Busy Weekend
Jan. 18th, 2011 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
etumukutenyakLet's see, where to start?
Friday evening, end of Week Without Son, I finished up taking care of the animals and zoomed off to see the FG. My virus was in full retreat and we, er, celebrated.
Saturday, we eventually made it back to my house, walked the dogs, took our shower, and headed over to my friends' house (K and J) for movie and dinner along with the chance to meet the birds. The birds met and conquered the FG. We now have a picture of us sitting together on the couch and a bird on my head. We are both smiling a lot.
We all watched Inception, a very interesting movie. It kept causing FG to shriek and clutch my knee, which I do not complain about at all. No. Eventually the evening drew to a close, and we headed back to my house to check on the animals one more time. Just as well, because while everyone was running around, I realized that one cat was Not Well at all -- she couldn't lift her head (ventroflexion) and was incoordinated in her walking (ataxia). She was also alarmingly thin and not nearly as substantial as she had been earlier. I'd noticed a weight loss in the past few days, but this seemed accelerated. The ventroflexion and ataxia, however, were brand new signs and worrisome ones at that. I scooped her and we took her to the emergency hospital. Throughout the ride and wait, FG was fabulous. Initial blood tests showed dehydration and hypokalemia, so they kept her along with $1500 of my money as a deposit, and FG took me back to her place.
Sunday AM, while we were waking up, my blackberry rang: one of my techs called to inform me of an emergency. Since I was not on call, I was able to pass this along to the on call vet, and go back to my breakfast. I also got an update on Kedgie, and she was improving already.
I went home to prepare for the Sonny, who arrived after 5 pm. The FG showed later, so we all dined on Chinese food and watched some of the BBC show Merlin, which Sonny discovered at my folks' house on Netflix. After he went to bed, we watched "Everything is Illuminated", which was a fantastic movie. I will have to buy it.
Then I snuck out to follow her back to her place for one more night..
Monday I took him to his church youth group for the MLK Service Day project, and was supposed to pick him up around 6 pm; he called around 4 to say he had a ride home as they were done. The timing was perfect, as he got home and had a snack before the hospital called to update me on Kedgie and confirmed that I could take her home. I dragged Sonny along -- making sure he took his geometry textbook for studying -- and we got our Kedge-Wedge back home. She's still very thin, but not so weak and not ataxic. She's fairly mellow right now, but was hungry this morning and ate well of the wet food. She has a heart murmur, which may or may not be related to the anemia and dehydration, or may be secondary to hyperthyroidism. We're still waiting on labs (U/A and T3), and will need to recheck her on everything in the next few weeks. The cardio workup will need a recheck in 6 months.
Overnight the rain and ice combined to create a hazardous slick of ice all over everything, so the schools closed -- Sonny's geometry test will be held on Friday instead. Now he's studying history and allegedly cleaning his room. I managed to drive to work, but FG was smart and arranged to work at home today instead of going to her office. The Ex also gets to work from home, but somehow that just never gets offered as an option for me.
The FG gave Kedgie permission to sleep next to me. At first, the Kedgie Princess was not having too much of me, but by morning she'd decided she wanted under the covers. The kittens did not dare bother the Kedgie Princess, but Brady was having hissy fits until I finally (1) rubbed my hands on his face, then on her and (2) smacked his butt for hollering at her, which surprised him and distracted him.
Friday evening, end of Week Without Son, I finished up taking care of the animals and zoomed off to see the FG. My virus was in full retreat and we, er, celebrated.
Saturday, we eventually made it back to my house, walked the dogs, took our shower, and headed over to my friends' house (K and J) for movie and dinner along with the chance to meet the birds. The birds met and conquered the FG. We now have a picture of us sitting together on the couch and a bird on my head. We are both smiling a lot.
We all watched Inception, a very interesting movie. It kept causing FG to shriek and clutch my knee, which I do not complain about at all. No. Eventually the evening drew to a close, and we headed back to my house to check on the animals one more time. Just as well, because while everyone was running around, I realized that one cat was Not Well at all -- she couldn't lift her head (ventroflexion) and was incoordinated in her walking (ataxia). She was also alarmingly thin and not nearly as substantial as she had been earlier. I'd noticed a weight loss in the past few days, but this seemed accelerated. The ventroflexion and ataxia, however, were brand new signs and worrisome ones at that. I scooped her and we took her to the emergency hospital. Throughout the ride and wait, FG was fabulous. Initial blood tests showed dehydration and hypokalemia, so they kept her along with $1500 of my money as a deposit, and FG took me back to her place.
Sunday AM, while we were waking up, my blackberry rang: one of my techs called to inform me of an emergency. Since I was not on call, I was able to pass this along to the on call vet, and go back to my breakfast. I also got an update on Kedgie, and she was improving already.
I went home to prepare for the Sonny, who arrived after 5 pm. The FG showed later, so we all dined on Chinese food and watched some of the BBC show Merlin, which Sonny discovered at my folks' house on Netflix. After he went to bed, we watched "Everything is Illuminated", which was a fantastic movie. I will have to buy it.
Then I snuck out to follow her back to her place for one more night..
Monday I took him to his church youth group for the MLK Service Day project, and was supposed to pick him up around 6 pm; he called around 4 to say he had a ride home as they were done. The timing was perfect, as he got home and had a snack before the hospital called to update me on Kedgie and confirmed that I could take her home. I dragged Sonny along -- making sure he took his geometry textbook for studying -- and we got our Kedge-Wedge back home. She's still very thin, but not so weak and not ataxic. She's fairly mellow right now, but was hungry this morning and ate well of the wet food. She has a heart murmur, which may or may not be related to the anemia and dehydration, or may be secondary to hyperthyroidism. We're still waiting on labs (U/A and T3), and will need to recheck her on everything in the next few weeks. The cardio workup will need a recheck in 6 months.
Overnight the rain and ice combined to create a hazardous slick of ice all over everything, so the schools closed -- Sonny's geometry test will be held on Friday instead. Now he's studying history and allegedly cleaning his room. I managed to drive to work, but FG was smart and arranged to work at home today instead of going to her office. The Ex also gets to work from home, but somehow that just never gets offered as an option for me.
The FG gave Kedgie permission to sleep next to me. At first, the Kedgie Princess was not having too much of me, but by morning she'd decided she wanted under the covers. The kittens did not dare bother the Kedgie Princess, but Brady was having hissy fits until I finally (1) rubbed my hands on his face, then on her and (2) smacked his butt for hollering at her, which surprised him and distracted him.
