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Mittens' Mutterings & Musings

My stitches are out!

My stitches are out! My vet said the incision is healing nicely. What a HUGE relief!

Everyone at the vet's office calls me a sweetheart and remarks on what a good kitty I am. That's because I am a sweetheart and a very good kitty -- just ask my mommy! :)

Why I had a tumor on my thyroid when I don't have hyperthyroidism is a mystery to both my vet and my IM/oncologist vet. The specialist said he's seen the same thing on a few other occasions but it's rare. It's possible I may be on the threshold of developing hyperthyroidism. We now have to keep an eye on my thyroid. I will have blood tests for my thyroid every 3 months for at least one year. Mommy is to keep a watchful eye on my throat and exam it often to make sure no more tumors appear. As far as my lymphoma and chemotheraphy, all is looking good and I only need to go for CBC panels every 6 months.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your purrs and positive thoughts! It helped keep us hopeful and much calmer during all the waiting we had to endure and we believe it had a big effect on my tumor turning out to be benign. The power of the purr is mighty and awesome!

Kaci, mommy and I thank you for all of your kind, thoughtful and supportive pawmails, comments and rosettes on the loss of mommy's dad and our grandpa. We will be checking Catster every day but are still not ready to come back more than that.

Love & hugs,
Miss Mittens

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Biopsy results

The biopsy report is surprising. It's also good news. The tumor was a thyroid mass. It appears to be benign. The biopsy results are also being sent to my oncologist for his comments. My vet doesn't believe anything more needs to be done.

Mommy was out when my vet called and left the message, so she hasn't talked to her. We will discuss it with my vet when I see her tomorrow to have my stitches removed.

Mommy is a little confused. What does a tumor -- even a benign one -- on my thyroid mean? What caused it and why? I have no symptoms of hyperthyroidism and my thyroid tests have all been normal. Hope to get answers tomorrow.


Hugs,
Miss Mittens
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Starting to act and feel like my old self

Mommy is very sad because her dad passed away yesterday. Since this is a site for and about cats, I’ll say no more other than Kaci & I will not be around much in the coming week.

I wanted to tell our friends that I’m recovering from surgery without any problem and doing very good. Mommy is very relieved about that! Tuesday and yesterday I was not quite myself and was very quiet, but today I started acting and eating the way I normally do. Mommy hasn’t been neglecting me and I’ve been taking all of my medications exactly when I’m supposed to. My incision site looks the way it should look and I’m not picking at it (or mommy hasn’t seen me pick at it!) Mommy noticed I wasn’t loopy after this morning’s dose of pain meds. This evening I took my final dose of pain meds and I’m still up and around so the effect must be wearing off. One less medication to take? You’ll hear no complaint from me!

Mommy’s computer crashed yesterday morning and she can’t get it to start without it immediately crashing. Her photos and documents are gone. What upsets mommy the most is losing hundreds and hundreds of photos that she took of her family (including the most recent photos of her dad) and of Kaci and me -- everything she took during this year is lost because she didn’t make backup copies or prints of the photos. Mommy thinks she knows when something bad happened that messed up her computer. She will no longer be going to and using websites like photobucket or opening any attachments or clicking on any links unless she knows it's absolutely 100% safe. We will no longer decorate our pages. Our family’s angel kitties have decorated pages that can stay up forever but once Thanksgiving is over, Kaci and I will have to make do with plain ole’ Catster pages. :(

Mommy is now using her dad’s computer. Grandma said the computer is now mommy’s computer and that her dad would want her to have it. Grandma never uses the computer -- she doesn’t know how or even care to learn! -- and it would just sit there unused, so mommy gratefully accepted the gift. She would be lost without a computer! Grandpa’s stuff is still on it and using it makes mommy think of grandpa all the time and how much she misses him.

Wishing all of our friends a Happy Halloween!

Hugs,
Miss Mittens

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