Stacy Horn

Finney woke me up by jumping on the comforter I was sleeping in and peeing on it. He still has a fever, which should have cleared by now. I’m trying not to panic. It could be that we just need to give him a different antibiotic.

I’m waiting for 8:30, when I can call the vet, but I’m supposed to be at the Census at 8, which is not going to happen. I already missed two days. I dread calling them to say I won’t be there yet again, due to a cat (few people understand things like this).

It’s not a matter of life and death, not yet anyway, but he is clearly suffering and I have to do everything I can to alleviate that for him.

UPDATE: The people at the Census were understanding. For the record, every time I’ve called they’ve been very nice and very understanding and told me not to worry and to take care of my cat.

Always a sign of a sick cat–sleeping by (and a little bit in) the water bowl. Isn’t this such a sad sight? That said, he seems a tiny tiny bit better. Yesterday at this time he was going in and out of the litterbox every minute it seemed.

I’m looking forward to watching To Kill a Mockingbird at 8 tonight. Oh! And I just learned that Warehouse 13 is coming back!! I loved that show and everyone in it.

He’s either got a terrible bladder infection or his FUS is acting up. The vet gave him a shot of antibiotics and I’ve got him on painkillers, but he is not in good shape. Plus he had a temperature yesterday and he still has a temperature this morning. I don’t think it’s good that he still has a temperature. I’m waiting for my vet to wake up so I can call him and talk about it with him. Maybe it takes this long for things to run their course and I shouldn’t be this worried.

I didn’t go to work yesterday and I’m not going to go today. I just can’t leave him. (I am officially insane, I know. But what if something happens??)

Here’s the photograph I mentioned below in my June 17th post. I made it in the late 70’s and unfortunately it’s been damaged. Also, it’s too big for my scanner, so this is not the entire picture. But this is Linda in the red dress I talked about. (If you scroll down to June 17th I give a little bit of the back story.)

Finney has had this problem for years, he scoots along the floor (ew, I know, but it doesn’t do what you think it does). I regularly have his you-know-what glands expressed, but it never helps. I recently read that it could be allergies to food with grains. The problem is I give him food which helps with his tendency for FUS.

So I researched grain-free foods which are low on the things that cause FUS and changed his food. The scooting stopped! But his FUS is back this morning and I’m waiting for the vet to open and poor Finney is in the box every couple of minutes. He’s getting a little out so he’s not completely blocked so I’m not taking him to the hospital but still. He’s very uncomfortable obviously. I feel terrible. Ugh.

Anyway. I was walking behind these cool looking twins yesterday for a couple of blocks.