Stubborn Idealism

Crazy Appetite

Date: Wed 8 March 2006
Time: 8:11 PM EST

Yesterday I made a tuna casserole and ate the whole thing in about six hours.

Today I made shrimp fettuccine alfredo and got full just half way through the first plate. Maybe it's bumping up against yesterday's casserole.

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One Sick Cat

Date: Wed 8 March 2006
Time: 4:31 PM EST

Just got off the phone with the vet about Barney. It's down to one of three possibilities:

• Feline Infectious Peritonitis
• Pancreatitis
• A cancer that they just haven't found yet.

They're going to run some more blood tests later to check for the first two possibilities. They can't do the tests today because they just gave him a blood transfusion.

FIP isn't treatable, so my hopes are on the pancreatitis. Even then, I'll have to feed him through a tube in his neck for about a month, but I really don't mind that as long as I get to keep him.

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Barney Still Sick

Date: Wed 1 March 2006
Time: 9:08 PM EST

Speaking of Barney, I'm taking him in to the vet tomorrow morning to get an x-ray. He still is not eating much, and he has lost a lot of weight. When I pet him, my hand goes bump-bump-bump down his backbone.

I think he might have a piece of chicken bone lodged in his digestive system somewhere along the line. I like to eat chicken wings, and I throw the bones away in the garbage can. Every once in a while, Barney tips over the garbage can to eat the bones. I found the garbage can knocked over just before Barney's behavior changed, but I didn't make the connection until a couple of days ago (he's done it many times in the past with no problems). So hopefully the x-ray will reveal a piece of bone. If it doesn't, I don't know what to do other than watch him wither away.

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