Current Ramblings
Sunday, October 26, 2003
I had to come home from work to take my cat to the vet today. She's been acting weird all week - lots of using the bathroom where she isn't supposed to, which has never been a problem before. I mean, she's old and senile and she kinda misses on occasion, which is why I keep her box in the bathroom on the tile floor, but we're talking not even in the same room. And today I had been at work for less than an hour when Graham calls me to tell me she's started pissing blood. Scared me shitless. And on a Sunday, who's open? Fortunately, the OSU vet department has an emergency clinic. So I came home, we took her in, and after a few hours in the waiting room we find out that she's likely just got a urinary tract infection. It was an emergency, what with the blood and uncontrollable pissing and all, but fortunately it doesn't seem to be anything life-threatening. The vet also said that she has a heart murmur and lung fibrosis, which is bad, but not unusual in a cat her age. I don't know if I want to worry about having her treated for the heart murmur, not at her age. I love her, but I care more about the quality of her life than the quantity, and I don't want her to live two years longer if those two years have to be spent recovering from painful surgeries and treatments. If she were young it would be different, but she's had a long life and that's just the sort of thing that makes for a quiet, natural death. But it's still not completely over. The vet also found some cells in her urine from the tissue that makes up the bladder walls. Well, more of the cells than normal. He said this could just be the result of the tissue sloughing off because of the infection, but there's a chance she could have a tumor there. And that would be bad. It could be cancerous, and that definitely falls into the category of things I don't want her to have to suffer through. Something like that would definitely mean a choice, and soon, between putting her to sleep and painful therapy. I really hope it's jsut the infection.
So that's my day for you. How was yours? ;)
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