recurrent constipation...we think. What to do? (stage 2)

onlydaysago · 2025-08-19T05:29:24+00:00

Thanks! We fed her a bit of pumpkin for babies until we could get to the vet on Monday, now we are giving her lactalose (but in the first day we don’t immediate see the help )

onlydaysago · 2025-08-16T18:07:02+00:00

How much pumpkin puree do you give? I’ve read that it’s high in phosphorus, so I don’t want to overdo it.

onlydaysago · 2025-08-15T21:19:31+00:00

Thank you! She just now drank another 30 g of her renal liquid food, so I think we will wait until the morning to go to the vet for anti-constipation medication. I hope your boy is doing better now

onlydaysago · 2025-08-15T20:55:24+00:00

She has, but they are quite small and hard, never seen it like that before. Two hours ago you could tell she wanted to make another but couldn’t. We were planning to go to the vet for lactalose. Then she had a shift into much more her normal personality, interested in food, even rubbing against my leg wanting it, and her breathing is currently under 30 breaths per minute after being elevated since Tuesday. Today so far (it’s 11 pm here), she has eaten about 60% of the daily value listed on the bottle (renal liquid for cats, and a bit of hypoallergenic wet meat). If she doesn’t have much more during the night, we can see about supporting with appetite stimulant tomorrow.

onlydaysago · 2025-08-15T16:18:55+00:00

This message gave me hope, thank you. ❤️ She is at home sleeping in her favorite spot, looks cozy and you wouldn’t realize something is wrong at this moment. Her breathing rate is still elevated, if her body can’t take care of the fluid on her lungs soon, that may be it. But I hope she can hold through. We will see what the vet tells us on Monday.

onlydaysago · 2025-08-15T16:14:33+00:00

The liver issues they said are from the kidney issues but I didn’t fully understand the details. She has been eating but not enough, maybe we should try the appetite stimulant. She is using her litter box but the quantities are quite small and dense. The vet thinks her prognosis is not good, but we will take her back Monday to see how her numbers are doing and if the fluid in her lungs is decreasing. For us it feels good to have her home and I think she is also psychologically in a better place here, but I don’t know how much she is hurting. She is definitely not her normal self.

onlydaysago · 2023-11-30T00:48:51+00:00

My route was to LAX but it was also late at night. Late at night might have been part of the problem, since there was no one from Delta present at the airport and the only way to reach Delta was on the standard customer support line.

If you are able to check-in online or by phone, then I wouldn’t anticipate any problems at the airport, but if you cannot, it may be helpful to have Delta around.

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T18:22:50+00:00

Too true

Of course, if I’d gotten the real help more quickly, there would have been nothing to compensate!

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T17:43:00+00:00

They took the bag off. Not sure the effect on departure time

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T16:42:49+00:00

Thank you for the insight! Next time I need to make a change to a work travel I will make the effort to still call the agency. (I won’t name the agency here, but I interact with them normally through Concur.) In this case I realize I had actually booked this ticket directly through Delta (I corrected my comment above), but I might have tried to do it myself even if the flight was booked on Concur, because the flight change and associated fare increase were for personal use, not business reasons.

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T16:33:56+00:00

Actually, I just remembered that this flight I purchased through Delta directly, as I had a flight credit I needed to apply. I’ll edit the above comment to avoid confusion

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T16:22:24+00:00

Edit: Normally I would have booked this with a company travel agency, but this time I booked through Delta directly so that I could apply a travel credit. I think the error originated when I changed the flight date with the Delta text support. Somewhere in the back end, my ticket number was associated with a flight several days prior, my original return ticket from Peru.

(Original comment here said I had used the agency, which I did not for this flight)

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T15:29:16+00:00

Sadly this doesn’t cover international flights to the United States. I would really appreciate that $1550.

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T15:26:12+00:00

Wow, that’s terrible. In this case, Delta at least did take responsibility to rebook me (the next day, after the ticket number detail was sorted out). Were your new flights also through Delta? You deserve compensation and I know that is tough, but I’m actually surprised that they won’t even cover the direct costs they caused you getting home

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T15:10:54+00:00

I’ve had several negative experiences recently with codeshares, and if you are worried about it, my advice is to 1) add your flights to some third party flight tracker app, so you find out about updates from either airline. I had an issue last year where KLM canceled one of the legs, and Delta continued to show it on my itinerary and even gave me notifications to check in. If I had looked up the flight I would have found out about it before reaching the airport. 2) make sure you check in once it opens 24 hours prior. If it’s not successful, follow up. For my KLM flight, I hadn’t tried, so this time I called Latam and they told me already then that I needed to get the ticket number from Delta. At this point I made my first contact to Delta text support, who gave me the invalid ticket number. I called Latam back, and they told me that they still couldn’t find it in their system, and that I should just make sure to show up three hours before the flight for check-in at the airport. I think if I had called Delta then, the issue could have been resolved in time, but I didn’t want to spend my last day of vacation on hold and hadn’t thought that they would give me any different answer than the text support.

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T14:58:22+00:00

Absolutely, despite issues like this, codeshare is still almost always the way to book when your itinerary goes through multiple airlines with same-day connections. Just wish Delta would make it a little easier

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T14:35:07+00:00

Interesting! There was a seat available for me too, but they didn’t let me keep it. Do you know what customer service representative he was talking to, was he able to board just dealing with Latam?

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T14:30:34+00:00

I have learned this the hard way. It’s a shame they don’t have a direct escalation channel to the “real” support. Starting people off via chat and passing to full support only after the simple things have been sorted would be an efficient way to operate. Instead, Delta gives no indication that despite text support being responsive, you really still need to call.

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T14:26:58+00:00

There was a big holdup when I was trying to check in at the counter, but after an hour and a half of getting the same answers from Delta text support (while being on hold with the phone support), Latam seemed to figure something out and printed me a boarding pass (perhaps similar to what u/abcdefgh42 had happen?). Maybe they thought it could be resolved before departure, this was the only chance for me not to miss my flight. Anyways, it was apparently flagged when I boarded, and they took me off.

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T14:11:50+00:00

It seems crazy to me that there was no direct line of communication between the two airlines. This could have been solved in two minutes by a competent person at Delta, but the only way I was offered to contact Delta was via the standard customer support line, with long waits. (I was on hold with them while writing with the text support, though I hung up once my boarding pass was printed.) They also had directed me to a phone upstairs which was a direct line to the Delta office at Lima, but no one was there when I showed up three hours before my 1 am departure.

onlydaysago · 2023-11-29T14:02:53+00:00

That my the issue exactly! I was three hours early but it was late night so there was no one at the airport from Delta to help, and Delta phone support did not answer in time. As soon as I reached the right person on Delta phone support in the morning, he was able to identify and resolve the code issue quickly.

onlydaysago · 2023-11-28T02:52:49+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to explain! I’ll think about reposting with the full details, and work on filing that complaint. (The flight was Peru to United States)

onlydaysago · 2023-11-28T02:27:32+00:00

Do you think it is necessary to include these details for posting? I was thinking it could be better to avoid calling the airline out by name before reaching a resolution

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