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Stupid cat part 2

 

We are still debating what to do with Reggie, he is still sneezing blood and after talking to the specialist, it will cost 2 1/2 times as much to have a camera shoved in his nose then I was first told. It is not the $ that is stopping me from having it done, we can afford it, (Not that I want to pay it) but it’s more of a “is it worth it” which not even my Vet can answer. The Vet is now looking into a MRI which would be more detailed then the camera in his nose thing, but of course they cannot take samples this way to confirm if it is cancer. So we are in a “Kobayashi Maru”. (Let’s see how many of you so called geeks know what that is) Its hard being in this situation, not knowing hurts, and knowing could hurt far worse, so we are just waiting on the Vet to let us know more information and we can go from there.

Reggie is still Reggie, crabby most of the time until he wants attention. And to clarify a few things, I posted last he weighed 10 lbs vs 13 lbs he weighed a few years ago, after I posted that I read the results I had and I must have misheard the assistant, he weighs 10.9 lbs, so it is only a 2 lbs loss over 3 years. Like that matters, just setting the record straight.

Ok, the Vet just called me, MRI’s are much more expensive then the camera in the nose, and after talking more the Vet thinks there is “less than a 50% chance it’s “good”.

So I guess we will just wait since there is no point throwing $ into something that will not help do a damn thing but stress Reggie. Reggie’s age is the main factor in this, he is almost 13 and for a cat that’s pretty old. I just do not want to put him under more stress then he has to be under so we will just wait and see and go from there.

This totally sucks.

How Do I Feel?: worried worried

We go Wii Wii….

 

Wii!

I am starting to feel my arm after throwing some serious heat in Baseball. And I actually like Golf and we both love bowling. Boxing leaves much to be desired and to make it worse we bought 2 pairs of the boxing gloves so that was a nice waste of $… But still, this is fun. I never thought I would have bought one until I started to play a few games, thanks to my pals Kris & John they showed me something with stupid name could be fun.

The Xbox 360 still kicks it’s ass but it’s something different….

And now thanks to my sore right arm, I am typing worse then I normally do which is bad. And we are going to join a gym tomorrow… how sad is it that we are joining a gym so we can play video games better?

Next on the list is a PS3 (Thanks to stupid Sony and their stupid BluRay… 1 month after buying my HD Player for the 360) and the old Sega and SNES consoles, I want to relive my youthful days….

How Do I Feel?: sore sore

Stupid Cat

A few weeks ago we found a few spots of dry blood on our leather couch, very small and in a “spray” pattern. So I looked over the 2 cats and saw nothing wrong on either, I just assumed they scratched themselves and shook their head etc, no biggie.

Yesterday we came home and found 2 pretty large areas of dried blood, and for sure you could tell it was sneezed there, I knew it was Reggie since he lives on the couch. I again looked him over and he looked ok, nothing I could see. So I told Pauline if it happens again I’d take him to a vet. So I come upstairs and start working on a friend’s hard drive that just crashed when I got the bright idea of Google-ing “cat sneezing blood”.

Stupidest thing I’ve done in a while.

I freak out, and I Google local vets and made an appointment for today at 12:20. So I cage the boy up and put a towel over him and take him to the vet, after some paper work I get to see the vet and he looks exactly like Jerry Springer, glasses and all. He and his staff were the best vets I have ever seen, very professional, friendly and very calm and gentle with Reggie; they talked in hushed tones and made slow movements and were all around the perfect vets, I was and still am, very impressed with them.

I helped them examine Reggie and he did so well, he was scared, but wasn’t hissing or growling, which is a huge difference the last time I took him to the vet, he actually chased the assistant from the room the last time he was seen by a vet, he really put the fear of god into that poor girl.

They wanted to do some blood and urine test with some x-rays, so I sat out in the waiting room and within 10 mins the assistant came out telling me how well he was doing, not fighting or growling with them at all and 5 mins later she came and got me and the Dr showed me his x-rays and showed me that Reggie has a small bladder sand said that they wasn’t able to get any urine so if they need that I may have to take him back in. (Pauline had just cleaned the litters out before I left, so he marked the box as normal)

The Dr told me to not stress anything just yet. It COULD be a tumor, and it COULD be something is in his nose or just a cold. He has a small bladder, small kidneys and arthritis in his right hip and weighs 10 lbs, which is down from 14 lbs but that was 3+ years ago when he was last weighed, so not sure what to think about that.

Right now we are just waiting on a few specialists to look it over and the Dr should be calling me tomorrow afternoon with the results. He did say that many cats have lived years with nasal tumors and that the tumors were slow growing, but nothing could be done. He may have to get a camera shoved up his nose to look, which will cost $500 to $1000 but we will have to talk to the Dr’s first to see if the thinks it’s needed, he has some fluid in his lungs but that could be just a cold.

I caged him back up and brought him home, he barely uttered a peep from the moment we first got to the Dr’s office to when we got home, but the 3 miles drive to the Dr.’s office was pretty rough for him.

Pauline and I slept pretty rough last night, so I hope we will be able to chill out tonight and sleep well. I am still stressed, but I am trying to relax as much as I can.

And as for Reggie….. That little bastard is sleeping like nothing happen….

Stupid cat.

How Do I Feel?: stressed stressed

Quite possibly the worse movie I have ever seen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109254/

On so many levels this is such a bad movie… I came in on the last 45 mins and it was just bad…. bad, bad, bad, bad…. so bad….

How did anyone involved in the making of this “movie” ever get another job?

How Do I Feel?: confused confused

My 15 mins…. sorta

Ok, this is dumb, but it made us laugh.

sportsillustrated.cnn.com

This story is about 2 college seniors who went on a year long road trip to meet who they consider some of the greatest basketball coaches of all time, so many great coaching names on this list: John Wooden, Rick Pitino, Coach K, Bruce Weber, Dean Smith and more. This is what they had to say about former Purdue coach Gene Keady.

Former Purdue headman Gene Keady invited them to his place in West Lafayette, Ind. After saying they were the first strangers to come to his home, Keady warned them his wife had a .38 revolver under her pillow, “just in case.”

Ok… When Pauline and I was dating, I worked at a fine jewelry store that use to be a surplus store for over 40 years, this place was huge and had tons of shit in it, the owner was one of those guys who could turn a dime into a million dollars so he was always trying new things etc and sent his son to gemologist school and started a fine jewelry section that eventually took over the whole store. When I started to work there the jewelry and a small gun department was downstairs and the surplus was all upstairs, a very unique place.

Anyway, Gene Keady’s wife and friend came in one day while I was in the gun department and after bragging to me how rich they are, she bought a .38 from me. Of course when she handed me the $500 bill to pay for the gun, the bill “stuck” to 4 other $500 bills… I so hate when that happens…. and of course when her friend bought a $12 clip for a holster her $100 bill “stuck” to 3 or 4 other $100 bills.

So the punch line from this, something I might have sold his wife made CNNSI!

I’m famous!

How Do I Feel?: amused amused