Update time! (Not startingly co-incidental with haven't-passed-out-today, can-sit-upright-without-panting, seem-to-be-thinking-straight time ( Read more... )

Sapphy died last night. We were with her ( Read more... )

I truly, deeply, apologize for alarming people. Including my parents. Trying to update this much this fast... it was either a humor post or not keep you in the know. And yes, I am so deeply immersed in this and out of normal perspective that I truly did not see how not-funny it could be to learn this way ( Read more... )

Read the following statements carefully, then click for the challenge ( Read more... )

TSH - a blood test that checks the level of the "thyroid-stimulating hormone."

Normal TSH = 0.3 - 5.5

My TSH = "less than 0.005"

They couldn't find any.

I said that a few nights ago, and E, who has had much more experience with watching people and pets die than I have, is still shaking his head over it ( Read more... )

Only three days a week, but I've been keeping this up for six weeks now, maybe it's time to share ( Read more... )

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The colors in Sapphy's eyes are separating, green migrating to the outside and yellow to the inside. On her good days, the colors blend back together.

Finally got a full fluid treatment into her Monday morning.

She's been ravenous since then, ravenous and restless, never more than a couple yards away from one of us and almost continuously calling ( Read more... )

No vomiting since Wednesday. She'd doing some drinking on her own. Ate a teaspoon of special high-protein cat food this morning, then just now cleaned all the sour cream off E's fork in the middle of his eating latkes. Sat up and vocally demanded to be petted at one point, which is something that's been coming and going of late ( Read more... )