Friday, I worked from home and her screaming sessions had definitely increased. We’ll be going on vacation in a couple of weeks and I thought we better get her in to the vet sooner rather than later. So I called and they were able to see her right away, although I knew I wouldn’t be able to stick around until they were finished since I had to beat it to my radiation treatment. Fortunately, Kent works near the vet so he got her on his way home and I made it to radiation easy peasy.
Anyway, they took her blood pressure (first time I’ve seen that done, it was pretty neat), weighed her and oh my goodness, she’s lost three pounds. She’s down to five and a half pounds now; at her heaviest, she weighed 10 pounds. The vet said she suspected kidney disease and high blood pressure, and the blood work supported that.
So now Chloe’s got special (expensive) food—we’re going through the different flavor varieties to figure out which kind she likes the best. She’ll be the only one getting the special canned food, we can separate the boys from her for that. But all three will be on the special kibble, alas (for our wallets). And she’s on a drug for the high blood pressure.
She also had an irregular heart rhythm and the vet offered to have her go see a specialist, but I declined. She’s 20 now, I want to keep her comfortable and enjoying life, but we won’t be going to heroic levels to keep her alive at any cost. We did that with our poor kitty Sammie, and never again.
3 comments:
She's lived to an amazingly old age for a cat. The kidney disease is something we've dealt with for all of our older cats. They have all hated the special food, so we bought small amounts and let them have other things occasionally, because quality of life is important too. I wonder if some of the screaming is because the high blood pressure was giving her the kitty equivalent of a headache? I'm sure you're going to keep her as comfortable as you can.
She's actually loving that pricey food, well some of them. And you may well be right about her having a kitty headache. Here's hoping the blood pressure meds kick in quickly.
Oh, poor Chloe.
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