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August 10, 2006
Road Food, Cat Update, Home for a Few Days
Well, I'm home now until Monday. Meetings up in Scranton went extremely well, which means that I'll be spending a whole lot of time up there. Next week most likely I'll be there Monday and Wednesday, though I have to pop back to Philly for a Tuesday night meeting.
Meanwhile, Kieffer just got home today from THREE NIGHTS in the kitty hospital! He had such terrible constipation that the vets think there may be something else wrong. Don't know what... all the blood work comes back fine. These problems always start from stress for him, so I am thinking of taking him to a kitty yoga class. I hear there really is cat accupuncture. He needs to meditate. How can you get a cat to meditate??? At least he's home and happy now. His grandmother picked him up this afternoon since I was still in Scranton, and he bounded out of the carrier, devoured a can of cat food, and hung out enjoying all his normal perches all afternoon till I got home at 7. Now he's lying on the floor in happy cat position: belly up, paws in the air, eyes blissfully closed. This is a cat who is happy to be home. You would too, if you'd had as many enemas as he has over the last few days. Is there some way I can put the cat on my health insurance? Maybe I could marry him! He already goes by Kieffer Smith.
Road food wasn't bad at all: eggwhite omlettes with mushroom, tomato, onion and bell pepper and salsa for late breakfast both days, then I introduced Luke to Ruby Tuesday's last night for dinner. I had the salad, he had a salad plus a shrimp dish. All was well.
I'm exhausted, and tomorrow I'm technically taking off from work to work on the packing, though of course I'll end up working half the time anyhow. It was so nice to come home to MR and my fresh MR-made salad. I had the salad with a half cup of cottage cheese, a teaspoon of flax oil, and two teaspoons of Carolina Treet barbacue sauce. Yum!
Posted by april at August 10, 2006 8:32 PM
Comments
I realize this blog is about CR, not your cat... so you can feel free to screen this post and delete it. :-)
My kitty has gone through something similar over the last two years, to the point where she would get so backed up that she wouldn't eat. It ended up being an intestinal motility problem, the muscles of her colon weren't contracting properly. She's now on a medication to regulate smooth muscle contraction and she hasn't had any problems since. You might want to discuss it with your vet and see if there's any long term therapy.
And I totally know what you're saying about wishing you could put the cat on your health insurance. Those vet bills really take a bite!
Posted by: jj at August 11, 2006 9:35 AM
From one cat lover to another--try giving Keifer something oily to prevent constipation and hair balls. My cats like the prepared, flavored hair ball remedy in a tube at WalMart, but they're also happy licking vaseline off of my finger or enjoying a tsp of olive oil every night. Good luck and happy CRing!
Be well,
Sheila/
Cring with Crohns
Posted by: Sheila at August 11, 2006 11:56 AM