mom said i am upsetting her

cause i usually eat alot.
and i havent been that interested in food since yesterday.
not cat food.
not baby food.
not canned chicken.
i will eat my treats still. but thats about it.
so mom defrosted me some liver and cooked it. she made the funniest noises when she did that. like it smells bad or something! but she's silly, she only eats green stuff and boring food, not like me, i like meat and fish mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
but i ate some of that. i love that stuff :)

mom said the vet told her i had a lot of poop in me when we went there last week. so mom is worried i may be constipated (i dont know that that is but i dont like it). Oscar's mom said to try cat milk. mom is goin to get that cause she said ANYTHING is better then making the liver again.

unfortuneatly

despite everything mom has been doing, i seem to be gettin sick again.

we went to the vet last wed, may 30th. mom paid alot of money to get all of my samples sent to the new vet so she could send them with some blood and this terrible awful anal sample thing to Auburn University in AL. That hurt soooo bad. mom would never have agreed to the test if she had known about that part. she said it looked like a test tube cleaner that they stuck you-know-where. i screamed. and i almost never talk cept to mom when shes alone so she knew it had to hurt really really bad.

once they had that and my blood they had a completed FIP kit to send to Auburn to hopefully get some definitive results for me.

but mom noticed i keep slipping lately. and my legs dont move the same way anymore. i can still run and play and chase my laser toy, but not for very long and i look a lil wobbly.

this new vet said my weight went down at least another 1/2 pound so now I'm only 6.25lbs. which is a lot trimmer then my 8.5 i was in Dec. before scooter came. before i got sick.

i was getting raw liver which someone recommended for the extra protein (im not an iron deficient anemic) but the vet sai dthats bad too cause the liver rmeoves toxins from your body which may not be good to eat and she said any raw meat has bacteria and stuff on it which is not good for anyone especially not a kitty like me with a compromised immune system. so now im getting baby food, beef and gravy. i chowed down on a almost a whole lil jar myself but mom had to keep moving me cause all of the other cats nearby and the dog were trying to "share" with me!

she takes me out in the yard almost every day she can and lets me walk and walk and walk on my harness (she got me an extra long leash now) and then i sit on her and purr and rub on her. then i chase sticks she drags in the grass. Sometimes Patches comes out for a lil and eventually we all go in. mom said i am the cutest thing she ever saw. 'specially when i go and rub on Grimley cause even though he's a dog he's my bud. Grimley always comes outside with me. he used to take me to the vet but now i go to a cats only place and he isnt allowed so Patches hasta come. he hates that.

im still on my 5mg of prednisone every mornign and night and i get my feline omega interferon shot every other day. mom doesnt know what else she can do for me...

I was tagged---

---by Peanuts, who gave up his place in my moms house for me and my brother and our friends.


The Rules
Each player starts with seven random facts about themselves. Cats who are tagged need to write on their own diary about the seven things and the rules. You need to choose seven cats to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment that they have been tagged and to read your diary.


Here are my seven facts:

1. I got my name cause Mom wanted me and my brudder to have "matching" names. so based on our markings we are Spot and Patches!

2. I was so small when my mom got me i was only 2.25lbs. that was when i could fit in my yankees shirt.

3. I am the smallest cat in the house but i am the toughest out of the young cats! i used to growl when other kitties came near my food when i was eating! now i dont do that anymore...

4. I LOVE to play in the grass. if i find a dirt patch i roll and roll and roll in it till my picks me up and untangles my leash and wipes me off. i get all gross and dirty but she said im too cute to yell at.

5. I go with my mom to brush her teeth every night then i tuck her into bed and purr and knead her neck. then when i hear her alarm in the morning i do the same thing again just reversed!

6. I have been sick since March 30. and i keep getting worse :( mom is getting desperate. she said im her favorite. but i think she says that to Blue too.

7. I am such a good boy for my shots, my meds, the vet trips...everyone just falls in love with my lil self.

I'm tagging:

1. Mooch
2 . Vincent
3. Sophie
4. Hazel Lucy
5. Cookie
6. Mr. Claus (in loving memory)
7. Frosty

New Update

Hi everyone, we got my labs newest back. I am sorta the same. which is better then worse right?

and my hemobartonella test came back negative :(
so i dont have that, which is a bad problem but not as bad as FIP.

now i am on feline omega interferon, thanks to poor Fred's mom (since uinfortunately he didnt make it and his mom let us buy it from her to try and save me) so now i am getting needles again every other day. yuck. mom even does them herself now which i cant believe but i like it better then having the neighbors touching me. now grandma snuggles me and mom pokes me! ouch!

at least i got tuna after, but mom snuck some vitamins for anemia called antler 8 in that!

so now we have to see how i am doing after 2 weeks. mom is hoping my eyes go back to blue grey (theyre greenish yellow now) like they were before i got sick. that means im in remission. if i do get better, then i get one shot once a month for 6 months. much better then every other day!

Just checking in

hi all, just wanted to let everyone know that i'm still here! still doing ok...
eating well, even maintaining my sexy 7lb physique ;)
i know i was a little plump at 8.5 pounds like i was in dec, but mom thinks i am better off at 8lbs. but i cant seem to get that pound back no matter how much/often i eat! but at least im not losing anymore!

i am still playing and snacking since mom got all this new stuff to spoil me. she got me greenies since those werent recalled and i hope they dont take those away from me too!

our fav treats were these ghetto ones from walmart mom decided to try since Tater is SO picky about treats and he HATES getting his teeth brushed (dont we all? but at least im good about it, he is NOT) and mom has to bribe him to get his feral butt to come out again once he sees the toothbrush. this was very hard to do with no "safe" treats.

anyway, mom made me get more blood work done (she is lucky she is my fav person in the whole whole world or i wouldnt be speaking to her anymore) and she paid a silly amount of $ for my blood to be sent to Cali for a parasite test.
I am suspicious right now though since i fear she is not done having my lil white booty poked with needles and that she is going to make me get ANOTHER test done this time to send to AL to chck me for FIP since she emailed some famous Drs from all over the world about me and most of them said to do it.

so, wish me luck, hope all my furry buddies are doing well.
and mom said i should thank Oscar's mom for her since she has been so good and helpful to mom as they try to get me better!

I wish he was wrong

the vet just gave mom my results...all inconclusive in and of themselves, but they all point to FIP which is almost impossible to diagnose, incurable, and fatal.
mom thinks from what he told her i may not live long enough for my hair to grow back and it looks even worse after the bone marrow and lymph node aspirations they did yesterday...
mom wasnt ready for two of her cats to be in boxes within such a short time...

Dont Laugh

at my new pix since i will be sporting a shaved belly for a while since i had that silly biopsy done!!!

wow, im so popular!

thanks and purrs for all of my rosettes!!!
i feel so loved!

Update

mom said i am SO good for anything they do to me *proud*
from shoving this giant antiobiotic pill down my throat to getting the Epogen shot every other day...the vet techs always say how sweet i am...even when they extracted a urine sample (with a needle to my bladder!!!)

and after going through all of this, my blood count/anemia is going lower and lower. for those of you who know what this means these are my HCT numbers:

4/1 19.9
4/6 18.7
4/9 17.4
4/17 16.5

the vet said not to panic yet, that the numbers might improve by next week since I only started steroids today...i hope so.

she also said this whole thing makes her feel sooo stupid cause the vets seem to speak a foreign language...poor mommy...

My Mom first noticed I was sick 3/31/07

So she took me to the vet sunday 4/1/07 for what turned out to be a sinus infection (I still didnt feel good) and they said I had a low blood count (which may be from not eating/drinking so I needed to be rechecked that fri 4/6/07) AND I had gone from 8.5 to 7.5 pounds.

On 4/6/07 they tell my mom I lost more weight, from 8.5 pounds down to only 7 pounds. and my blood work has not changed. so they ran more tests on me and gave mom special food and supplements (forti flora) to help me gain weight.

On 4/9/07 back to the vet i went

Yesterday, 4/11/07 mom took me to a vet in Long Island with the lady i was adopted from since the vet she uses is very good and my vets seemed to be unable to diagnos me. She even came with us and stayed with mom all day while I was worked on at the vet.

here is the synopsis of what they told mom yesterday:
They decided to do an ultrasound
and since they found that my kidneys were bilaterally abnormal the vet then biopsied both of my kindeys.
he said this can be caused by either a congenital birth defect or one of three types of cancer, but they wont know which till mon or tues when the lab sends back the results.

At least this vet knew as soon as he touched me that I had an abnormally large organ, he was just uncertain which one until the ultrasound unlike the vets at my regular place who had no idea I had anything funny with my insides.

So now mom has to give a needle every other day with Epogen for cats to get my bone marrow to make blood cells and stop this anemia while they determine whats wrong with me and how to treat it, if treatment is possible...
I dont know why this has to happen to me since I'm just a baby...

since march 31st i have cost my mom over $1500 in the last week

hopefully, she has to pay alot more and get me all fixed up so i can stay here and not go live with Peanuts yet :(

Especially since today after getting that shot I feel SO much better and have been purring and walking as much as usual...