#he just got some nausea medicine and bloodwork done so HOPEFULLY it's just an upset tummy. and not anything else
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cats are so fucking much like hooly shit i love them and cried all day but i can't take anymore of this. Pleaseeeeeeeeee let this just be the worst of it 👎
#file#had to take another cat the vet for unexplained vomiting and thankfully his xrays came back clear soooo#he just got some nausea medicine and bloodwork done so HOPEFULLY it's just an upset tummy. and not anything else#and another cat already had surgery. which was so astronomical i dont even want to speak it out loud again#no more cats after these ones omgggg. maybe i should just consider fostering
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Month 8 of 6
At the end of June, my cat Patchy was diagnosed with Lymphoma and given 3 to 6 months to live. We’re about to start month eight. Here’s an update!
Warning: a little grossness below.
Last Update was around month 4, didn’t realize it’d been that long since I posted.
I took her in again near the end of October because her bathroom behaviors and uh, consistency... started changing. So basically my vet saw her he was like “Her breathing is too hard, she’s probably retaining water.” He took her and did an x-ray and yep.
So basically the medicine that’s keeping the lymphoma at bay is causing her to retain a lot of water, this is apparently a normal side effect of the medicine. So since then, she’s been on a second medicine once a day to help her not retain water. So now she gets special food twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, one for each medicine. It’s been smooth going, with one checkup near the end of December that went well. I had another checkup scheduled for next Wednesday.
I celebrated the end of the year, even all by myself, because after the extremely dicey spring with Leela and Patchy, they both made it to the end of the year and everything past that date with Patchy is just a bonus.
The last week or so she’s been “going” outside her box, and it’s not been as it should be, so I moved up her appointment to this morning. I also have felt like her breathing is again hard. But hey, literally no lympoma symptoms have cropped up. She’s eating a ton. She’s drinking a lot. Almost no vomiting except like, a hairball twice.
But her stomach is clearly having medicine-related issues. The vet said this morning that he’s first of all in awe of how great her lymphoma (or lack thereof) is doing. He continues to not be able to feel it in her body, and we’re thrilled that it’s held at bay for now seven full months. The vet tech said that they almost never see a lymphoma patient live this long.
But we need to do more about the stomach issues, she’s extremely gassy and... yeah. So she got a probiotic shot and is now on a third medicine for this week that will hopefully settle that down. This one will probably be more challenging to get her to take. =\
But honestly, I will take managing an upset stomach for her in exchange for her otherwise feeling good. Just need to keep adjusting as long as she’s otherwise comfortable. The vet said he will not make any more projections, we’ll just keep her as healthy as possible as long as possible, until it doesn’t make sense to do so anymore. We’re still far from that point, thankfully.
Honestly, it’s been so long since her diagnosis and things have gone so well that aside from the literally one extra minute a day it takes me to measure and drop her medicine in her food, it’s easy to forget she’s even sick. Every once in awhile I remind myself that at some point soon there will be a bad day, followed by a bad report at a vet appointment and soon thereafter a decision and then a very bad day, but I haven’t dwelled on it too much, instead enjoying every good day.
And as for Leela, things are still great! She did have a bad day a couple of weeks ago, so she went to the vet, got rehydrated and anti-nausea meds, and then full bloodwork. Her bloodwork looked great. This was not the first time she had a “queasy day”, happens once every six months or so for the last several years (and why I didn’t at first jump on taking her to the vet on the first skipped meal back in the spring). But the vet has no worries about her right now, just to keep an eye on her. She’s been eating and drinking and normal every say since that day. She’ll be 17 in April, and hopefully around for a long time after.
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Fry and Pemily... are absolutely fine. No worries about them, though Fry is 12 going on 13 now.
Aside from them, I have literally not done a damn thing for months. Been awhile since we played D&D in person, since like... November? I didn’t go anywhere for Christmas / New Years. Was supposed to go to my Brother’s and see the family but I didn’t because of Patchy and Omicron. Cancelled going to the MST3k Time Bubble Tour. Video games, work, TV, online TTRPG... that’s my entire life.
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