Thunder I love you and miss you kitty!

Goodbye Sweet Kitty

You were such a good cat and I miss you already. Say hi to Gremlin for me.

Kitty has a resistant E. Coli infection

As if things couldn't get any worse for my poor, sweet kitty, she now has an antibiotic resistant e. coli infection. There's only one antibiotic to use against this nasty bug and while it seems to be helping, kitty is very sick and I'm not optimistic about her chances of recovery. I am making sure she is comfortable and have spent most of the day singing the Medicine Buddha Mantra to her. She didn't really care, but it made me feel better!



If you would like to hear what the Medicine Buddha Mantra sounds like, here it is:



The words he's saying (in Tibetan) are: Tayata, Om, bekandzeh, bekandzeh maha-bekandzeh, radza samungateh. Soha.

Basically, it's a prayer for healing.

Feb 24

Kitty is eating again and felt good enough to come out and sit in the sun and have a look out the window. She is still very weak.

Feb 22

Kitty is feeling a little nauseated today and doesn't want to eat much. She still looks pretty happy though!

Feb 21

Kitty is feeling a little weak today, but is still eating good! Messy eater!

Feb 19th

I was going to take kitty in to be put to sleep today, but she had other ideas. She was feeling pretty good and helped me replace the power supply in my computer. Actually she just stuck her nose in there and got hair all over everything. BTW, Thermaltake makes shitty power supplies.

Kitty has kidney failure

Kitty has been very weak and not wanting to eat so into the the vet we went. Blood test results were very bad and kitty is now in kidney failure and is anemic. I knew it was bad news when the vet called first thing in the morning. Because of her other health problems (brain tumor and severe arthritis), I have come to the painful decision to not give her any life extending treatments. The vet told me to take it one day at a time and she how she does.

I can't help but wonder if it was something in the food that destroyed her kidneys. There's just no way to know, expecially considering her age.


Today she's feeling good enough to eat!

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