Gosh Julie!
I'm so sorry you're going through all this. I hope the doctor has good news for treating your husband. You are all in my thoughts and prayers. It's too bad we don't all live in our on little 'cat neighborhood' so we could help each other out more.
tonya
Julie Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Julie Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Friends,First, let me wish Brenda the best of luck with her yearly checkup!Once again, I ask you all to send healing vibes to my loved ones. My husband was diagnosed with an aneurysm and blood clot in his right leg last week. Further testing found he also has an aneurysm in his abdominal aorta. This is all complicated by the fact that he had a coronary blockage about 18 years ago, so he has to be cleared for surgery by his cardiologist. We've seen lots of doctors and had many, many tests with more to come. Today we meet with a vascular surgeon who has a great reputation to see what kind of new technology he might be a candidate for, if both can be repaired at the same time, etc. As you can imagine, it's been very stressful.On the kitty front, Tommy and Wink (both hyper-t) are not being regulated by their current Tapazole dosage, so as of this morning the dosage has been doubled. I hope this gets them where they need to be; I had wanted to do radioactive iodine treatments on them, but it's about $2500 for both of them and I just can't afford it right now. Coco Bear has lost quite a bit of weight in the last few weeks, and I strongly suspected he might be hyper-thyroid, too, but his bloodwork is pretty good for an old guy with just an elevated white blood cell count. He does have a couple of bad teeth, but seems to still be eating the same amount; we're going to try him on antibiotics for a week and then pull the teeth, so I'm hoping that will resolve his situation, too.My FIV+ cats (Eduardo, Maurice and Brownie) are doing well; Eduardo has taken the turn from being semi-feral to being a hunk o'love with me. It's such a great feeling to see him happy and comfortable instead of trying to dig an escape route out of the house! Maurice is lonely (Brownie is blind and deaf and not much of a playmate) and I have looked for some time for an FIV+ companion for him. Maurice is aggressive and a biter, although interestingly, he does not bother Brownie at all, I guess because Brownie doesn't interact with him. I think I finally have a match; an FIV+ young male named Clyde who is a big happy-go-lucky goofball. He came into my friend Joan's group last week and his temperment seems like it will work with Maurice's. He will be coming home with me when I can devote a little time to getting him integrated.I swear, sometimes everything just sucks! Thanks for listening and please send those healing vibes; I know what they can do!Take care everyone and give the furkids and big smooch from me.Love, Julie
"I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is
to protection by man from the cruelty of man. "
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
by the way its animals are treated."
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
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