It’s been a stressful week and a half. Last Wednesday night I had to take the cat to the emergency vet. Twice, in one day, actually. A few weeks ago, he had started straining to pee, and going in and out of his box and constantly licking his nether regions. We were worried but were able to get him into his regular vet the next day, and they were able to get him peeing again and sent him home with meds, and he was fine for like three weeks.
Last Wednesday he started doing the straining thing again and our vet couldn’t get him in, so they recommended we take him to the emergency vet. So we did.
Anyway, they gave him some drugs to relax him but he wouldn’t even try to pee at the ER so they sent us home, where he started straining and going in and out of his box again. An hour or two later, we turned right back around and went back.
Turned out he did have a blockage, so they had to keep him overnight and unblock him, then give him meds and fluids til he was pretty clear. He’d been pretty good with the new wet food (he now has to be on special urinary diet food) until today, when he started leaving little bloody puddles around the house while I was at a movie and Patrick was at home with him. I’ll write a review post about the movie later. So I had to hurry home, and we went back to the emergency vet this evening for a third time.
Unsurprisingly, they remembered us.
Fortunately for my bank account, today we’re not looking blocked, just seems to be a badly inflamed bladder. So they’ve sent us home with kitty NSAIDs and painkillers and now I get to monitor him. Wheeeeeeeee.
Fingers crossed this is the last of the shit and he’ll be good with the drugs and wet food.
Other exciting things – I went with my friends Eduardo and Dolan and Dolan’s new girlfriend Kennedy to a gun range and shot real guns (not just the little shitty rifles they let us shoot once at Y-Camp) for the first time.
Here is Eduardo being armed and fabulous:
It was honestly an interesting and fun experience. Got to shoot 3 rifles and 2 handguns. It was louder than I even thought it would be. I liked the little Glock 9mm best, but the AR-15 was actually pretty fun to shoot if a little terrifying. The place we went was really nice and had a restaurant in it, so after we shot for like 2 hours we got some actually reasonably decent food.
I would never have really seen myself as someone who would go learn how to handle a gun, but unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures.
Last thing is that I redid my battle station (aka my desk) and I’m rather proud of how nice it looks:
Think that pretty much covers the updates for the moment.
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