cedric is in significant distress tonight

he woke up about an hour ago after a fine and uneventful day. now he is in obvious distress and i am pretty sure in a fair amount of pain. i spoke with colleen but she is out of town til around 9:30 tonight so til she can get back, we agreed i would give him some tramadol and see if it helps him to settle. if he becomes critical before that time i will take him to the emergency clinic in langley. but the bottom line is if we can't get him settled and comfortable given his serious cardiac and lung disease, we won't be looking too much further because his little body has been hanging by a thread from the day he arrived.