Life, cats

[lexin]

Life somewhat sucks.

I had an appointment with my doctor today. He wanted to talk about my kidneys. It seems they are not behaving as they should, my kidney function is still well below normal.

I’m being taken off my pills for my hemicrania as these damage my kidney function. And he wants urine samples, one tomorrow (looking for blood) and one next week looking for who knows what.

I have to increase my fluid intake. Which isn’t a real hardship, I can do that.

I am concerned about coming off my hemicrania drug as the debilitating pain may (probably will) recur. That was horrible and I ended up being sent to a neurologist.

In other news…

Opal is driving me crazy. I don’t think she has used her litter box at all this week and my hall is decorated with little piles of💩 I can live without that. She’s a real sweetheart, but I don’t need her 💩 everywhere.

I have called the vet to see if they can prescribe her Gabapentin again, as that seemed to help. I have tried various versions of cat attractant for litter trays but none of them have seemed to be effective.

Honestly, FML.

Comments

[watervole]

Oh gosh. Cat pooh everywhere sounds like the last straw after way too much other stress...

[lexin]

It really is.

I can see why some cat owners hand back to the rescue centre cats which do this. I won’t, I love Opal and my cleaner is prepared to carry on helping me. However, I think Opal may spend the rest of her life on Gabapentin.

[watervole]

I cannot imagine you parting with her.

I'm glad your cleaner is with you. Very glad.

[emrinalexander]

This is so, so frustrating for you and Opal. I had one cat, Flip, with this problem and he was basically neurotic anyway, poor guy, so the vet put him on Elavil. It stopped the pooping out of the box and he was a much happier cat. Wrestling the pill down him daily was a process though!

[lexin]

Luckily, the Gabapentin they give me for Opal is in liquid form and I drip it onto her food. I can imagine if I had to give her tablets it would be a world of hurt for both of us.