THE NEW CAT ROOM! (or the Cat Room #2)

And do keep posting, Debra! Cat folk find endless fascination in these stories.

Oh snood, I'm hoping that the worst is over for George by now. (Hours later) That was a pretty extreme reaction to anesthesia (the throwing up, paricularly). Your vet should know about that.

I'm hoping George is feeling a lot better.

OH MY WORD

I have been having kittens

Both boys, up the tree and onto the neighbours shed roof - just how many times can they lose their footing?????

Been out twice today - that's about as much as my nerves will stand

By the weekend.... I should be able to let them out and not follow them around for hours...







............. and breathe!






Snood - how's George doing today?

You have been very brave, Izzie!

Well done! I am very impressed!

If I was you, I would have fainted by now! The stress, the stress! (I'm not kidding!)


I'm wondering about George & snood today, too. I so hope all is well with George!

George is much more himself now. He looks a little funny - he has long black hair everywhere except where they shaved his leg from armpit to paw. And he is clearly uncomfortable with the stitches - shakes his paw like it's wet every so often, and licks and bites at the ends of the stitches that slightly stick out. If I had time I'd post a picture of his pencil-like appendage.

We go to get the stitches out on the 19th, and we should also get the biopsy report back around then. It's been great to have you guys to bounce this off of - I definitely didn't feel as panicky as a result of knowing other cat owners had similar experiences.

Yay for George - so pleased.




The boys have been out all morning - Murphy's just got back (phew) and I can hear a nasty cat growling fight going on next door..............oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!!!!!!!!! Been calling Kitty Cat Black Boy - but he's not coming back at the moment. I really ought to just chillout about them - it's so hard tho!




<goes off to make tea and find chill pills>


edit..... happy happy - he must've heard me typing - he's just run in and no war wounds. yay

I'm delighted to hear that, snood!

Please do keep us posted on his progress.

In the meantime, I know George will have so much love, care & attention! Which is exactly how things should be, with a recuperating pussy cat!

Deb, I can't find your Miranda thread.

So I'll ask here instead: has she stopped vomiting now? How is she today?

I do hope the worst of the vomiting is over! Poor little thing!

http://able2know.org/topic/130246-1

Thanks Deb. I now have your thread on email update.
Couldn't find it anywhere!!

Sadly, judging from past experience, it'll be some time before she is herself.

Just about to Do The Pill.

Here's Nekochan, having left her bowl to pull rank on Miss Molly during lunch,
just like a momma cat. Not a whimper of protest from Miss M, who waits for an
opening when Nekochan lifts her head.

This looks so much like Nisse and Mysan. We even have the same bowls!

Nisse is trying to catch the computer mouse. But my hand is on it!

That is is unlike Nekochan, neko! And here was I, thinking she was the gentle, placid one in your household!

How nice of Miss Molly to be so obliging. But then, I suspect she doesn't go without!

<waving to urs, BigDice, Nisse and Mysan>

Such civilized critters! That would never have happened when I was feeding the feline hoards & masses in the past. Much easier, feeding time, when there's only one mouth to feed!

Love that one!!!

Love that one! I LIVE that one! Although the weapon of choice around my place is not usually a baseball bat (only for lack of same!). It looks uncannily like my place, I'm afraid!

The biopsy came back- a cancer. The prognosis is "guarded". they told me if it spreads it'll probably be to the lungs first. Our options are not good. Take him to chemo (haven't asked how much the cost is yet, but the vet said its prohibitive enough that most won't do it) and put him through that ordeal, or "wait and see' if he gets sicker - monitor the wound site and palpate lymph nodes every so often; watch for lethargy, lack of appetite, vomiting...

The wound site looked good for several days, and we had the sutures removed a couple days ago. But now its open - don't know if george picked it open or what - don't know if this means anything at all. But I'm taking him back in tomorrow to have it looked at.

The helpless felling of being at the mercy of a disease and the fact that george has to go through it is really hard right now - on top of some other stuff I'm going through.

Anyway, thanks for listening.