It's just the nature of the beast.
Today was day 7 in her non vomit cycle so I had already planned to reduce her rations for the day. I am always hoping....
She was also due for a poop and had one in the early morning. Normal size, mostly fur. So, while I still planned to skip her last breakfast serving, I fed her the first two servings (half hour apart) with every confidence that they would stay down. The first meal did, the second, a half hour later, did not, and both meals came up with the episode.
No stagger (that has never come back thankfully). And no fur in the puke either. I want you guys to know that as hard as I have worked at acceptance over these episodes, lately most of the time I am there. I don't writhe in helpless agony over every puke. I simply praise Mazy cat for making it to the cardboard, and clean it up. On we go.
So I gave her the last meal of the morning, adding in two of the supplements that had come up with the first two meals, plus I added some SEB. (she doesn't usually get that in the morning, only at bed time) That serving usually only includes marshmallow root, cosequin, her morning probiotic and a drop of ACV. But I added the SEB and her s.boulardii, skipping the EYL for the morning.
She ate that without trouble, then went down to the litter boxes and had another, larger poop, again, full of fur.
So you see...no matter how much I try to look ahead, plan, work around...somehow, it always comes, that vomit episode always comes. I realize of course that if I wasn't always trying to look ahead and prevent, it could be much worse.
And I am grateful that, most of the time now, I seem to have reached that place of acceptance. Sometimes I still do get upset..especially if she has episodes too close together, for too often, but mostly..I am coping and not feeling that helpless frustration any more.
