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catstuff
03:30 PM - 10/31/2005

The topic: Sick kitty

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Well, Handsome is sick again.  He started getting bad on Saturday.  Having a hard time breathing, lots of drool, over all just feeling like crap.

Saturday and Sunday night I put him in my bathroom with the vaporizer going.  I put down some towels on the counter and he stayed there all night.  I also gave him some food (there is always a crock full of clean water in there).  Last night, he was worse than Saturday and wouldn’t eat anything at all.  I did get him to lap up some tuna water, but he hasn’t had anything to eat since. 

Yesterday I noticed that he was dehydrated, so I tried giving him fluids, but he fought me on the second 60cc.  He only got 60cc total.  Today, he’s not as feisty and I was able to get 120cc into him.  It was in the yard (it’s hot today, right now, it’s 89?) and he just laid there with little resistance.

Yesterday I also bought some Little Noses children’s decongestant nose drops and didn’t give him any until today.  I was told it’s easier to drop them in the eyes than the nose.  The woman who told me this said her cat’s ompthamologist explained this to her.  She tried the drops on herself before giving them to her cat and said that they dried her eyes out a little, but it wasn’t too bad.  So far, I’ve given him two doses.

He got the fluids about forty-five minutes ago.  I hope they help him.  If he’s not showing any improvement by tomorrow, I’ll most likely take him to the vet.  The Little Noses did help, but he still isn’t eating anything (which could be because of the dehydration; my vet said that being dehydrated makes them feel really bad and they don’t feel like doing anything).  He did drink from one of the fountains outside this morning, cold, cold water.

I also think he lost a tooth.  I found one in the condo I’d put him in after giving him the nose (eye) drops.  I checked most of the other kitty cats and they’ve got full smiles.  He doesn’t.  So, it probably was his.  Last Friday, I did a thorough vacuuming of the cat furniture and it wasn’t there then.

*sigh*

Could ya find a way to send some healing, healthy, get well thoughts his way? 

Thanks. 

sad


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catstuff
10:49 AM - 10/31/2005

The topic: Cat origami

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These cats get themselves in the oddest positions and they seem to be comfortable.

Wally settled in to the cat condo that’s by the fireplace in the family room.  His leg sticking out made me laugh.  Such a silly boy.

 

 


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otherstuff
08:46 AM - 10/31/2005

The topic: I’m feeling MUCH better

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I feel almost human again. 

Friday, Brian came home from work early because he’s sick.  But I don’t think he has what I had.  I think he has the flu, I had a cold.

He didn’t feel bad enough to stay home, so we went to CostCo and got all of the stuff on our CostCo list (milk, eggs, cheese, you know, things we need) and came home.  I got everything put away and we took it easy for the rest of the night.

One of the things we got was a different kind of cold/flu medicine, this was Tylenol brand.  I took the Nighttime version, which was supposed to last six hours.  The first thing it did was to really upset my stomach.  It felt so bad, it was hard to stand up.  I mixed a little baking soda with warm water and drank that down.  I was able to burp a couple of times, which released the gas that was in my intestines.  It was nasty.

Then, three and a half hours after taking it, I woke up.  Coughing.  This coughing fit was the worst I’d had since I got this damned cold.  It went on and on and it hurt and my mind was running through the various ways of cutting out that part of my throat that just kept getting irritated.  Saturday morning, I told Brian I’m not taking anything else for this cold.  I’ll take a cough drop, but no more of that crap that is supposed to help me sleep.  The cure was worse than the disease, I swear. 

So, nothing Saturday night and nothing last night.  And I’m feeling almost human once again.

You know, when we go on our annual long Disney trip, it takes me a couple of weeks to recharge, to get back to a place where I can actually carry on a conversation with another human being, someone I’m not married to.  Now I’m at a place where I can start to recharge.  *sigh* 

Two weeks behind schedule.


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