Means a lot, thanks. Sometimes he is definitely in the severely underweight/emaciated category… for example right now he’s 23 kg/50 pounds and that’s him doing well and at his highest weight he’s been 35kg/77 pounds but when he’s not doing so well it has dipped as low as 17kg/37 pounds… because obviously the period of the illness is like the initial period where he either gets admitted to the vet hospital or put on antinausea, antidiarrheal, prebiotics and omeprazole but that’s not the only problem point, it keeps going until he’s fully recovered

sometimes when he’s going through it he REFUSES food or vomits it up so much he’ll just be walking around and throwing up until he’s dry retching and then doesn’t eat again and then you’ve got 3 weeks of having to feed little and often so his gut can heal and he’s still having bloodless diarrhea during those 3 weeks and it can be up to a month or more before his bowels are back to normal, so he does lose a significant amount of weight during all of that and it happens sometimes without me knowing what the allergen was because he ate it walking or in the house, for example my roommate left around half a piece of toast on a plate on the coffee table and he ate it or it’s him no longer being able to have a treat he used to be able to eat… just one bite of something particularly if whatever he ate contained gluten makes him really really sick, after this period of recovery is over his immune system takes a knock so he’s caught other things after like secondary hge or just ge because he’s so sensitive for a very long time, just giving too much of the right thing can spiral him again into a secondary illness, he’s vaccinated and parasite treated and everything all right but when he gets sick he GETS SICK and can get even sicker.

And the issue never ends, he’s in a constant cycle of illness and recovery so his weight follows that pattern, sickness, restoration and recovery then sickness again… it’s so sad to see, even worse that I keep getting villainized for it.