Well, that was fun

[mousme]

So, one very expensive vet visit later, we are home.

There was Dramah. Gretzky does NOT like going to the vet, and she does NOT like the thermometer and she very much DOES NOT LIKE needles. She spent half the time with her head buried in my armpit, purring very very loudly, and the other half trying to escape by clawing her way up my arm and over my shoulders.

It appears has the same upper respiratory crap she had last year right around this time. Apparently she has a knack for getting sick in the winter, same as everyone else.

Also, it's time for Round 2 of flea season. Flea treatments are not cheap. Egads.

As an added bonus, she's also managed to get her cornea inflamed with... something. We're not sure what. The vet put some radioactive-looking goop in her eye (it's not really radioactive, more like phosphorescent, but it LOOKED cool and glowed in the dark!) and was able to determine that at least there was no ulcer present on her cornea. So, uh, that's a sort of win. She does have to have eyedrops in three times a day. Joy.

We're doing more bloodwork to make sure her kidneys and thyroid are doing what they're supposed to, since she's lost over a pound in the last year. She's down to nearly 9lbs, poor girl. Let's remember that when I first got her six years ago she weighed nearly 15lbs. So she's technically at a "healthy" weight, but still. Not good.

I had to rescue the vet tech when they tried to take blood. Gretzky decided that being held by a stranger and poked with a needle was Not On™, and yowled and flailed and scratched and writhed and was generally uncooperative until it was decided that they should let me hold her after all. I offered, and they were all "no no, we've got it, we're professionals," until the cat turned into a demon. She was good as gold when I held her. I was amused, though it's probably not nice of me. ;)

And that's that. Follow-up in two weeks' time.

Comments

[longpig.livejournal.com]

Poor little kitty... I hope she'll be on the mend now!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think she'll be okay. I was certainly expecting much worse news from the vet than what I got. So, fingers crossed!

[brigidmn.livejournal.com]

poor Gretzky. Hope she feels better soon.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I hope so too. Last year she bounced back with few problems, so I'm hoping it'll prove to be the case again this time.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Diva hates going to the vet, but she just hunkers down and acts miserable. Except when the thermometer goes in - then she yells in a very violated way.

Minou, however, seems to REALLY LIKE the thermometer.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

That's... just wrong. :P

[ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that is nothing too major! Hopefully Gretzky will be back to her usual self in no time.

My vet actually seems to be afraid of animals (yeah... not sure how he got into veterinary medicine) so I hold my cats as a matter of course. I used to volunteer at a vet clinic so I picked up a few pointers for distracting upset cats from that. Comes in handy with Apricot. Deirdre is an ostrich and just goes limp so she's not much of a problem at the vets', really. ^-^

[mousme.livejournal.com]

A vet who's afraid of animals? Wow. There's a short story in there for sure.

[raven-albion.livejournal.com]

My first job was a vet tech. You learn pretty fast that if the owner says "just let me hold the cat" there is a good reason why and you should just say "Yes that sounds like a great idea". You can always step in later if it turns out the owner can't manage said cat.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.

Gretzky is a sweetheart almost all the time. She likes people, she likes pats, but she associates the vet's office with trauma, and the only way she feels safe is if she shoves her head in my armpit so that she can't see what's happening. She feels safe in Mummy's arms. Kind of the cat equivalent of sticking one's fingers in one's ears and singing LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

The vet tech was holding her so that she was facing the vet and had to watch the needle coming at her. Then they tried wrapping her in a towel, and that didn't work either.

*shrug*

You'd think they'd be used to it by now: I always end up holding her when we're there.

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

kitteh on teh mend!

[serenitylioness.livejournal.com]

Roars and rumbles to her meows and purrs.

[tcaptain.livejournal.com]

Sending good thoughts(tm) Gretzky's way!

Sick kitties are teh suck.


The sick...not teh kitties.

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, it looks like things are heading towards a positive conclusion! Here's hoping.

[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

I hope I never have to give my cats eye drops. There is no way they will let me hold on to them and simultaneously be still long enough for that to happen.

I'm glad she's OK.