Monday, February 10, 2003 We’re down to twenty three cats now. Boney died at the vet’s office this afternoon. When the vet called he said that Boney had at least 10x the amount of fluid in his chest that he had last Wednesday. Because of the amount, the doctor didn’t want to use a needle and syringe to remove it, but to put a tube in. And to do this, Boney had to be masked down. Boney’s heart was so weak, even though the medications he’d been on had helped it somewhat, that it couldn’t take it. And it stopped.
The fluid also looked much different than it did last week. He said it had a pinkish tinge to it. He stands by his diagnosis of last week, but said that it looked like Boney now had chylothorax. That it was probably a blessing that Boney was gone because treatment would have been difficult for all of us. He said that it would have been painful for Boney because he’d have to have a tube in him to drain the fluid.
The saddest part is I was so sure I’d get Boney back, that I didn’t say goodbye. Oh, sure, I loved on him a whole bunch before I took him in, but I didn’t say goodbye at the vet’s.
Now, Lucky is the oldest.
I went over to the vet’s office to make arrangements for Boney’s cremation and to pick up the carrier. On the way home I had a little talk with God. I told him ‘okay, you’ve taken three from me now without giving me one in return. Is that going to happen soon?’ Then I started crying.
And ob-la-de ob-la-da life goes on. La.
Annie still has her clumpy urine problem. It isn’t all the time, only once every couple of weeks, but it’s not a good thing. So, I’ll be taking her in Friday for a recheck.
DeeJay puked all over the loveseat sometime last night. I should have known something had happened because he ended up sleeping with me on my pillow. He only does that when he doesn’t feel good. He ate a ton of food last night, obviously way too much. *sigh*
Everybody else seems to be doing alright. Knock on wood.
We’re supposed to be getting some rain this week. I surely hope we do. I’m in the mood for rain. I would like to see some external rain in my life. Yesterday, I worked on fixing the rain gauge connection. I thought it had been fixed last year when I redid the connector and Brian plugged it in, but it never did work properly. I had emailed Oregon Scientific about getting a replacement gauge, but never heard back. I figured I’d give it another shot. I moved everything out of the way and climbed a ladder to sit on the file cabinet where it would be much easier to do what I wanted to do. It took me a couple of hours to finally get it done the way it should have been done in the first place (and if I’d done it correctly to begin with, it would have taken less than fifteen minutes), but it finally started sending data to the weather station when I’d shoot water into the container on the roof. I made a huge mess of the office windows, which I cleaned this morning. I’m ready for some rain.
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