{"id":3077,"date":"2011-06-08T06:45:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T22:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2011-06-08T06:45:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T22:45:35","slug":"an-update-on-my-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/an-update-on-my-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on my cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t post about having a sick cat<\/a> without posting an update when I knew more.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend Nougat perked up a bit and was less lethargic, which means that she was even wobblier as she tried to do more. She was eating like a horse – which she usually does to create extra body-heat to compensate for having so little fur.<\/p>\n

Nougat had an anaesthetic and a full body x-ray yesterday. There was nothing nasty found in her spine or hips. Her right inner-ear however is full of yukky stuff that showed up on the x-ray as a white swollen mass behind her eardrum. This is sort of good news, as when there is not an obvious problem in one side like an ear infection, this kind of balance loss is usually caused by something central – often a brain tumour.<\/p>\n

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The treatment is either very strong drugs or getting the eardrum punctured by a specialist who then taks a biopsy and cleans out the yuck. She has been sick on and off with this for eight months – so sick that we did not think she would get through it twice –\u00a0 so we are going to give her time to recover and then probably go for the operation.<\/p>\n

She had a couple of old-cat skin lesions removed at the same time as the x-ray, so has 16 stitches at the moment – eight under her right foreleg and eight just above her tail on her back. We have three different medications to give her – one liquid that must be taken with food once a day, a pill twice a day and another liquid that we gave her for the first time when she returned from the vet. We have another ten days of this one, which has the side-effect of making her foam at the mouth and call up her Cat Mafia friends to take out a contract on her owners…. We also have to wash out her ear with a special ear wash for the next 10 days.<\/p>\n

Thanks to modern veterinary science, as well as a showbag of medications, we also took home a CD with Nougat’s x-rays on it… not sure how I feel about that…in fact I feel almost like I am invading her privacy by putting the image above here…<\/p>\n

We just need to get her through the next few days without splitting her stitches or splattering herself on the tiles. She has already tried to jump up on to a desk, missed her footing and landed flat on her back right where her stitches are. Luckily someone will be with her for the rest of the week. I do not think she will enjoy the collar of shame <\/a>that the vet gave us for her to wear when noone else is around.<\/p>\n

Post number 8 for #blogjune<\/a> 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t post about having a sick cat without posting an update when I knew more. Over the weekend Nougat perked up a bit and was less lethargic, which means that she was even wobblier as she tried to do more. She was eating like a horse – which she usually does to create extra…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogjune-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-ND","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}