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I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to anyone to hear that I've phoned in sick today. Well, I do have a bit of a headache (anxiety-related, I'm sure...), but since I had a meeting in my diary this morning I couldn't really take leave instead and there's nothing in my contract about must-stay-home-to-forcefeed-sick-pet leave. *shrugs*

Lily is off to the vets later today - I thought a late afternoon appointment would be a good idea, as that'll allow me to continue to harass dose her every couple of hours till then and she does seem a bit brighter in herself. Also while not a great deal is going in the front end (and words cannot describe the sensation for me as a vegetarian of literally hand-feeding chicken paste... yeuch), it's not coming out the back the scary way that it was on Saturday and yesterday morning and that has got to be a step forward!

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Back from the vets with no clear diagnosis, though it was the same guy as two weeks ago and he was shocked by how much weight she'd lost since he saw her last.

Anyway, theory #1 is that the antibiotics Lily was on for the skin problem caught her at a bad moment and knocked out the balance of bacteria in her gut, allowing some kind of infection or parasite to take hold. So we have now a different lot of medication she doesn't like (having finished the last lot of medication she didn't like this morning) and strict instructions to bring her back Saturday morning if she's not better by then (or indeed before, if necessary).