A More Permanent Hell

Cat vet appointment yesterday! Sunny's wellness visit & vaccines. Plus booking for her bloodwork & dental next month.

She is old and weird :D she is covered in warts (okay, six of them) that cats generally do not get. (The vet repeated this like three times, cats RARELY get these, and never like this! You're one for the case studies, Sunshine!) She also has yeast on her claws and goopy ears and probably both seasonal & food allergies. These problems are all probably interconnected (they definitely all started at the same time). She also is a little chonk but we all agreed that was just her Shape because it is a consistent and unchanged weight for her. Oh yeah, edited to add: she has some age-related deterioration in her eyesight, but not cataracts, just that she might not be seeing as well when she's doing her jumps these days.

But her steroid dose is apparently not worrying (they can lead to diabetes so I am always worried about it), so that was a relief - we have been trying hard to get her down to quarter pills and it worked for a while until a flare up a couple weeks ago. The doctor thinks it might just be because it's spring. Yay, spring. She thinks she'll probably go easily back down in dose after the peak of summer. But she also wanted to try half pills every other day instead of quarter pills every day, so cat experiments on the horizon, I guess.



A few days ago, taking in them good good pollens

But she needs to have a dental exam because she's 13 and has never had one. And they're going to give her a special test to find out if she's more likely to die under anaesthetic (because she has had a heart murmur even though no one has heard it in years and years). I was like, "what if they find out it's more likely she will die under anaesthetic?" and apparently the answer is uhhhhhhhhh.... death. You gamble or you leave her in growing pain (I have not seen evidence of tooth pain - yet. But also, she is a Cat). But basically, you are gambling with slightly better info. This is awful???? So really pulling for a good test result. (They're also going to let me know how much wart removal costs so we can at least remove the one that annoys her the MOST while she is conveniently knocked out.)

In happier news, I took in a second pee sample for Nico and he had NO crystals in his urine, which we were concerned about, and now I'm wondering if it's just because we've been feeding him home cooked dog food lately and if crystals would come back if we went back to normal food. Locked into the deluxe dog life by a pee test. Nice to be spared another prescription food for now, though. (Sunny's food and treats cost a combined 145$)



Relaxing post-vet (the dark spot under her chin is where she scratched through her skin when her allergies flared - it's scabbed over now)

In other news, Kelly went to the frozen food store while we were with the vet and bought SO MANY PASTRIES. My freezer is jam-packed with frozen pastries right now. And I am still glued to the NASA livestream as usual, but especially psyched for splashdown tonight O_O! (Also watching ISS tours on Nasa en Español lolol fun crew up there, too!)