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I've been diagnosed with HCM !

Holidays are good times, here at our house :)

I haven't written much, lately - mommy has been busy with all the Thanksgiving cooking... YUMMY !!!
Mommy cut the Thanksgiving turkey in half, and cooked one part for her and our "daddy" her son.
THEN -- she cooked the OTHER half of the turkey for US !! She put catnip on our half of the turkey, instead of those yukky human preferred spices.

The aroma of that turkey cooking all spiced up with CATNIP made all of us follow mommy around meowing and purring ALL the time it was cooking, and cooling. As soon as it got cool enough, she took all the bones out, and fed all of us wonderful warm pieces of turkey. We ate till our bellies were ROUND -- YUM YUM!

I'm feeling pretty good these days - and I wanted to send out a special thank you to Jeter Harris, his brother Sampson and his mom. Mommy and I are SURE that all their prayers for me to feel better have helped me get used to my medicine, and the poem he wrote to me made my sick heart feel so much better!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season - and we can't WAIT to find out what mommy will cook for us at Christmas :)

Warmest purrs to all my kitty friends,
Casper

The Cardiac Vet

When mommy took me to my regular vet on Saturday to get my yearly shots and "boosters", as always, the nice lady vet who takes care of all of our furry family members checked all my vital signs.
Much to her dismay, and our mommy's horror, the nice lady vet said I have a VERY LOUD heart murmur, and should be taken to a cardiac vet as soon as possible.

So, the vet referred me to the nice Dr. Ingrid and mommy and daddy drove me to see her, yesterday. I was really afraid, but mommy talked to me with her softest and sweetest voice, and told me this new Doctor would test me and find out if there was something they could do to make me feel better.

She put this cold jelly stuff on an instrument and rubbed it around on my belly - YUCK ! I held on tight to the edge of the exam table, but I was a very well behaved kitty (as always) and patiently allowed her to rub that cold wet stuff on me and look at her little TV screen that showed my heartbeats.

She told mommy I have a disease of the heart, called Hydrotropic Cardio Myopathy, and I would have to start taking medicine every day.

The GOOD part about that is she told mommy she could put the medicine in my VERY FAVORITE TREAT in the WHOLE WORLD, instead of just pushing a pill down my throat.

So, last night when mommy got home from work, she got a small bowl and put a spoon-full of VANILLA ICE CREAM in the little bowl, emptied a capsule of little tiny things that look like pearls into the ice cream, and let me have it ALL for my own.

Mommy is really sad, right now, because our "Grandpa Kitty - Sasquatch" had the same disease - but he was a LOT older than me. He died from complications of the disease, and now mommy is worried that I will start having the same problems Grandpa had.

But the way I look at it - when I was a baby, some nice people rescued me from a dumpster near a used car lot, where all I got to eat was garbage. Then my mommy saw me and said she HAD to have ME... so for 2-1/2 years, I've lived in her home with all my other furry family members, and mommy has always said I was her "Sugar Kitty" and she loves me VERY MUCH. I will stay here and take my medicine (in my ice cream) like a good boy, and I hope to stay with mommy and daddy a long time.

I guess it's a good thing that SOME people who study to be doctors decide to do the extra study to be specialists and be HEART DOCTORS for KITTY CATS!