on his side breathing hard, all four paws clubbed and occasionally he's having these weird facial twitches. He'll still eat from a syringe, I gave him about 1.5cc of ensure tonight before he wouldn't take anymore.
His lungs are sounding really wet. And you can actually feel it when you hold him -- you can feel this sort of crackle in his chest cavity. This cropped up like this VERY fast, he had sounded stuffy before but nowhere near that bad.
What's weird is that this is identical to what Mr. Ripper died of -- some sort of creeping paralysis + pneumonia.
Any ideas what this is? It's not presenting the same way as PT. When Wesley had PT, he would act confused, like he had forgotten how to do things. Not the same with Splinter -- when he lost mobility, it was as though something were misfiring in his brain or his muscles and the limbs were just not coordinated the way they should be. If that makes sense. It's too gradual for a stroke. And I don't know if the lung thing is incidental or related. Any ideas?
