I have the ick. Specifically, some sort of virus that's affecting my throat and the lymph nodes in it. I don't think it's bacterial, like strep, based on a visual inspection, so for the time being, I'm just going to rest my voice and drink lots of warm liquids. Otherwise, I feel pretty okay, but it's just annoying and limiting. I have lots of ( Read more... )

My beloved furmonster, Nox, has small cell intestinal cancer ( Read more... )

-- Oh, daylight savings. How you completely eff me up. No kidding, I have gone to sleep at 9 or 10 twice this week. Me, the nightowl, who will happily work until 2am. Something about it getting dark so early just makes me want to eat dinner and sleep ( Read more... )

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Nox is not getting better. He's barely eating. We are probably going back to the vet sooner than one week. I've been having crying jags ( Read more... )

I am back from sunny (and extra-hot) Florida. I have pictures and thoughts and a big post to write about it. Just not now ( Read more... )

Dr. Zumpano says Nox is in perfect health. Bloodwork was normal. Kidneys are fine. Liver's showing no indication of FLD. He's just a butt ( Read more... )

Every Autumn, Nox decides he does not want to eat cat food. He announces it by very suddenly stopping eating altogether, sending J and I into a panic. We sit with him by his bowl so he can prissily peck at it secure in the knowledge that we are watching him. We try new foods, which are generally rejected. We buy him chicken and hand-feed it to him ( Read more... )

In the past four nights, we have been visited three times by a cat that I have started calling Loudmouth ( Read more... )

It's to the vet with Olive later today. For the past 48 hours, she's been suddenly, ceaselessly incontinent. We've been voiding her bladder like normal, and still, she's dribbling constantly. The last time this happened, it was a UTI, though I assume it could also be a change in her neurological status ( Read more... )