Blackie has gone. Here is a little site I made for him. There are 4 pages covering the time when he came into our lives until he left this earth.
Thank you all for your support.
http://paularenson.org/blackie/
Thank you very much. I just wanted to correct an impression I inadvertently gave that the first doctor was irresponsible. In fact, it was simply a matter of them not being experts in cardiology as well as this being a rare and difficult disease to diagnose. The message is that, when in doubt...
Thank you Mamanyt1953.
Blackie has been stable after changing hospitals. His new doctor is a cardiologist. The old hospital incorrectly diagnosed and treated him inappropriately. It was also extremely expensive. (About 320,000 yen or 3000 dollars). They diagnosed his ailments as hypertrophic...
Thank you. Here is a video of Blackie shampooing me (before he got sick), but he is now doing this again.
Here he is the other day with a couple of his sisters. And here he is eating, a good appetite again.
Blackie continues to do well 2 weeks after changing doctors and treatment protocol based on a new diagnosis: restrictive cardiomyopathy.
The first doctor mis-diagnosed Blackie's heart condition as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. We owe our veterinarian in our previous town, Dr. Kozue Fujii, much...
Thank you very much. I sent you a note from GoFundMe. It was our first contribution from someone we have not met personally. Appreciate it!!!!!!!
paul@kyoko
Hi.
My name is Paul Arenson and am an American living in Fukuoka, Japan (I have been in Japan for 39 years). My wife and I have 10 rescues. 3 were acquired 8 years ago from Japan Cat Network (Aisa, Willy and Alice). The other 7 (Blackie, Mi-ke, Brownie, Black & White--all siblings--Noami and...