This June will make four years since a dude with full-sleeve tiger stripe tattoos pierced my naval (Katherine had a nipple done and did not even blink, but I am not that hardcore.  Later she confessed to putting on a brave front for my sake, but still).  In the days that followed, I realized that every muscle in the body is somehow, directly or ( Read more... )

It would seem that, in addition to jumping on my commission drive, local friends passed the hat around for Frankencat and purchased a gift certificate at my vet's (who, I'm told, were all "Oh, is this for Rick?" because he is known to them now).  Like, a sizeable one.  As in, I choked on my own spit.  I have no idea which parties were involved in ( Read more... )

( You can do better than this, February )

First thing's first: another seizure hit 2:30 Monday morning.  I am disturbed by how REGULAR they are, happening every two weeks on a Sunday/Monday.  I'm told that seizure-patterns are not uncommon, but it still seems...strange.  I feel like they happen at the end of fabulous weekends, thereby overriding all the wonderful things that go on.   ( Read more... )

THEY DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING ( Read more... )

So, this is what I know right now:

( And what I hope to do about it. )

It's not toxoplasmosis and it's (probably) not heartworm.  Both tests came back negative.  So it's on to poking about for neurological causes.  I have an appointment with the Vet School on Wednesday morning, and we'll just have to go from there.

They must have siphoned off a sizeable amount of blood, because they drew from the foreleg and blew the ( Read more... )

Guys.  I have a theory.

HEARTWORM.

My vet listed it as one of the possible causes, so I was doing some research.  THEY ALSO CAUSE ASTHMA.

So what, I ask myself, are the chances of having an epileptic cat AND a cat with asthma, versus the chances of having two cats presenting symptoms of heartworm infection?  In the south.  Where I have noted, IN THIS  ( Read more... )

( Gonna have to start cutting this stuff... )

Rick had another seizure tonight (technically last night) at 10:45.  I took him to an Emergency Clinic, where they did a physical and checked his glucose levels (71, low but not flatline low).  I'd hoped to run bloodwork, but they literally charge four times as much as Cozy Cat, so I will take him first thing in the morning ( Read more... )