Contagious insomnia
Well, there wasn't very much sleeping done in our appartment last night. If you read sysiyo's last entry you most probably know why. Now he went to grandmom's place to talk things over. I bought a bag of kidney failure food for Spurtti and Sys took it with him. Hopefully the diet will do the trick at least for a while.
The cat has been drinking and peeing more than usual for a year now. And he's been vomiting daily many months. He's loosing weight and muscle although he's eating normally. He's sleeping a lot and his fur is shaggy. The problem is that grandmom doesn't see that these are symptoms and therefore she doesn't tell them to us. She can just mention them as a sidenote. For example I heard about vomiting first time last Sunday. (That was actually what got me really worried because that can mean that the cat is severely uremic).
It would be awfully nice to get some bloodwork done from Spurtti. The symptoms fit both in chronic renal failure and hyperthyroidism. I would put my money on renal failure but as I said, it's bloodwork that would tell it for certain.
The other problem is Spurtti's back. It's sore. Or more than sore, it's painful. I think it's some kind of arthrosis. The cat should be on pain medication continuously, but pain meds are bad for kidneys.
What shall we do? I really don't know. Well, yes I do. We should take a bloodtest, check kidney- and liver values and thyroid hormone level, check blood presure and maybe test urine also (not necessarily though, because I'm pretty sure that couldn't be done without sedation). Then, if it's renal failure we should put the cat on diet and if it's hyperthyroidism we should put him on pills. And despite being bad for kidneys we should put him on pain meds also.
I know how to manage with the cat. It's the owner part that worries me. (Worries me so much I can't sleep, to be quite straight). Maybe we should take Spurtti to school's clinic and see what they say. It'll cost a fortune but it would be the easiest thing to do. (I'm pretty sure they'll agree with me, but still).
Now I try to write some chritmas cards and listen to christmas radio. Hopefully it will ease my worry for a while.
The cat has been drinking and peeing more than usual for a year now. And he's been vomiting daily many months. He's loosing weight and muscle although he's eating normally. He's sleeping a lot and his fur is shaggy. The problem is that grandmom doesn't see that these are symptoms and therefore she doesn't tell them to us. She can just mention them as a sidenote. For example I heard about vomiting first time last Sunday. (That was actually what got me really worried because that can mean that the cat is severely uremic).
It would be awfully nice to get some bloodwork done from Spurtti. The symptoms fit both in chronic renal failure and hyperthyroidism. I would put my money on renal failure but as I said, it's bloodwork that would tell it for certain.
The other problem is Spurtti's back. It's sore. Or more than sore, it's painful. I think it's some kind of arthrosis. The cat should be on pain medication continuously, but pain meds are bad for kidneys.
What shall we do? I really don't know. Well, yes I do. We should take a bloodtest, check kidney- and liver values and thyroid hormone level, check blood presure and maybe test urine also (not necessarily though, because I'm pretty sure that couldn't be done without sedation). Then, if it's renal failure we should put the cat on diet and if it's hyperthyroidism we should put him on pills. And despite being bad for kidneys we should put him on pain meds also.
I know how to manage with the cat. It's the owner part that worries me. (Worries me so much I can't sleep, to be quite straight). Maybe we should take Spurtti to school's clinic and see what they say. It'll cost a fortune but it would be the easiest thing to do. (I'm pretty sure they'll agree with me, but still).
Now I try to write some chritmas cards and listen to christmas radio. Hopefully it will ease my worry for a while.