Thankful Thursday - For Shell 03/10/2011
Hi Furriends, Lucky Here! Have you met Shell? Shell is very special little kitty who has stolen our hearts, and many of the hearts around the Blogosphere. When she got at her meowmy's house, she was so malnourished that her skin would literally fall off her body with the lightest scratch. Her mouth had huge rodent ulcers due to severe Stomatitis - to a point that she couldn't keep her tongue inside her mouth... She had a bad URI, Herpes virus... She was peeing blood which the V-E-T thought was due to parasites... Fleas, hookworms... But she can't be treated for that either because she was too weak then. You can know about everything she is facing on the post about her first vet visit, by clicking here. (Tell meowmy to get a box of tissues... She will need it...) Even faced with all these hurdles, her meowmy saw her will to live - Shell was telling her, showing her she wanted to stay... and since the day her meowmy chose to fight with her, she has let that will shine through everyday, every minute! Shell's recovery has been remarkable, in a very short period of time. The little kitty that was hiding inside of her cage is no more - Shell is jumping everywhere, including on a 7feet high window sill! She is eating, started gaining weight, and her tongue no longer hangs out of her mouth. Her wounds on her skin are healing. The ulcers in her mouth, even though they haven't improved a lot, have decreased in size. She even started eating dry food! She is cuddly, sweet, playful and described as having the energizer bunny inside of her - she never stops and demands love and attention (which she has pleeeenty!) Yesterday she started her stomatitis treatment with the same clinic Bugsy goes to here in Dallas - I am sure if anybody can fix her mouth, they can! So, today's post if for Shell. We are thankful her meowmy rescued her... Thankful she saw her will to fight a good fight to live, thankful for her to come into our lives making our days brighter and happier, and most of all, thankful that she is getting better everyday. Thankful that she will never again go without food, without love, or a warm bed to sleep on. Thankful that so many of us, from everywhere love this little girl, without even having set eyes on her, and are helping her to get the treatments she will need to win this battle. When it comes to Shell, we are just thankful for so many things! Shell, this Thankful Thursday is for you <3  ... thankful that she will never go without food in her life again...  ... thankful that she will always have a bed, and a place to feel safe...  ... thankful that she came into our lives (Gosh, isn't she adorable?)...  ... thankful that now she can jump onto places...  ... thankful that she will never go without love...  ... thankful that she is doing so much better already!... 8 Comments Bugsy- Day 120, purring for tootsie poopie! 02/10/2011
 Hi Furriends, Bugsy here! You read it right! Today marks 120 days that we are fighting my diarrhea... Can you believe it? 120 days! Whew! That is a lot of soft poop right there! But there are some good news, and I am here to ask you to send some good, special, extra strong purrs my way these next couple of days furriends, because I will need all the vibes I can get! For the last week my V-E-T has had me take this thing called DiaGel, a natural gel for diarrhea. I was going to start a new steroid treatment last week, but an online furriend of meowmy from The Cat Site told her about DiaGel, and meowmy discussed with the V-E-T. He said it was good for accute diarrhea and he was almost sure it wouldn't work for me, but nonetheless it was worth trying it because if it did work, it would spare me from steroids... DiaGel is usually used in a single dose (and it is very expensive too, $12 a dose!), and sometimes it is used for up to 5 days... The V-E-T decided to do a 7-day course with me, twice a day. Well, lo and behold, it worked! For the last 4-5 days or so, I have had formed poop! Formed poop furriends! Wow!!! The thing is, my last dose was tonight, and nobody knows what is going to happen... I really need to hold my own without Diagel so I don't need the steroids... Please, please furriends, purr hard for me! Purr really hard for tootsie poopie from now on! On another note, I am also off of my Stomatitis medication until March when I will have another liver panel to check if my ALT levels have returned to normal. My gums are starting to get bad, so a dental might be in order soon... I don't want that :( After March I will go back into the medication and will run another test after a while to see if that medication affects my liver too - if it does (the V-E-T doubts it, but meowmy wants to be on the safe side), meowmy says she might talk to my dentist about surgery... We will see... I hope not. Anyways furriends, I will leave you here so you can start purring! Purr for tootsie poopsie! ooommmmm Thank you furriends, Bugsy Thankful Thursday - for Gracie! 02/03/2011
Hi Furriends, Bugsy here! Today is Thankful Thursday, so I wanted to make a special post about my bootiful Coogar - Miss Gracie! I am SO thankful she is here with us! Furriends, I don't know what it is about her... I but I think I am in love... truly, madly, deeply in love with her! I know she is much older than me... But hey, if Ashton and Demi are still going strong after all this time.... why not Bugsy and Gracie? Unfortunately she refuses my advances and hisses and hisses whenever I get close... But you know what they say about opposites attracting... I don't know furriends,but I think all this anger might have a touch of love behind it! What do you think? Should I keep going, or just give up on loving my special cougar? Look how beautiful she has become!    Thankful for my very own Mini-me! Bugsy 01/06/2011
Hi Furriends, Bugsy Here! Guess what? Auntie Kelly got me my very own mini-me! Doesn't he look just like me? Ok, he's got the silly hat and all and doesn't feature my oh-so striking blue eyes (eh-he), but hey, I think she did a very good job! What do you think, does he look like me?   So, since today is Thankful Thursday, I am thankful for my mini-me, and also thankful Gracie is doing so great! She is eating well and seems to not be in pain. I am eating all my food too, and no longer losing weight, which is great! Tomorrow Gracie goes back to the V-E-T for an injection, and Saturday she gets the final one. Now if I only get my digestion problem straighten out.... then I will be very very thankful! Hopefully soon furriends! It's been long enough, whew!   Thankful Thursday for Warm and Cozy Blankie! 09/30/2010
 Lucky enjoying her new blankie Oh this is surely a Thankful Thursday! Look what we got in the mail - our very own Blankie meowmy won at the auction in memory of Sweet Coco made by Peggy Kitty Blankies! It is so soft, cozy and pretty! Meowmy loved it too! She says it is her favorite color, and it fits her decor purrfectly..... Right, right meowmy... Don't you go getting funneh ideas... you see, the blankie is kitteh sized!  Bugsy says hum hum soft!  Oh,and before we go, we wanted to tell you somefing really cool about these blankies - when you buy them, all the proceeds go to help a kitty in need from the Cat Blogosphere.... Now, how neat is dat? Thankful Thursday 03/25/2010
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!  Thankful Thursday - Update on Hope 03/04/2010
Hi, Meowmy Here! Today our Thankful Thursday is dedicated to our little Hope! I have been waiting to post an update until I had definite good news... Last Thursday I went out of town 5am, and I was VERY scared... Frankly, I was scared I was coming back and she would be in a bad bad shape, and God forbid I don't know what was going to happen... (this was 2 days after the vet visit). Her appetite was just not there at all, and in the morning I left, her belly was really swollen, felt like she had a lot of gas... I couldn't spend a lot of time with her, to make her eat, as I had a plane to catch. There was not vet to leave her with. All I could do was pray she ate. I did make sure she ate at least a little bit... The day before I believe she had her breakfast, but not her dinner, or had 1/2 of it. As soon as I arrived in Vegas for a job interview, I called my vet, and I swear, I have no Idea how I pulled that interview off - I was frantic... Crying like a baby.... But I spoke to the vet assistant, and she calmed me down, and assured me she should be fine. All the while, I was PM'ing a member from TCS for instructions on what to buy for force feeding her in case she hadn't eaten breakfast and dinner... Got home, went to the pharmacy, got the baby food, syringe... Anyways....... THANK GOD - she had eaten her breakfast!!! Not her dinner (I had left in the wet food auto feeder). So I made some fresh one and she ate 1/2 of it and then came back for some baby food... Now as of yesterday I can say that she is finally getting back on track as far as her appetite goes. She is finally licking her plate clean again. It takes her several trips, and she doesn't do it at once anymore like she did before... A lot of times she turns her nose and I need to pick her up and bring her back to her food, but nonetheless, she is eating the whole thing. I know it is just a matter of time before she is completely back to normal. She is now back on ZiwiPeak exclusively, which will break my bank to feed her, but at least I know that she is getting the best food she can possibly get, and will not get sick from it... And after this scare.... I Tell you that is PRICELESS.... It was SO scary having her not eating, with an inflame bowel, and a diarrhea on and off for over 20 days... My poor sweet little baby My vet told me to give her between 5-10 days of metronidazole ... Yesterday she had her last dose; I gave her 8 days, which is the advised for giardia - this way I covered all basis... He said that he felt the way her bowels were inflamed she was probably going to need more that 5 days anyways... I do not want to risk it. Anyways, she is doing ALL better, playing, running around, happy, cute, trouble maker sweet little girl that I came to love so very very very very very very much! Thank you all so much for your support and vibes and purrs! Here are a couple of new pictures of my little trouble maker!    Meowmy betrayed me so badly, I am having a very hard time soulseaching for forgiveness! First she served me a last meal and locked me at the room at night with no food and no water for a looooooooong time you guys! Then in the morning, when I was SO hungry, she overdid herself in the betrayal department: She shook a bag of treats, and instead of giving some, locked me up in the carried and took me to the VET! And this was not the regular vet.... They put me in the gas thing, gave me injections, put a tube in my throat... I am telling you... this is the ultimate betrayal... Be aware of the bag of treats you guys - they are not always what they seem to be! Hi, Mom, here! I am so sorry, sweetheart! Mommy loves you so much, and yes, I feel very very bad for doing this to you, but you HAD to go to the doctor... It is the only way to get better... You got to trust mommy, ok? Alright folks- here is the update: I had the BEST of news today!!!!!! Bugsy responded amazingly well to his treatment, AND DOES not need extractions (at the moment, anyways!) His gums went from a horrible Stomatitis level, to a border line Stomatitis/bad Gingivitis!!! Don't take me wrong, he DOES have stomatitis, and will have it for the rest of his life, but the inflammation is WAY, WAY down.... The goal of this treatment is to put him in remission - there is no cure for stomatitis as of yet... But this is a revolutionary and unique treatment that seeks to put him in remission for life, or while in treatment... It has great success. There are no lesions around his throat, no lesions on the roof of his mouth, and the outside of one side of his mouth is already PINK! He just needs to take his meds once a day as we have been doing, and we will be going for a follow up visit in three months! I am IN SHOCK! This is THE BEST thing EVER!!!!!!! No surgery for him... No pain killers... He is already eating.... His Resorptive lesions do not have nerves exposed, so he does not needs to have extractions right now It is ALL fantastic news!!!!! Here are the pictures of his way better mouth!   I am a 1000% believer in this treatment! I got there blind, with my heart on my throat, expecting the worst... Then They handed me the camera, and the doctor came down to tell me all the good news... I could not believe it! He went from a Stomatitis level 2.3, to a level 1! Level ONE!!!!!! So today he didn't even need the steroid shots they first gave him (local, inside the lesions) the healing was so good, they could forgo that! , or desensitizing treatments for his resorptive lesions, as the nerves are not exposed (finally could take a good look at that)- All they had to do was some extra cleaning, as they were able to do it deeper this time due to less inflammation !!! And he is as good as new!!! I could not believe when I saw the pictures... I was assured by his dentist today that his level of pain is minimal now While before it was awful! I can not tell you how happy I am today... Just a BIG HUGE relief! HUGE! Thankful Thursday 02/11/2010
We kitties are thankful that we have a fluffy bed to sleep and cuddle with meowmy, and that she wakes up petting us every single morning... Most importantly, we are also thankful that she doesn't take too long to wake up and serve our food. Hi, meowmy here! Thank you babies! I am in turn so thankful that I have your three sweet little faces to wake up for every morning! There is no better alarm clock in the world! (please forgive the quality of the movie, it was taken from my phone, without a room light) | Our cat blog Translate this page
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