Well On The Road To Recovery

Good news on The Old Man: the test results say the thyroid is way down, which means {1} it's under control, and {2} we were right to halve the dosage.*

Since His Manliness is still vomiting from time to time, the vet suggested a two~day respite from the pills; so now I feel vindicated for having skipped Monday night's dose.

Was out of the diet food this morning, so all the kitties got the Mature formula. Later this morning His Old Manliness vomited his breakfast; our grey kitten {aka Our Idiot Son} also vomited, though our other kitty {aka Little Miss Lippy Headbutt} is fine...

It raises the question of whether the freebie Mature food has had something to do with the vomiting ~ even though The Old Man had been two weeks on the Mature formula before the heavy vomiting started... Must check to see if it has a best~before date. At any rate, we will switch them all back to the diet food for now and see what happens.

Poor dear Old Man... I hope they still give out Xma$ bonuses at work this year; if they do, I will start up a Save Mr. Clicky! fund, and put it towards his radiotherapy.

Cats are mysterious thangs, and I've heard that ill cats can sometimes go into spontaneous remission for no discernable reason.** I don't recall offhand any stories about that with respect to hyperthyroid in particular; but the fact that The Old Man's thyroid readings are now so low gives me a wee speck of irrational hope. I'd love to think that this could be just a blip on the screen...

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* The only difficulty with a quarter~pill dosage is that it's almost too tiny to handle ~ the last time he spat it out I nearly overlooked it, and it's not the kind of thing you want lying around for the other cats to find; on the other hand, it's so dissolvable that if I can keep it in his mouth for long enough, there's really nothing solid enough to spit out.

** Well, okay, there's always the possibility that such cases were misdiagnosed in the first place ~ cats are hard to suss out, after all.

Posted by edgar at November 26, 2003 12:25 PM