February 2007

Nothing like spending the afternoon in the Walmart with an 84 year old lady who can only walk a few feet before tumbling over.

You know, I really wanted to write about this but I am so drained, so thoroughly drained, that I don’t even have the strength to talk about it. I just want to forget it.

The results of her protime test (at the heart doctor’s office) was within the range is it supposed to be. She can take the same amout of rat poison (Coumadin) and doesn’t have to have it checked for another month. At least that was good news.

I have to take my mother-in-law to the heart doctor tomorrow for a finger prick to check her protime level. I dread it. She will henceforth and forever be referred to as “the Old Lady”.

FanceePantzz was the one of the three that wasn’t sick at all. All she is is FAT! heh

Can’t leave her out so here is her picture.

We put ointment in both of Shimmer’s eyes last night and this morning and they are both improved now.

Maybe I can think of something else to write about besides these cats. :p

It just seems to be working out that way now. *big sigh* (I sure am sighing a lot lately.)

When we took them all to the vet last week Shimmer’s left eye looked a little weird so the vet gave us some ointment to put in it which we have been doing faithfully.

For the last few days he has been sneezing or coughing every once in a while which I know is not a good thing for a cat to do. Now I just noticed his right eye looks like it is infected and it is closed. Looks like another trip to the vet’s office first thing in the morning.

Skid got to stay home yesterday and he was very happy about it. All in all, he ate a whole can of food (one teaspoon at a time during the day) and was quite a bit more lively than he had been. Over the weekend he was doing so poorly that he would not even lift his head up. Now he walks around and yesterday he even went out on the screened porch.

We took him back to the vet this morning to have his catheter removed from his paw. He was given some pain medication and some antibiotics. His right hind leg still seems to be causing him pain. He is not eating as much as yesterday but at least he is eating.

There was a brief time that I was wondering if this was the end of the road for him. He is not completely out of the woods yet but hopefully he will recover fully and live another happy few years.

Skid spent the day at the animal hospital again today. When he got home he started eating on his own! I hope he continues to improve. He gets to stay home tomorrow. Yay.

Hubby force fed Skid over the weekend but he still refuses to eat by himself. He took Skid to the Vet early this morning and left him there all day.

Skid’s blood sugar was elevated at 278 and we’re told the normal level is 160. He was put on an IV, given appetite pills and force fed during the day. His blood was checked several times during the day also. Hubby picked him up at 6:30pm and brought him home.

He would not eat anything at all and would barely even pick head up. He yowled when he went to the litter box and we never did find out that that was all about. He has to spend the day at the hospital again tomorrow.

Hubby and I took all three cats to the vet last Tuesday for their routine checkups and they all got their vaccines.

Friday morning I noticed our oldest cat, Skid, would not eat his breakfast. This worried me of course, so I called the vet who said to bring him in the next morning.

It turns out he had a delayed reaction from the rabies shot which was making him sick. The vet put a subcutaneous pouch of liquid under the skin on the back of his neck because he had lost 5 ounces of weight since Tuesday and she said he was dehydrated. She also gave Skid a shot and some high calorie food and taught us how to force feed him in case he still didn’t want to eat.

This is my third attempt at a blog. I moved the first time because I didn’t like my subdomain name and I decided I liked Drupal better than Wordpress. So what did I do but move to another subdomain? lol I’d call myself a dummy but who knew? I had no interest in monetizing a blog back then.

So now I have a PR2 blog on the subdomain and a PR0 blog on this new domain. And now I’ve decided to switch back to Wordpress! geez

There is no use crying over spilled milk though, is there? The only thing I can do is pick up and move on from here. Only 3 months (approx) until Google updates their page ranks and hopefully I can be ranked by then. *fingers crossed* I don’t like having a PR0 website.

I’ve started and deleted so many blogs it isn’t even funny.

I always found something I didn’t like about them though so I just deleted them instead of trying to fix them. After all, if you’re on a subdomain instead of you own domain you either have to grin and bear it with a subdomain you don’t like, or you can grin and bear it by starting over again.

I choose to start over. By golly, I’m going to keep doing it until I get it right!