Recent Content by RoxieHeart

Figured I'd pop in and update, hope my struggles can help someone else. He started scaring me again with the crying and the licking so while I've got him scheduled with that cat clinic that's not until June so I took him in. Another aspect of this office I'm not going to miss is the likelihood...

Man I'm glad I stuck to my guns. I'm having to titrate myself by sectioning out the powder (decided I didn't feel like dealing with the office and pharmacy background tells me this is fine) and he's down to 25 mg twice a day. I know it's not his pee cause he isn't licking himself like he used to...

I love how I was talking about a prozac zombie and literally in the same day I scooped him up on my lap and he stayed there and purred and accepted pets for 20 minutes and I cried a lot. Cats really are such amazing creatures I love him so much. ;u; Everything's gonna be okay.

Yeah I was definitely prepared to swap clinics if he did come back infected but I am pleased to say his urinalysis was clean! No blood, no protein, no bacteria, the picture of health this very sweet vet said. She also said that he probably doesn't need his peehole cleaned that often and that the...

Kudos to the husband, Artemis still hasn't peed (albeit idk how useful this sample would be anyway??) so we're probably gonna pack him up and put him in the carrier after his meeting and go together and just ask them to do it. I have no idea why they won't just needle his tummy like all the...

hahaha ok so please let me know if this is as dumb as I think it is. So I have the clean empty litter box with the pellets in it, he didn't even go but he got so weirded out by it he bolted out of the litter box and because he's BEEG he knocked the entire thing over spilling pellets EVERYWHERE...

Still waiting to do the urine test before I let the guard down completely but oh my goodness it is night and day. He lets me pet him again (only while he's lying down and sleepy for now, but this is a big shift from not at all), he's snuggling with his sister again, and he actually gives me...

I'm still very cautious and guarded about getting too relaxed about it, but wow. So the clinic he goes to right now is walk in only and it's literally a dice roll which vet you get. We got this lady I'd never seen before and she actually sat down and listened to us, took notes, really got into...

So they told my husband they aren't specialists (I know that!) and that they're going to pull his info and give it to the head to see if there's anything they could possibly do for him, but otherwise recommended a VCA that's near them. What confuses me is all the vets at the VCA are also DVMs...

Thanks so much for being here and being so supportive. ;u; I keep telling myself when things are better I can contribute to the happier parts of this site but for now it's just too dang painful. I saw a kitten at the petsmart (they house kitties from a foster program out here to help get them...

I'm just, so exhausted. I'm so tired. I'm tired of worrying, tired of crying, tired of having to watch this poor boy suffer. So his urine came back completely clean, they checked everything his thyroid, his kidneys, his blood, his electrolytes, everything. Clean and the picture of health, they...

Lab results came back! I'm taking this poor child off the antibiotics, thank GOODNESS. I've never been so excited about food time to just be able to give him his wet food like "Yeah! That's it! Just your yummy food, that's all you need now." Bloodwork says his kidney and liver are A-OK, and no...

So I get lab results tomorrow but I gotta say it is so relieving to finally talk to someone who isn't just like "Well let's try antibiotics again lol" They shaved a rectangle across his belly for an ultrasound and nothing came up there, so fears of cancer or something life threatening are...

OH right and I can look at the culture paper now, looks like it's Enterococcus to answer your question about if it's staph or not. He did seem to be feeling so much better for a while there, crossing my fingers we can figure out what's causing this.

Got all of his paperwork and the pharmacy refilled his antibiotic course in little individual doses this time since the bottle was being too cumbersome to get a reasonable dose without having to try 10 times. Glad I asked where his normal vet was wanting to refer me to, since even when I first...