Please guys, urgent help needed for my orchs!

[Yanquister]

To make a long story short, I was unable to take care or my plants due to an illness. Was out of commission for roughly 2.5-3 weeks. I returned home to all of my plants looking absolutely pathetic - guess the guy who promised to watch them turned out to be worse than a flake- (apart from the stapelia gigantea, but that's another board).

Anyway, on to the point: most of the orchids SEEM to be fine, just thirsty with a couple of yellow leaves on some -and some wilting on a few of the phals. however the den and the cat are brown and leafless. I cracked open a little piece of one and it was green (forget which one) and did the same to the other and...for lack of a better word...it was like an amber sap poured out.

I immediately gave them all their "bath" (soaked them in water) I'm hoping for the best, but have I done enough or is it too little too late?

Any advice or info? Should I just throw in the towel? I hate it so much because that cat flowered for me nonstop like clockwork and I hate to see it die. Any thoughts are appreciated.

(Yes I am still fairly new so please forgive me.)