
Angel here. Yes, I did ask Sahara for her permission to use her site. She groaned then walked away so I took that as a yes. Not an enthusiastic yes, but I do not expect more from her. It has to be hard to share with a new kitty, but I am trying my best to be a good little sister.
Grandma made me a dope bag and I love playing with it. I like to toss it in the air and run for it after it lands. Mom has to help once in a while and show me where it landed, but I must say I do pretty good playing by myself most days.
I heard mom and grandma talking the other day about me being a money pit. I do not know what they mean, but I think they were laughing when they said it. Yes, I have cost my mom loads of money. But guess what, I am feeling SO much better now.
After 2 different trips to the emergency vet, I was on antibiotics for 3 whole weeks. They only found a tiny bit of bacteria in my urine, but since my blood work all came back looking good they diagnosed me with a UTI. They also gave me a few days of Buprenex, a narcotic, each time.
After the antibiotics were done, I went to meet another new vet lady. She is very nice and works with kitties and pee problems. She put me to sleep and took photos of my body. I do not remember much, but I do remember Sahara laughing at me when I got home. I was trying my best to walk, but kept falling down and rolling over. I finally decided to fall asleep and woke up just fine. That was scary though.
Mom told the nice lady that she thought the pain meds were helping my accidents but the antibiotics did not seem to make a difference. She started me on Buprenex twice a day and guess what. I have not had an accident since.
Mom said the x-rays looked good and bad. I do not have any problems with my kidneys or bladder. On the other hand, they found most of my spine and tail bones have fused into long solid pieces. They think it must be another one of my congenital defects. I do so well with walking, they do not think it is causing me any problems.
The nice lady said I had to come back and have a cystocentesis, urine analysis, and a culture/sensitivity. I have no clue what that was, but there I went back to the vet place again. I spent the WHOLE day there. It was not to bad though. The girls who worked there fell in love with me and carried me around with them all day instead of me having to stay in a metal cage. I was very excited to see momma when she arrived.
Against my better judgment, I had to go to the bathroom in the carrier on the way home, because I just could not hold it anymore. I heard Sahara yelling at mom about it and she was quite upset. Maybe mom can buy her another carrier since I made a mess of hers. I do not mind a hand me down. It is nice and large enough for me to curl up and fall asleep.
Good news with the UA, they found no bacteria but a lot of blood. This means I have chronic ideopathic cystitis. My goodness that is a mouth full. They started me on a new drug, I think it is called amitriptyline. Mom said she used it for kooks at the hospital, but I guess it can work for kitties with cystitis. We will see. It takes a long time to work, something like a month or so. In the mean time I am still taking my Buprenex for pain relief.
They also started me on a new urinary diet. It taste very good and I like it a lot. The yummy food is good and the hard food is much easier for me to eat without hardly any teeth left. That is another one of my birth defects I think. I only have 2 canines and 5 or 6 tiny teeth in the front of my mouth. I even think Sahara likes the new food, because she has been eating what I leave behind in my bowl.
I am so grateful for my new mom and all her perseverance. She had tried everything to make me better and was getting frustrated. Thank goodness she has lots of patience or who knows where I would be.....