Surprise, Surprise

Abby ate her dinner tonight. All of it. From her bowl. And it was kibble. The new, grain-free kibble that she has been refusing to even look at closely. Okay, so it had some "cat food soup" added to it - warm water swished around in a nearly empty cat food can. But, still, she ate all of it. Over the past few days she had started to eat a few pieces of the "old" kibble when it was tossed on the floor - but not out of her bowl.

The second surprise was that she then proceeded to eat all of her supplements in peanut butter. Gobbled them down. Who would have thunk it? I'm beginning to wonder if the high liver enzymes haven't been having some effect on her appetite and maybe they are starting to recede and she's perhaps feeling a little more like herself.

The focus for the past week or so had been on Abby's not eating. A few days ago, the focus changed because I realized that focusing on her not eating was causing me to not eat and then I thought, "Am I not eating because Abby's not eating, or is she not eating because I'm not eating?" - the short version of that was wondering if my stress about her not eating had begun to affect her and discourage her from eating. So we started just not caring if she ate or not - not in a heartless way, but in a matter-of-fact way. "Okay, so don't eat it then, if you don't want it." I wondered if maybe she knew something that we didn't. Maybe it was better for her body to not have much food to process for a few days - giving the system a little downtime, maybe. She also was able to eat anything that she wanted (which still wasn't much) as long as it was not likely to make her sick(er), of course... And magically, she ate tonight (so did I, don't worry, Mom). Whether we had anything to do with her change or not, I'll never know...

So here we are. Not sure what tomorrow morning will bring, of course (or even the overnight hours). But with the full moon shining down through the middle of the skylight right now, things feel pretty darn good.