Mew Diary

Home from the vet school

What a day! Mom packed up my things in the car, then took me to the car. She at least didn't make me get in the carrier...so I could crawl under the seat and feel more safe. We got to the vet school at 9am. Mom put me in the carrier to take me inside. Once we were in and waiting to be seen, she let me out. I walked around a bit, then she picked me up and held me. The waiting part wasn't so bad. Now that I'm deaf, I don't get as scared. :)

The two students who looked at me were nice. The liked me because I was a good girl. I was calm and let them do what they needed to do without being squirmy or hissy.

Mom came back to get me at 6pm. I'm half bald now!!! They shaved a 3 inch wide by 8 inch long section of my tummy and sides to do an ultrasound. Plus they shaved a 1/2 inch wide by 4 inch strip along my chest and side to x-ray my heart. Plus there's the shaved spot on my tail from the vet visit 2 1/2 weeks ago.....if I'm not careful...they'll make me into a Sphynx!! (Mommy would really love that though...she want's a Sphynx pretty badly)

So Mom got a pretty good list of things that are wrong with me. Nothing really new, just more information and how to approach handling my health. It turns out, controlling my hyperthyroid is the key to dealing with my other issues. Once the thyroid is regulated, my heart murmur, kidney disease and hypertension could change...for the better. The hyperthyroid affects all those things and they can't be managed well until the thyroid stops sending bad juju to them all! So I'm on hyperthyroid medicine, hypertension medicine and once those two things are managed, I'll be retested for kidney values and heart status.

The funny thing is...the reason why I went to the vet school in the first place was the mass under myhard pallette. At least 5 people looked at it and none of them felt there was anything out of the ordinary. There may be some cause for my congestion, but the docs aren't willing to put me under with my health issues as they are now. I'm too much of a risk. The attending vet said the other problems were much more possible to become life threatening over a little congestion. So...for now...I'll have a stuffy nose from time to time. Hopefully there's nothing like horriblly wrong growing there. With any luck, Mom will get my other stuff under control and soon she can have someone look my nose to see if it's an actual mass or big medical conern of some kind. Until then...I'm happy to go in for blood work only!!!

Everyone sung my praises at the vet school. Mommy was told that I may have been the best behaved cat ever seen. I had no problems with all the people looking at me and poking at me. I didn't even need sedation, like other cats do, to get my ultrasound and x-ray. The staff was just amazed at how sweet I was. It made Mommy very proud!

I go back in one week to check my hypertension and in a month to check my hyperthyroid.

I was happy to go home last night and clean up....even though I look rediculous all patchy bald and stuff!! Mommy was really glad to have me home too. We're all very glad I didn't have to stay the night.

Purrrr