Hello friends of the feline variety,
I am greeting you from cloud 7. I can tell you the last weeks have not been great for me, but I am feeling better now. I am missing my human and I guess that's why I tried so hard not to go where I am now.
Since the last blog I have been trying to get my arthritis under control but unfortunately that is the bane of getting older. It is not getting better, only more painful. My human gave her best to alleviate the pain. I noticed that it took me longer each time to settle down and even the softer cushions didn't help much. The injections I received from the vet once a month were less and less helpful and I felt restless and had memory lapses. I also noticed that my human and her partner tried not to yell at me too much even when I created a bit of a mess after leaving my litter box. They were cleaning up behind me and soothed me with soft words.
Although I had seen the vet on a very regular basis I did not have another Thyroid test done as I seemed to deal well with the medication that was rubbed into my ears twice a day. But when my human ran out of medication and fell back to the tablets I did not like that at all. I felt sick and lo and behold I vomited them up again with or without food I had just eaten.
I am glad though that my humans gave me pain killers which relieved my pain temporarily. Noticing all the changes that went on inside me, I tried to be as close as possible to my human and took every chance I had to climb on her chest and headbutt her and enjoy the scratching and petting she administered to my very skinny body. That seemed to be another side effect of my ailment. I was continuously losing weight although I was ravenously eating and drinking. My human could hardly keep up with cleaning my litter box.
I enjoyed to go outside in the backyard and just lay in the high grass and sleep the day away. I guess that's when I felt less pain.
The pain got the better of me in the end. I gave my best but it wasn't enough. The last few days my human noticed that my poo had turned almost black (which seems to be an indication for internal bleeding) and the day before yesterday I started vomiting right after I had eaten. My body was giving away noices that even I had never heard before and I felt really crappy. My human sensed that something was wrong with me because I alienated myself into the darkest corner of the library. She and her partner were conversing in hushed tones and yesterday he took me to the vet again. I could feel he was very upset and then he called my human who had dutifully gone to work (as she always does). A short time later she came into the vet as well and though she tried to hide it very hard she was upset as well. I felt shitty and that made it even worse. She wispered endearments into my ear but I was having trouble listening. I am pretty sure she told me how much she loved me but I only wanted to have the pain go away. My body was burning and after a while the nice vet lady took me into the back room and attached a needle with a plastic thing in my front leg. Then she brought me back to my human and while my human had tears in her eyes she hugged me and then the vet injected some green fluid into that plastic thing. I turned around and looked but all of the sudden my head went light and my legs gave way. After that came darkness and the pain went away.
Now I am in a very interesting place but that I will tell you about later.
Your beloved Feline
Fluser
