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5:18am May 27, 2015

Fey’s vet visit — good news and bad news.

Good news:

  • They cleaned her ear out and nothing was seriously wrong with it beyond a lot of black earwax stuck in it.
  • She thoroughly enjoyed getting high on the pain meds and sedation they gave her.  (Hell, since there’s no risk of a cat abusing drugs she has no access to on a regular basis, she might as well make the most of it.  The vet seemed to think so as well.)
  • She’s going to have ear medication to keep this from happening again hopefully.
  • They did blood tests to try to figure out why she’s throwing up.
  • The vet said there’s a lot of possibilities, and a lot of treatment options we can try to see what, if anything, works.

Bad news:

  • While she may have that condition that Nikki has (which is easily treatable, which is why it would be good news), she didn’t show any signs on the examination, so it’s unlikely.
  • They still don’t know why she’s throwing up.
  • She has lost 25% of her body weight since last August.  She only weighs a little over 7 pounds.  Lifting her to put her in her carrier was like lifting a feather.  Because we couldn’t find all her carriers, I had to use my smallest kangaroo pouch carrier.  The one she never properly fit in before. She fits in it fine now.  :-(

I really hope she doesn’t have anything like what I have.  Gastroparesis would suck for a cat.  

10:31am April 13, 2012
This was during the vet exam itself. They had a fuzzy mat they put out, I’m sure she appreciated being able to dig her claws into it. She looks terrified here. But she only hissed once and didn’t bite anyone.

This was during the vet exam itself. They had a fuzzy mat they put out, I’m sure she appreciated being able to dig her claws into it. She looks terrified here. But she only hissed once and didn’t bite anyone.

10:29am April 13, 2012
At the vet today, Fey jumped off the table and tried to hide in her carrier.

At the vet today, Fey jumped off the table and tried to hide in her carrier.

6:27pm February 6, 2012
This is Fey after the vet. They had to put her under briefly for some mildly invasive testing. They told me it wouldn’t be enough to make her “loopy”. What they didn’t understand was how traumatic the experience is when you’re a cat and don’t know what’s going on. And time disappears and comes back and you are sore from blood tests and catheters and in a cage in a room full of cats (when you hate other cats and stress out when you’re near one). Not to mention your own cage smells like someone else. I can’t explain what it is about her body language here. But if she was human she’d be crying. I can see it all over her body.

This is Fey after the vet. They had to put her under briefly for some mildly invasive testing. They told me it wouldn’t be enough to make her “loopy”.

What they didn’t understand was how traumatic the experience is when you’re a cat and don’t know what’s going on. And time disappears and comes back and you are sore from blood tests and catheters and in a cage in a room full of cats (when you hate other cats and stress out when you’re near one). Not to mention your own cage smells like someone else.

I can’t explain what it is about her body language here. But if she was human she’d be crying. I can see it all over her body.