Whoa it's been a while. I should post here more. And here, and here, and...

Anyhow, let me tell you about the cat.

So Rasha, he of the swiss cheese kidneys, crashed a little while ago, and so we took him into the vet for a couple days of IV fluids. He's doing well again now, don't worry! But he's getting more subcutaneous fluids, which he doesn't ( Read more... )

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So we learned from the internal medicine vet that Rasha has polycystic kidney disease. That's pretty bad news, unfortunately -- with PKD, cysts slowly take over the mass of the kidney, thinning out the capsule and thus reducing the volume of the part of the kidney that does the filtering, causing kidney failure.


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Meme, via rho: Open your favorite paint program. Close your eyes. Draw a cat. Post the results.

( meow )