My Update

Hi everyone. As you might remember, my guts are having issues at the moment. I have had persistant diarrhea on and off since I first became unwell. Nothing we've been trying is fixing it up.
My v-e-t gave mum a very fun task over the last 10 days. She had to keep collecting my poop! The samples all got lots of tests run on them, and that resulted in exactly NO clues as to what is going on. Well, I suppose there was kind of a clue. We know there are no parasites or bad bacteria or anything like that involved. Today we are starting a course of anti-inflammatory tablets, as my v-e-t believes I may be experiencing a kind of immune response that first caused my vomitting and the haemmoraging and inflammation in my tummy and is now causing trouble in my bowel.
If you could spare a purr, I would really appreciate your help in trying to make this treatment work. We are moving in January and I have to go to the cat hotel in 5 weeks. We are really starting to feel the time crunch, and mum doesn't want to leave me when I'm not well.

The good news is that I have continued to not vomit, and after losing weight over the last month I have since gained a little bit back at my last weigh in. I have another check up on Friday, so fingers crossed my reports keep getting better.

My Eyeballs

Hey everybuddy! Today I wanted to show you my eyeballs. They don't have much colour in them, they kind of look tie-dyed. I have a small amount of colour close in next to the pupil, and it fades as it gets closer to the outside of my eye. The rims of my eyeballs are white, while Fui and Suey's eyeballs stay the same colour from the pupil to the rim.

Sometimes it gives the impression of me being cross eyed, especially if I'm looking down at someone from my cat tree or up at them from the floor.

Have a happy weekend :)

Thanks Dad!

It was mum and dad's 1st anniversary on the weekend.To celebrate, Dad got us some roses. Thanks Dad!

:)

Friday Freak Out

There was a great big old thunderstorm this afternoon. It was banging, it was crashing, it was flashing.

None of us were wearing our happy faces. We're hoping there wont be a repeat!

Wordless Wednesday

Kittenman Monday

Oh hi! How're you today? I am great. Because guess what. We have birds living in our guttering! They chitter and they chatter and they drive me absolutely loopy.

It's kind of the best entertainment ever.

Back!

Hi everyone! We're back! We were quiet this last week because my G-Ma and G-Dad flew over from PoppyQ-town to visit me.
I got a pretty good report from my post-surgical check up. I had a bit of swelling around my incision, but that is going down and I have healed really well.

We got some more detail about the biopsy results. We initially thought it was completely normal, but they did find inflammation in the samples. The good news is that the v-e-t said it wasn't major inflammation, and there was nothing else nasty in there. My v-e-t has put me onto another type of food to see if that helps with my back end. It's been a bit all over the place back there, sometimes perfect and sometimes not perfect at all. Have a happy weekend :)

Wordless Wednesday

Results

Hi everybuddy,
We got my results back today, and while a bit confusing, they are fantastic. The pathologist said the samples were normal. There were no signs of cancer, and no inflammation. My vet is quite surprised, it is not what she was expecting. You might remember that when I had endoscopic biopsies they showed inflammation and areas of haemmoraging in my tummy. That's not there now. Our next move is to cut out the antibiotics I have been on and see how I progress in the lead up to my 10 day check up.

We're all very happy and very thankful for the results. My normal vet and my specialist vet have both seen cats who presented in exactly the same way with the same symptoms as I had who were diagnosed with lymphoma, which is why they were urging me and my mum to be as thorough as we could be. It was what we have been scared of this whole time. Now we know that is not going to be my diagnosis. It does mean we are not certain why I started vomitting blood, but we know we have gotten it under control, and that is amazing. It looks like the combination of the antibiotics and the antacids did their job. I'm now eating about 2/3rds of what I was prior to the surgery, and have kept it all down except for waking mum up this morning with a vomit.

Thanks for your kindness in recent weeks. I am a lucky mancat :)