Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Top-of-the-Waves Tuesday...

...it's been a week.

The Husband continues to deal with his father's estate and taking care of his mother's situation. Any one who has been in this situation knows what a time sink that is. I've been holding down the fort at home.

Our cats are both old - Tica is 17 and Sombra will be 17 in a couple of weeks. Tica has been losing weight and is looking like a bag of bones. I had taken her to the vet in May to have a bad toenail fixed. She looked skinny then and the vet said if she lost more weight to bring her back in. She's lost even more weight and now she's hungry 24/7.

I took her in on Friday afternoon and they palpated a mass in her abdomen. They took some blood and urine to check things out. They also managed to do a needle aspiration of the mass for cytology tests. Well, the news came back yesterday and she has lymphoma. Because she's so old, already frail, and gets really stressed when we take her to the vet, we decided to forgo chemotherapy. She's still eating, drinking water, and walking around, although she doesn't have as much energy as before. We're taking it a day at a time - we'll know when it's time to say goodbye.

The weekend was spent watching Tica a bit more closely in between getting some weaving done and a few chores.

I really didn't work on anything else because my energy-level is low. I'm not sleeping well as I'm keeping an ear open in case Tica has any problems. Sombra doesn't seem to mind that I'm waking her up in the middle of the night because she gets petted more often. :)

It sucks that our pets don't live longer. :(
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