Happy Cat Family

Hi, Bugsy Here!
I am super thankful that all I got was knock out drunk for a little while and shaved on a few spots... Ok, it was not fun, but It could be way worst!
But what I am really really thankful is that my sissy Lucky is back home, and she is ok... I am watching her closely, as you can see on the picture... She is having a little hard time, and today meowmy had a conversation with our doctor about her... Since Hope had to take her shots anyways, meowmy took the opportunity...
There was a concern raised by my other vet, during the dental procedure yesterday, about her being very congested and coughing... and a very ugly word called FIV was brought up (since she had had cough issues in the past, and was congested at the procedure)... In the end it was all clear, and sissy Lucky will be ok - here is what happened: 
This morning she had a coughing fit after meowmy gave her the medicine, and she did sound very very congested, as though she had a lot of fluids... 
The thing is though, she is not coughing on normal circumstances, or sneezing, or showing any symptoms of congestion whatsoever... 
Our doctor (Santa Claus) looked at her records and chest x-rays from her last visit, from the time she was there for a cough, and there was no signs of fluids or anything of concern. He said that the congestion was probably due to excess of salivation due to stress. 
He said the cough I heard today was in line with her aspirating some of the medication, plus having the tube down the throat during general anesthesia can do that to some cats...
Basically... not to worry, unless she starts showing symptoms... 
Whew!
So, yes, Bugsy here, super duper ultra thankful this Thursday!

Lucky is Home :clap::clap::clap:
She made it like a champ, and got home straight to her plate of food - so much for worrying about her not eating! :lol3:
They were able to remove the excess teeth instead of cutting her gum, making a much less painful procedure and recovery for her :clap: 
I am not sure of everything else they did on her teeth... I did not get her chart or the bill today, as it was getting late, and they said they will send it to me on the mail. I am curious to read the complete report though - looking at her mouth it looks like they did more than only her back teeth. 
They gave her a shot of pain killers, so she is kind of loopy right now, but not in pain... She also has some stuff on her teeth, which looks like cement or something... 
She will be on clindrops for the next 10 days and pain killers for the next few days, but aside from that, she will be just fine!
Whew, I am glad it is all over now! :clap::clap::clap:
I am very happy to have this problem solved now... It was a "simple" solution, but that could be a big big problem if left untreated... In looking back, Lucky had stopped eating a couple of times... Both times I thought she was being finicky, or just growing tired of her food... Thank goodness I took her to this vet, who examined her mouth and noticed the holes on the back of her mouth. The poor thing was not eating because she was in pain. 
Had I not caught this, she could ended up very very sick... Who knows what could have happened... I am very very VERY grateful to have this behind us... My baby will have a healthy mouth and be out of pain now...
Thank you all who donated and made this possible... From the bottom of our hearts... :hugs:
Now to wrap it up take miss Hope for her shots tomorrow, and Pray for this run of vet trips and scares to be over for a long long long long LONG while! :vibes::vibes::vibes::vibes::vibes::vibes::vibes::vibes:

The vibes, purrs and prayers worked... A miracle! 
Hi, Meowmy here!
I received the BEST call from the vet I could ever receive: "Carolina, it turned out Bugsy didn't need the surgery after all, the surgeon diagnosed that lump as a responsive tissue, and he believes it should resolve on its own"
They put him under the anesthesia, and looked at him thoroughly - he is sporting a big shave on his belly, and those sad sad post anesthesia eyes, but he is on the clear for now.
If the lump doesn't go away on its own, then we do need to go back...
Before he had been seen by the Chief Surgeon Vet Tech; who scheduled the surgery... The surgeon thinks this is the result of a fight, a scratch, or him bumping his belly somewhere, getting hurt somehow. It is not an abscess, they called it "Responsive Tissue".
I am just relieved beyond words...
I feel bad that he went hungry last night and that he was put through anesthesia, but God, thank GOD 1000X over that my baby is OK, and that this scare is over...
He is sooooooo clingy right now... Poor baby, peed all over himself on his carrier, and keeps calling me all the time...
Thank God... This is Not Cancer, he did not have to be cut open ... Thank God, thank God, thank God!

Now I just need to worry about Lucky, who has her oral surgery tomorrow... 
But hers I know that, even though it will be painful, it will be done to fix a problem... and not like My Bugsy's... where I was soooo scared of having to deal with something very serious like Cancer...
I am just beyond relieved that I don't have this worry anymore. I can hug him and not worry about losing him... It's a wonderful feeling...
Thank you for all the prayers and purrs... I know they helped. 

Hi, Lucky here!
Last night meowmy locked us all in the bedroom... We had lots of fun, but no food, and no water ALL NIGHT LONG! There was not much space to run either, but meowmy sure made it was fun, as she brought plenty of toys, and put the turboscratcher right on her bed to play with us... 
I was thinking... Somehow every time we go hungry all night Bugsy disappear in the morning... I am not sure exactly why, but I am starting to think I will never go hungry. I will boycott hunger. I will do an eating strike on the hunger strike!
Bugsy, Bugsy, where are you?
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Hi, Meowmy here!
Just dropped off my baby at the vet for his surgery... It broke my heart... He was crying and crying soooo much :(. 
I got him some baby clothes - sleepers and onesies to use instead of the e-collars... It is much more comfortable than the e-collar, and the last thing I want is to have my baby even more uncomfortable. 
I want to thank everybody who stopped by to lend me a shoulder for support... You have no idea how much I needed that... Thank you my friends form the Cat Blogosphere... All of you have been a lifesaver through this ordeal.
Thanks to everybody who donated money to help with these surgeries... Every bit helps a LOT, and takes a tremendous weight out of my back... THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. 
I just don't know how to thank you enough...
Please say a little prayer for my boy today...

My Grandpa was a very interesting man... Very different by any standard; had great stories, who knows what was true and what was a creation of his great mind!
He had met the devil in person, and had a direct telephone line with Jesus Christ... Who has that? Ah.... He did!
He had a degree in engineering, but was an autodidact in Chemistry, and that was his passion until he became blind... He was Chemistry Professor in the University until well into his 80s.
He built schools to teach the kids in his farm, and paid the teachers out of his pocket... To their parents, he taught them different trades. He always helped the others, built homes, built schools... He was a true altruist.
But my grandfather also lived in the moment. That man lived his life to the fullest... He lived in many places, and had many children. 13 officially. They were all borne in different zipcodes, it seems.
With my grandmother, he had 10. She died young, of meningitis... She was, he says, the love of his life... He then remarried and had 2 more - they are probably around 28 and 25 years old... And got divorced and married his third wife, fifty years younger than him, and had his last daughter when he was 78 - she is now 17... Manuella
His moto was the old cliche that you can only regret the things you don't do... And that if you feel in your heart that you should do something, then do it - always take the risk, err to the do, and not to the don't.
My grandpa was a teacher... Not of chemisty, physics, math... But of life... We would talk for hours on no end, and he taught me many great things, that will be with me to the day I die...
He died peacefully in his favorite place in the world - his beach house... He was not in pain, had no tubes, was not sick... He just took a deep breath, and it was his last... He was 95.
Grandpa, I am sorry I haven't seen you in a while... But one day we will seat together again, and this time I will be the one telling you all my stories...
Grandpa, watch over us, and continue to teach us, ok? You will never be forgotten, you were loved and admired, and you marked generations and generations to come... Rest in Peace Miguel...
Enjoy, you now can see again, isn't that wonderful?

This past week has been very difficult for meowmy...
Sissy Lucky stopped eating, and then meowmy found a mass on Bugsy's belly. ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Being unemployed, and barely having anything in her wallet for food and bills for the next couple of weeks, this was no piece of cake for her... Meowmy was very very sad, and didn't know what to do... She spent a lot of time on bed, didn't really wake up, for anything, just to give us food and change our litter box... We sure did give her lots of purrs and headbutts, but we never seen her so sad...
She does have a credit on Bugsy's Dentist office, which is also an animal hospital, and had to make a very difficult decision - to cheat on Bugsy's dental stomatitis treatment (Bugsy won't need this credit for a couple/few months), and decide if these things they are going through right now are indeed an emergency "worthy" of touching that $$$.
They do have insurance, so that money would go towards paying the deductible and some of the bill, and would be replaced ASAP, when the insurance check was received...
Anyways, The vet was only available on Saturday, but the vet tech, who is VERY good, told me to bring them both in to look at them, he would help me to make a decision.
First Lucky - She has a cross bite, and basically her bottom teeth are punching holes through her top gum. So she stopped eating because it was too painful to do so... poor baby! What they will do is they will file/sand and cauterize off the excess gum on the top of her mouth, so that there is enough space to close her mouth without her teeth punching holes on her gum. Her surgery is scheduled for the 23rd... Meowmy is super worried, as she only eats dry food, and she will need to eat stinky goodness for about a week... She hates it! Meowmy is worried about her not eating... Right now she is on Pain medication 2x/day so that she can eat comfortably. 
Lucky's surgery is not going to be covered by Insurance, as it is a dental procedure, and Insurance does not cover dental...

Anyways... Now the really worrisome news...

Bugsy has a tumor. It is not an abscess, it is a tumor... He said it needs to come out, as it is attached to the muscle, and it has a very nonuniform shape; it has a lot of edges, and it is under the skin, not on the skin. So, he is schedule to have surgery on the 22nd. Meowmy is freaking out to no end.
WHY????? WHY this has to happen to our boy? Our poor sweet boy, sooo sweet, the sweetest of the kitties...
He told meowmy to not freak out, that the doctor will make a small incision, and when he takes it out, he will decide by the shape of it if it needs to go to biopsy of not. We do think we would feel better if it goes to the biopsy regardless... We would not like to wonder about something like that... 
We just hope, pray and hope it is not the "C-word"... We don't know what we would do...
It is on his belly, close to his chest, about an inch in size. We do notice that he doesn't like when we touch it... Which is kind of strange to us... 
So, yes... in the end they did end up being emergencies, and Bugsy still needs to carry on his stomatitis treatment, of course... That is a lot of bills, but most of all, a lot of worries for meowmy... We just want my babies healthy... We just want next week to come, and go, and never to come back again... 
Please , please send vibes and prayers to our babies, our boy and girl... they are what keep meowmy going every morning... They are all meowmy's family here in the US... They are furry, but are her kids... 


Pee Ess: Thank you so much ML and KC for coming to our rescue... You have no idea how much that means to us...

Hi, Lucky here!
I knew it! Remember when meowmy had the brilliant (not) idea to let us experience the great newness of our first snow? Well... we had been inside only for a long time, so not treated for fleas or anything... Fast forward a few weeks and ta-da! What do we have? FLEAS! Meowmy caught one flea on me! It took me a whole five minutes in a frigid frozen outside experiencing the great wet snow.... and what am I left with? Fleas and a run of stinky Revolution! What's worst, I am sure that flea has been on me for quite a few days... Oh boy!
Has anybody ever told you we have atomic bugs in Texas? Oh yeah, psss they could care less about a feet and half of snow! 
By the way, Here is what my friend Simon the cat has to say about Snow - I tend to agree with him now - completely senseless!

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Hi, Lucky here!
I don't know about you kitties, but I just LOVE a good box! Actually, I love any box... Big, small, new, old... They are my favorite thing, and the best place to hang out!
This one below is my favorite! Meowmy put it right next to her computer, so get to spend a lot of time together! It is big, and to make it extra special she put a bunch of tissue paper on the bottom... so cozy! LOVE IT!

We like boxes so much, meowmy even built a fort for us! We have been using it for months and months, and it still stands strong! So much fun to play hide and seek, jump on it, or just chill on it!
What about you, do you like boxes too? Do you have a box fort?
Have a happy weekend Everybody!

Pee ess: Hope Update: She is doing much much better, eating playing, and getting to be her happy little trouble maker she used to be! She did have a loose stool yesterday (yucky, sorry folks), so she is not all better yet, but meowmy is diligently working on rebuilding her intestinal flora with Bene-Bac. She still has to sprinkle a little dust of Fortiflora over the food just for flavor, but not much... Meowmy doesn't like it - she says it has yucky stuff in it... Anyways... At least she doesn't have the bad runs anymore (the loose stools happened only once too), and she is eating normally again! Oh, that is the part meowmy is the most relieved about! 
Meowmy will continue to keep her on Bene-Bac as long as needed, and she will be visiting the vet soon, as she needs to take her shots before the 24th. 
Please keep the purrs coming for our sissy Hope... Thank you so much! <3

Good Friday Everybody! Bugsy Here!
All is well here in Happy Cat Family Paradise! Hope continues to get better every day, eating more and more each meal... She is still addicted to that Fortiflora thing, and meowmy is concerned about weaning her out of it in a couple of days... Oh Boy... That little girl trained meowmy well... For Some reason humans like to think they are the smart ones... yeah, right!
By the way, did you guys notice I now have a yellow beard??? Yep, before meowmy bought our Klaw Kontrol bag, let's just say she just had a very bad aim... Well, it is not all her fault really, she says I am a very BIG and STRONG boy! Anyways, as you can see, say good bye to my majestic, sparkly white mane, and say hello to my funky yellow Hollywood-style beard!
Well, I'll have this look for a little while - meowmy is trying to figure out a way to get rid of the stain... Do you guys know a way to remove tough stains from white hair? Meowmy already tried ACV and Rubbing Alcohol (the vet told meowmy about the alcohol), but neither really worked... Meowmy is looking for a really good shampoo, if you guys know of something, drop her a note!

Oh, one more thing! We found this really funny kitty, who likes to make a perch out of his meowmy's head! Can you believe it? Funny kitty!