Crack o' Dawn

 Kitties!  This is me...the crack o' dawn with not much light as mom straggled into the bathroom and found me doing my usual.  Monorailing on the rub edge..and I used my toesies only to inch my way further up to the water dish..and stretched out as far as my neck would permit me to drink my morning fill.  

THIS time she was able to fly to the living room and get the camera.  She has never been able to successfully take a picture of me monorail drinking until today... early morning at the trough!  Unually when she scurries back with the phone, I am looking straight at her.  Like..." who was drinking?  No idea!" 

(The iPhone automatically lightens too dark a picture.  It's a feature I don't care for.) It was darker than this. 

This'n'That

 Kitties!  Mom's been busier than hen's teeth this morning and afternoon.  She was assembling cleaning tools after we had breakfast--- getting dressed and about to pitch in.  A call said James her grandson wanted to come over so the heck with cleaning.  He and his mom were here till lunch.  After they left mom got busy.  The last thing on the list was the kitchen.  The floor was not too clean looking so mom got cracking with Zep wood cleaner,  She waited for it to dry and skated like  Dorothy Hammel way back when, all over it to shine it up.  Look!!

She skated up and down several times.  I snoopervised as you can see.

She always starts with the bedrooms, all of them, and works her way forward to the living room and kitchen.  I was sleeping to be ready for snoopervising in the kitchen.  See me at the door?

Summoning my mancats for a visit

Ready to Receive

Mom!  It's after bedtime.  I've been waiting! 

Mom is a pig with these things.  She peeled and sectioned all three pounds of them and ate them every night till she was ready to bust till they were gone. 

Labs

 Kitties, Mom and I got bad news.  There is a slight upside, however.

Not surprisingly I have stage 2 kidney disease.  Mom didn't know that. She thought this would be hyperthyroid--- and it is.  I have that as well.  I am right on the line between high normal and high.  So it is just getting a start.  My severe constipation is helped tremendously by Miralax. The Vet didn't tell me to use that or any other advice.  As I wrote last bloggie, two cat-loving CB parents told mom about the laxative and gave the perfect tips on what to do about my food.  

So now, I am having stools every other day and a few times several days in a row.  That has made a HUGE difference in my consumption of food. I never was fussy that way Mom mistakenly thought I was.  I was feeling terrible and not hungry because of the severe constipation.  Now that is relieved for now and I am flying around all the rooms... menacing the trespassers outside...playing with and throwing my toys.  Inviting play sometimes.  I bring several of my babies i.e. Donkey and Mousie to Mom at night again.  I am happy and very playful, jumping up  playing with my wand toy.  Both of my meds are here now btw.   Something for KD and something for the hyper T.   She still wishes to have I-131 administered to me though that means being separated from me for 5 days or so,  

Mom was and is sad about this but she is trying to adjust.

Seeing me so happy and feeling good helps her. 

Good Day

 Kitties!  That new wand toy mom got me has galvanized me into a lot of action.  I have a video of me playing with it when my brother was here, but I wasn't leaving the floor leaping.  I sure was  jumping up for it last night!  I must have risen by several inches off the floor each time.. seriouslies. Then, I went to my room and meanaced my very small (maybe 4 inches) Yeoww fishie.  He was scared to death.  

Mariodacat sent me my first one back in 2012.  I went bonkers over it then.  Eventually, the rod broke and other things happened..so after it went to the Bridge, I didn't get a new one untill a few weeks ago.  Halleluja. 

This is what I have been behind for months now.  Mom just saw me playing with it, just now so I hope it's in a better mood!  I've been out of sorts till a few days ago

Here I am enjoying this morning.  I haven't been here in months!  I have just been feeling poorly.  The sun is gleaming on my furs and on my tree. 

 My loved mancat, Boomie, whom I met on  "Whisppie" settling down comfy to watch my video a few days ago!

His mommy quit blogging after her much-beloved woofie Whisppie went to the Bridge, but we all still keep close. 

Mom was so glad to see that after Miralax, I had a decent stool again. This place has been all about me for a long time now.  I lost four pounds between April last year and April this year.  So mom is feeding me some kitten food to keep me able, she hopes, to maintain my weight.  We are still awaiting the lab results from my senior exam.  We both know they won't be good.  Mom called last Friday which was a week.  She will call again on Monday. 

Another Good Grief!

 Kitties, Woofies!  There I ate like a champion Monday.  Used my litterbox if you know what I mean, twice!  I have never seen a grown-up Mom get so happy over the usage of a litterbox for "solid waste"!   

Then Tuesday, I didn't want to eat at all.  Not all day.  Worried her.  Wednesday I had a few bites until mid-afternoon I started eating my dry  Whew.  Then my wet.  Nothing in the box that she was hoping I would deposit.  But today, I have eaten like a champion.  I even stood around in the kitchen asking for more to eat.  Two times. Mom burnt the floor up hurrying to serve me.  That ought to unleash the "solid waste" tomorrow or in the night, surely.  

Mom went out on advice to do so and bought some kitten food.  I lost four pounds in one year.  April to April.  Mom is hoping to keep me from losing any more. 

I am becoming rather svelte.  I weigh 11 pounds and I was a queenly 15 pounds just a year ago.  

By the way, still no word about the lab tests.

Mom's gleaming svelte little Girl less than an hour ago. . 

Better Times

 Kitties, Woofies, Snakies!! Things are better.  Thanks ONLY to the CB, I have Three Cats and Trout Towne Tabbies to thank with all mine and Mom's heart for how much better I feel.

My bed at the peak of our 92% eclipse 3:07pm

Me, with food in my tummy

I have been constipated as well as not eating hardly at all for several weeks.   I was discharged with no advice at all about the eating situation nor what to do about the constipation.  Thank goodness for these two wonderful bloggers in the CB.  Without them, I wouldn't have known what to do about the constipation.  "I Have Three Cats"  http://ihavethreecats.blogspot.com told me exactly what to do.  And it worked like a charm.  The next morning I had a small hard stool.  Then, yesterday, after meds and quite a bit of meal times,  I had a normal large stool in my box!   Trout Towne Tabbies told Mom how to get me to eat the medicine.   And Tabbies suggested many other things for me to try eating.  Mom didn't know. It worked wonderfully well like nothing Mom has ever seen.  I ate every drop of the liquid treat Mom was told to mix the laxative in!  That helped me have that wonderful poo this morning!  Yesterday and today, probably thanks to finally eating a decent amount of breakfast and supper ---and grazing in the day, I had success last night or this morning in my box.  

And Kitties, Woofies, Mom and Dads, I feel SO much better.  I played with my new Neko Fly...I ran as hard as possible all OVER the house last night before bed.  I brought Donkey a little way down the hall.  I tossed my new strong catnip toys all over the room.   

I was served a big snack before bed (F.F. Chunky Chicken) before bed and I fell to it...scarfed it up in a couple minutes.  Took off flying all over the house, my eyes as wild as they had ever been.  Mom chased me., growling....I ran hard some more and had the best time in months!! 

Grateful for our friends here on the CB and the love.

Long Day

 I was gone from 9 till 4.  Mom has pretty much made up her mind.  She will speak to two other Vets and see what their procedure is for the examination of a frightened cat.  These drugs have to go if at all possible. It's a Fear Free Practice but that only works for all their dogs,  They want the cats drugged.  Gabapentin and also an IV in my case. with a wake up shot.  I am dragging around with my tail down...almost but not quite between my legs.  I am eating a lot surprisingly.  But they said my colon was full and mom saw when I managed a tiny bit that the stool was very sparse and hard.  Miralax tomorrow.  I seem wary of the litterbox too.  Uh oh. 

I was full of adventure, fun and lovins but now...I am pitiful.  Never again.   It'll take a long time for me to come out of this.  It took months last year.

*Mom Here: Are you ready for this?  They showed me the bill before services.  Just under $800.00 believe it or not.  I asked how did that get that high when last year it was $325.00 or thereabouts.  What could possibly be the reason for twice as much for the same thing?  I told the tech it seemed I would have to take her home and find another vet.  The charge went down to just over 500.  And I still complained.  She said she would have the finance dept look to see if I was still overcharged.  But this drugging has to stop*.

Look what was waiting on me when I  got home, Kitties! 

A Snakie! 

Kitties!

🙀  Kitties, Woofies, Rabbits, Snakies, Mousies and Gerbils!  I am having to go for the Big One in the morning, and I will be dropped off... groan....assuming all goes well, by 9:30.  Mom is going to try to get me to have a Gebapentin beforehand.   She will give me a Churu and mix the Gabapentin in it.  If she can't, she will still be dropping me off where I will have two capsules given to me. I will have to cool my pretty heels for two hours somewhere and then, I will have a lesser amount than before (last year) sedative shot before the big exam.  It's a question of my BP and heart rate at my age.  

Mom said I have several things going wrong and she has written and given the Vet office a sheet with particulars on it...about me.  Sigh.   I'm a little scared this time  Mom is more scared this time. I will also get my senior shots.  Mom won't be getting shots!...what's up with that??? 🙀

Look at this though Kitties! I am still active- playful and loving. I RUN back and forth to threaten introoders at night and in the day!  Mom will try to catch me again.   Video wouldnt take...

Momma couldn't video me leaping way up which I was doing yesterday.  I think I just wasn't quite as into my new toy just then, but you will see me doing more soon.  

A dear friend has had mom leaving fresh food out for overnight and I have been eating much of it if not all.  I was getting so I was hardly eating, so this new style is a blessing. We don't know what happened.  It was all at once.  I got constipated too, because of that, but finally came up with something.  Don't tell the boy cats!  A girl has to keep her dignity! 

I won't be a happy girl when I finally get home hours later.  I'll be sad for weeks.  Mom will have to wait a few days I think till the lab results come in.  All of this, the symptoms of the worst things for kitties, it just all came on me suddenly.  Please purr for me .

This was Easter Sunday.  So was the Video.