Well, she's not dead yet. Last night when we got home from Evening Prayer she was gone from the spot she'd spent the day: she'd gone down into the basement for whatever reason, and I found her on the futon, shaking her paws as if they were wet, though they weren't--no vomiting, no diarrhea--they were just cold. She had used the downstairs litter box. She had also drunk quite a bit of water through the day, though she hadn't taken any of the slurry I'd put down for her.

This morning, I was still in bed & she came up the stairs to get me. She took all three syringes without a problem, and her tummy appears to be shrinking, though I haven't measured her waist. I've brought her upstairs, and she's on our bed now (fingers crossed: I don't want her to hurt herself if she needs to get down, but I put her on the floor in the sunny spot & she just looked up at the bed, so I put her back up). I do think the pain meds make her a little loopy, so I've decreased the amount by half, although last night she wouldn't even take that much. She starts licking her chops whenever I pet her, so I guess that means she approves the regimen, and if whatever that is/was in her tummy is shrinking, I'm going to try to get more calories in her. The ampicillin & pain med are q.12h, so I can give her slurry every hour if she'll tolerate it. Now that she's hydrating herself, we might make some progress.