*sigh*

[acroyear]

Well, the news on the cat ain't good.

She's got a bad pasturella infection in there, but at least the antibiotic she's on, while she doesn't like it, will still be able to treat it.  Which is good 'cause she was a pain to give pills to even before all of this started.  Yes, she likely got it through the broken tooth from the rabbit upstairs.  No, unless there's some reason they get into a bad fight and blood is drawn, its unlikely she'll give it to vivianne (the other cat).

Unfortunately, that's the good news.

The bad news is that she does have the feline equivelant of skin-cancer in her jaw and that's what's been eating it.  This is, yes, serious, but as its not in the lungs (they x-rayed them to be sure) she does stand a good chance for lasting several more years provided we go through treatment.  Treatment is, however, scary expensive - surgery to remove part of the affected jaw, and then some rad treatments to keep the relapse out.  they've appearantly gotten pretty good about preserving things, just as human doctors have.  We're already having to put her on total soft-food diets and so as long as she'll eat it before, she should still eat it after.  Everything else about her is strong, especially her heart, which is always a good sign for recovery.

It we don't treat, its pretty certain that it'll be in the lungs and fatal within 6 months.

I haven't committed to anything except thank you notes to the God and the universe that cyd has a job (and that my job would be understanding about the odd hours i'll have to work on treatment days).  I'll know more after the consultation sometime next week.

*sigh*

for those JMU types, this is the one cat I have that goes back to me and mav being together all those years ago.  she kept the other and the third she gave away soon after I left the 'burg.  So yeah, she's 16 which is already "old" for a cat.

Comments

[dawntreader]

aw, man. :(

i wish it was better news. one day at a time, though, and hope for the best. love to you and to cyd, and to the kitty max. :(

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Dance Master F's cat (Frankie) had similar surgery and came through it fairly well but the tube feeding while he was healing was interesting (I did a few rounds of it ... you need to be very careful about certain things). Of course the Elizabethan collar he had while being tube fed scared the bejeezus out of the other cat.

My thoughts are with all 3 of you.

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, I blanked that we'd have to be tube feeding her...

My, this is going to be interesting... Vivianne is scared witless of her own tail, let alone when she's going to see Max running around with something like that on...

Thanks for the support, sweetie. It's going to be a long couple of months, but hopefully all for the better and she'll be happy and healthy again when it's all over.

The icon is just for what she'll be screaming at us the whole time. *soft smile*

[eac.livejournal.com]

Ouch. :(

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Fortunately(?) the tube you feed with is not on the face so cats who are picky about face interactions (and thus pains about being pilled) aren't a problem with this feeding type. The problem is trying to work full time while feeding the cat every few hours (which is why I fed Frank a few times).

[fiona64.livejournal.com]

I'll keep my fingers crossed that Max's treatments go well.

[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

Oof. I'm glad it's treatable, sorry that it's going to be so rough. Good luck & best wishes!!

[capi.livejournal.com]

~prayers~ for you all......

((( hug )))