Thank you Rene and Sally. I went to get the gabapentin after work.. *sigh* I am going to be the lone burrito woman... lord help me. Maybe if I don't give him anything to eat for a day and then a special kitty snack I can get him to scarf it down, lol. 

I can hear it now every time he breaths. He sounds like a 2 year old with a stuffy nose. I think I would feel better if he were snotty. I videoed the dry 'cough' to show the vet, now if I can get him to try to blow something out of his nose I can show her because you know once I get there he will be symptom free....

Thanks for keeping us in your thoughts. Every time I get something accomplished, something else happens and I am just overwhelmed right now. 

So sorry for the late update. I had another family emergency and had to go home for a week. Huckleberry is doing better. We don't know everything that is going on with him yet, but it appears he had bronchitis and responded well to antibiotics. When the doc did xrays, she told me that one of his lungs had partially collapsed. She said he also has an enlarged heart, but no murmur has been detected. I took him home on Monday, and we are finishing his meds... although he is getting harder and harder to medicate over the last couple of days. He also has a tooth that may or may not need to be extracted. 

So the plan at this time is to finish the second round of meds and try to get him in for an ultrasound. He has had no more coughing, no more sneezing, and is very much back to his old self. 

I am not sure how I am going to schedule all of this as I will probably have to go back and forth to be with my family. My mom is not well and we don't have a lot of time left with her. A lot of this is wait and see, so if Huck continues to do well I will just take things as they come. On a scale of prioritizing, I have to put my mom first. David isn't here to hold down the fort anymore so it's really just me juggling things the best way that I can.