Minnie Mao! Where ARE youuuuu???

We could not find our little kitty, Minnie Mao the other morning. She is strictly indoors especially at night. After calling her for over an hour and half and searching all over the house and outside, I finally found her. She had crawled into her carrier, which was behind some chairs. She was so sick that she couldn't even come out when I was calling her. Apparently she had tried to eat a bug or a spider, we think, and instead, it bit her. The bottom of her chin and throat were all swollen up. She was lethargic and could not get up or even move. She sat there with her inner eyelids closed and her eyes slightly open and held her mouth slightly open. She was so glad to be found though, because as sick as she was, she began to purr loudly when I picked her up! We took her into the vet who told us that her symptoms were non-specific...(she also had a slight temp). It could be any number of things, but agreed that it was consistent with a bug bite. She gave her a shot of B-12 and gave her something to help with the pain and swelling and also we took some antibiotics home if we did not see any improvement since we didn't know for sure what it was. (As much as I hate the idea of antibiotics!)

Minnie Mao did not seem any better by that night so we gave her some antibiotics. She threw up a short time later, but by the next day she was less lethargic...still not eating or drinking. She did not eat or drink for 3 days. Friday night I took her off of the antibiotics, since she fought it so much and always threw up shortly afterward. I guess it made her really sick to her stomach. Finally on Saturday morning (yesterday) she ate a little in the morning. She didn't eat again until today, but not her high dollar canned cat food (we are about out of raw venison)--she would only eat the canned red salmon that I keep in the pantry to make salmon patties. So I am glad she is finally eating something. She seems to be much better, but still sleeps most of the time and as far as I know she has not peed much or pooed in a couple of days. But she has shown moments of perkiness and has even played a little. Unfortunately, she is still interested in bugs.

So, there's the kitty's story. Our sweet little Minnie Mao. She is less than a year old and has had such a rough life! (Did I tell you how I almost (or probably) gave her a concussion with the foot rest on the recliner a few months ago?) and then starting out life as the little tiny runt she was and almost dying of starvation?