Eat, Herman, Eat!

Here I am in bed again. I am spending a lot of time here. It's so comfy and warm. It's right in front of the heat vent. I was a good boy today. I finally ate my Benefiber food early this morning -- Mom gave it to me very late last night. I ate almost all of my pro-biotic food, too. Mom gave me some Medley without any medicine in it before she went to work and I ate that all up, too. I am also nibbling at my crunchies. Tonight when Mom got home she put out a whole lot of fresh food for me and I ate some Stinky Goodness and some Medley with Benefiber in it. She has started giving me this pouch food with gravy and I usually lick up all the gravy. Sometimes I still look at all my food and meow at Mom like I want something different.

Karen Jo: I don't know what that could possibly be. You have four kinds of crunchies and three kinds of wet food out all the time. Tonight I brought you a roasted turkey breast and cut some up very small for you and you didn't want it. It was still nice and warm, too.

It smelled good. I really checked it out, but I didn't feel like eating it.

Karen Jo: I am glad that you ate more today than you did yesterday. You are still not eating enough, though. You were eating a can and a half of Stinky Goodness plus crunchies when you were gaining weight after you got settled in here. Today you have eaten about 3/4 of a can, plus some nibbles of crunchies. If I can get you back up to one can a day, I think your weight will at least stabilize. That's about what you were eating when you gained back a little after your first weight loss. One of the things that really scared me was that you were asking me for Temptations, then not eating them. Tonight you ate up the ones that you didn't eat earlier and asked for some more, which you also ate. I don't really want you filling up on Temptations, but any food I can get in you is good at this point.

I had one watery poop today, but made some more pudding poop. Mom thinks that may be because I didn't eat all my Benefiber until early this morning. I'm not giving Mom any trouble about the Interferon or the Pred and I even enjoyed my brushing this evening.

Karen Jo: That was bothering me, too. You walked away from your brushing last night and this morning and you usually love it. Maybe you were remembering that I hurt you once when I hit the mat with the brush and you weren't sure whether or not it would hurt again; or maybe you just weren't feeling good enough to enjoy it.

I am really glad that the nasty mats are gone. I just wish I felt more hungry. It's like I want to eat, but then I decide that I don't really. Then I go get another drink of water.

Karen Jo: I am very glad that you are still drinking so much water. It's good for you and keeps you from getting dehydrated. I feel much better tonight and I do know, really, that I am doing everything that I can to help you get better. Now, go eat some more, Herman.