Purrs and headbutts
Laura and the Brat Pack
CatWoman wrote:
> People - those Candle Ceremony vibes must have
> been working *overtime*!
>
> For those who didn't see it (I'd just tucked the
> note about Stormy at the end of another post),
> Stormy, my almost 15 year old, started coughing,
> a deep, croupy/bronchial cough, around the first of
> the year. Cats as they age have problems, but this
> guy has more than his share - he had diabetes 2 or
> 3 years ago; and last year had radioactive iodine
> treatment for a thyroid tumor.
>
> We tried antibiotics for a while, and there didn't
> seem to be any change, so we had him x-rayed, and
> found that the center lobe of his lung was shadowed.
>
> So - he went in for a bronchioscopy (a scope on a
> tube is threaded into the lungs, where the lung is
> looked at). The lobe was full of crud. They were
> able to extract some of the cells, but no definite
> diagnosis could be made - but the upshot was that
> there was crud in the lungs that he couldn't get rid
> of.
>
> So - they wanted to go in and remove that lobe. I
> had scheduled the operation for today - the first one
> available for the specialist. Meanwhile, I was giving
> him antibiotics daily, and keeping him in the bathroom
> with warm/damp air.
>
> Dropped him off this morning, figuring I'd be picking
> him up sometime around 6 for a fast ride to the emergency
> clinic to be monitored over night. Had made arrangements
> to take part of the week off to monitor him, and had
> gotten a friend to agree to come with me on the drive
> in case something happened (lung surgery is *really*
> major).
>
> So - I just got a call from the vet - first thought was
> that she'd found he was really FeLV+ and it was really
> lymphoma.
>
> BUT - she said he looked so good that whatever I'm doing
> is *WORKING*! She did NOT want to operate, but to
> continue the warm/damp air and antibiotics, and do a
> re-check in 2-3 weeks!!!
>
> YAHOOOOO!!
>
> Diana
> (whose credit cards are also relieved!)