I think Cassie is dying

[wemple2]

Just hoping and praying...my thoughts are with you, always.

[ladyjane]

So happy to hear there is some improvement. Continuing to pray for Cassie and for you, Shellie.

[AbbysMom08]

Continuing to pray for Cassie and you.

[broodizt]

Went to see Cassie twice today. Seemed to be breathing a little easier, but talked with the doctor. She is very worried.

Doesn't know why she keeps getting pneumonia. No smoking gun, no explanation. Like looking for a needle in a haystack. Keeps turning blue at the slightest handling. She said if Cassie keeps doing okay for a short while, and then BAM getting serious pneumonia, gets well and then gets serious pneumonia again and again, they either need to find what the cause is once and for all, or talk about quality of life issues.

Their options for exploring etiology in search for underlying causes limited due to her size and her fragility. My two vets holistic and traditional will be talking. I am so sad and weary. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

She was at the vets and did fine. Home with me 1 week and deathly sick again. I keep going over and over in my mind, what did I do? At night was a little cool, not really cold at all and I took her out for potty with no sweater. Only out about 3 minutes. Cool in house also and no sweater. Kicks the blankets off at night when she sleeps. Maybe I should have kept her in her sweat shirt all the time, but she does not do well when she is too warm. I am so confused and distraught.

[AbbysMom08]

I'm so very sorry to hear your little Cassie is so sick.
Please.............know that it is nothing that you did wrong. This is not your fault. You are a good mommie. Your little one has been dealt kind of a bad hand. Poor baby. Am hoping they can find the reason for this.
Will continue to offer up prayers for the both of you.

[jeane]

praying for both you and cassie// you are a amazing mom to cassie

[kimp5]

I believe your posts said the last time her pneumonia was bacterial. Have you checked your home for mold? It rained like the devil here last year and I have a new house that they didn't slope doors correctly to offset the torrential rain. (they don't typically use gutters like they do in the north where I am from) So anyway within a few months I noticed my breathing was weird. So I was looking at the baseboards that faced the biggest area of my home that gets hit with water and saw some softness. Anyway I got a mold kit and that convinced us to get a remediation crew out to look. Sure enough I had mold. I was lucky we caught it before it went up the entire wall (we have 30 foot walls in the back of the house) they had to tear up some wall, plastic it off and get rid of the mold. Now I need all new doors and some molding dry wall replaced. I wont go into how much this has all been.
Bottom line is my breathing is totally normal now and I have a daughter with allergic asthma so I am glad I caught it quick for her, the family and Jess.
Its just a thought. I know it can really rain down south. I hope Cassie is doing better..

[wemple2]

I was wondering the same thing, possibly environmental? Could she possibly be aspirating as she eats or drinks? Even something as innocent as shampoo, hair products or colognes, hers and yours? I pray she gets better quickly this time, and that you are able to find out what exactly ails her. Does she have asthma?

[broodizt]

Thank you Kimp 5 and Kathy for your thoughts. She is still on Imipenem and breathing seems quite a bit better.
They don't know what the nidus is, the etiology. Maybe auto immune one of them speculated but she reacts well to imipenem really quickly, so there's that. No mold in house. Doesn't rain lots in the desert. Did have flood in the house in March, but had all new walls put in and they had a device that checked for mold in the walls and throughout house and there was no mold. No asthma. I feed her by hand off my fingertips a little at a time, so no aspiration pneumonia. Don't wear cologne. Bathe her very seldom due to fear of her catching, guess what? Pneumonia! LOL. No laughing matter though. If she can find a portable O2 cage my holistic vet wants to take her home and care for her there if they are unable to get her off O2. Biggest challenge today, not eating.
Love, Shellie

[broodizt]

Traveled down the coast to holistic vets home to pick up holistic remedy's she mixed up for Cassie and me. She left them there for me because it was her daughters bday and they went to sea world. T/W her several times by phone and texting. Traveling time back and fourth, left 2pm, got back to Cassie at 7PM, got home 8:30 - 9:00 PM Very tired. Going to bed soon.
Love to all
S

[wemple2]

Well, know that I'll do what I can for Cassie and praying is really all I can do. So praying very hard for you both right now.

[jeane]

praying for both you and cassie/ you are a amazing mom

[Princes mom]

Continuing to send prayers for Cassie, and you.

[horsnaround]

Sending more prayers

[joyce evans]

And more Prayers!!!! YOU ARE A GOOD MOM!!!!!!!