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Got Ra in to Dr. B first thing this morning. He did a physical exam and said our next course of action would be to get Ra to an internist for possible ultrasound of the belly to rule out cancer. An appointment was hastily arranged with Dr. Medinger at VCA Aurora for 1000.
Drove like a bat out of hell in the rain to get there in time, it was a bit of a hoof from Aurora Cat Clinic, and through a bit of gnarly road construction to boot. Got there and had to keep calling J to have him help me fill in the health questionnaire, but I got 'er done. Ra was weighed--9.2 lbs, not much different than his last weigh-in, which surprised me because he looks so much more skinny. Got asked a bunch of questions about Ra's past health history by a regular vet, had to call J again, LOL, but, again, we got 'er done.
Dr. Medinger did a physical exam, asked me still more questions, did some thinking and dropped two bombshells on me. Bombshell the first-did we know Ra was in stage two renal failure according to his latest blood work? No we sure as hell had not been told that! Bombshell the second--did we know Ra has a slight heart murmur? No, we sure as hell did not!! Sigh. What a new set of eyes can find out for you, I guess...
Game plan is to get Ra a thoracic x-ray and an abdominal ultrasound to check for growths that might be cancer as well as anything else that might be amiss. He's scheduled for his ultrasound at 1500. I didn't want to wait in the very active and noisy VCA waiting room for that long, so I've come back home to wait it out--they're open til 1900 so I might try to wait to pick up Ra when J's gotten a chance to get back home so we can get the diagnoses together. Dr. M asked me what our worst thoughts were as to what is going on--I said our worst fear was that it was cancer. The Big C. He said that was definitely worst case, to try not to fret about it while we waited for the diagnostics to come back, and to go home and relax for awhile until Ra's done with his imaging and possible other testing.
This is gonna cost us. I had to put down half on the low end estimate for the cost of diagnostics before they would agree to work on Ra. Ouch, is all I'll say, but he's our Grand Old Boy and worth every penny. Thank Bast for good credit limits and low spending from same.
We're preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best. Requesting prayers, healing energy, etc. for our Ra and for us. Poor J has to be at work today fighting the IT fires, so I'm taking care of all this on my own, calling him regularly with updates. Both of us have had tears this morning because of all of this. I just really hope we're both wrong and nothing is drastically wrong with our Ra kitty.
Drove like a bat out of hell in the rain to get there in time, it was a bit of a hoof from Aurora Cat Clinic, and through a bit of gnarly road construction to boot. Got there and had to keep calling J to have him help me fill in the health questionnaire, but I got 'er done. Ra was weighed--9.2 lbs, not much different than his last weigh-in, which surprised me because he looks so much more skinny. Got asked a bunch of questions about Ra's past health history by a regular vet, had to call J again, LOL, but, again, we got 'er done.
Dr. Medinger did a physical exam, asked me still more questions, did some thinking and dropped two bombshells on me. Bombshell the first-did we know Ra was in stage two renal failure according to his latest blood work? No we sure as hell had not been told that! Bombshell the second--did we know Ra has a slight heart murmur? No, we sure as hell did not!! Sigh. What a new set of eyes can find out for you, I guess...
Game plan is to get Ra a thoracic x-ray and an abdominal ultrasound to check for growths that might be cancer as well as anything else that might be amiss. He's scheduled for his ultrasound at 1500. I didn't want to wait in the very active and noisy VCA waiting room for that long, so I've come back home to wait it out--they're open til 1900 so I might try to wait to pick up Ra when J's gotten a chance to get back home so we can get the diagnoses together. Dr. M asked me what our worst thoughts were as to what is going on--I said our worst fear was that it was cancer. The Big C. He said that was definitely worst case, to try not to fret about it while we waited for the diagnostics to come back, and to go home and relax for awhile until Ra's done with his imaging and possible other testing.
This is gonna cost us. I had to put down half on the low end estimate for the cost of diagnostics before they would agree to work on Ra. Ouch, is all I'll say, but he's our Grand Old Boy and worth every penny. Thank Bast for good credit limits and low spending from same.
We're preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best. Requesting prayers, healing energy, etc. for our Ra and for us. Poor J has to be at work today fighting the IT fires, so I'm taking care of all this on my own, calling him regularly with updates. Both of us have had tears this morning because of all of this. I just really hope we're both wrong and nothing is drastically wrong with our Ra kitty.
