Isa's Homestead Happenings and Hangout

[ShrekDawg]

That's decent weather. I guess the cold is coming to you.
Didn't get above 34 today with drizzly snowy mix all day long.

Yeah it was crazy warm today lol and oh gosh that sounds miserable!!!

 

[tripletfeb]

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[Brooks_]

 

[ColtHandorf]

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It can't fix everything. lol

In other news, I hand scrubbed the floor in the mudroom and cleaned most of the house this weekend.

 

[troyer]

I'm fine!

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

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[Kay-T-Hammer]

@TheDawg Ok, now that I can go through it without being an emotional wreck: I brought my cat into his follow up vet appointment. The vet said that he looks much better than he did the time before, and she took him into the back room; he bites, so she needed more helping hands. She came hurrying in not 5 minutes later and told me that something was wrong; he was bleeding from the mouth, and his jaw seemed to be locked. Due to his age, she did not feel comfortable sedating him to see what was wrong, so she gave me 3 options. 1) Bring him home and try out some medicines. 2) Board him at the emergency vets for a few days, which would have run me upwards of $10,000. Or 3) Euthanize him. I completely broke down. Like, he had been doing so well! What could have happened between the time I put him into the crate, and the time they had taken him out!? I chose option 2. And if I had chosen option 3, I would be suicidal right now, and I say this in all seriousness. The emergency vet-tech got all of his information and then some from me while I was crying my eyes out in their waiting room. The vet came out and repeated what his primary told me, and I told her that he was fine that morning. I had his mouth open, so how can it suddenly be locked!? I said multiple times to both vets that this cat is stubborn as all get out, and I had tried to force-feed him a chill-pill before bringing him in, so he was fighting them. His primary did not seem to think that was the case, but the emergency vet seemed to believe me. She sedated him, and his jaw opened no problem! She was able to thoroughly check him, and found a deep, infected laceration under his tongue! She said his URI was well under control, and her concern then was to get him some antibiotics to help the infection. She could not give him sutures, because it would have trapped the infection inside him and would have caused an abscess. So she gave him an antibiotics shot that lasts for 14 days, and smeared a topical opioid onto his neck to help him with his pain. My cat is damned-near his old self again! But it still bothers me so much that I almost chose euthanasia because his primary could not find his problem, and I did not want him to suffer.

In short: My baby is happy, getting better with every passing day, and is eating like a little pig. And I still get to snuggle with him and hear him purring right near my head.

 

[ShrekDawg]

@TheDawg Ok, now that I can go through it without being an emotional wreck: I brought my cat into his follow up vet appointment. The vet said that he looks much better than he did the time before, and she took him into the back room; he bites, so she needed more helping hands. She came hurrying in not 5 minutes later and told me that something was wrong; he was bleeding from the mouth, and his jaw seemed to be locked. Due to his age, she did not feel comfortable sedating him to see what was wrong, so she gave me 3 options. 1) Bring him home and try out some medicines. 2) Board him at the emergency vets for a few days, which would have run me upwards of $10,000. Or 3) Euthanize him. I completely broke down. Like, he had been doing so well! What could have happened between the time I put him into the crate, and the time they had taken him out!? I chose option 2. And if I had chosen option 3, I would be suicidal right now, and I say this in all seriousness. The emergency vet-tech got all of his information and then some from me while I was crying my eyes out in their waiting room. The vet came out and repeated what his primary told me, and I told her that he was fine that morning. I had his mouth open, so how can it suddenly be locked!? I said multiple times to both vets that this cat is stubborn as all get out, and I had tried to force-feed him a chill-pill before bringing him in, so he was fighting them. His primary did not seem to think that was the case, but the emergency vet seemed to believe me. She sedated him, and his jaw opened no problem! She was able to thoroughly check him, and found a deep, infected laceration under his tongue! She said his URI was well under control, and her concern then was to get him some antibiotics to help the infection. She could not give him sutures, because it would have trapped the infection inside him and would have caused an abscess. So she gave him an antibiotics shot that lasts for 14 days, and smeared a topical opioid onto his neck to help him with his pain. My cat is damned-near his old self again! But it still bothers me so much that I almost chose euthanasia because his primary could not find his problem, and I did not want him to suffer.

In short: My baby is happy, getting better with every passing day, and is eating like a little pig. And I still get to snuggle with him and hear him purring right near my head.

Glad he’s doing better!!!

 

[Brooks_]

Maybe I'll bring it in over winter?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Maybe I'll bring it in over winter?

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Is that a tomato!?