ElderCat Update
Feb. 10th, 2012 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanThe meds seem to have dealt with her hypertension (and the suspected, correlated headaches); there's less "mommy I HURT!" crying, which is a blessing for us both.
She's also stopped eating everything that she could get into her bowl, and gone back to her normal grazing habits. This is both good (any change in habit, at this point, is bad) and bad (she's underweight, and I'd prefer to see her eating more). Hard to tell right now if she's eating less than she did before the munchies hit... She's drinking more, but also peeing more, and remaining hydrated, so that's one thing that's going well.
She hides occasionally, which is new and worrying, but so far doesn't seem to mind when I 'find' her.
The real change has been in how much she snuggles. Pandora was always a sweet lap-cat when it was just the two of us (she didn't like having company over, and would go sulk in the bedroom) but now it's impossible to sit down without her becoming VelcroKitty. Yesterday when I lay down to read for a bit, she snuggled up, not just at my hip, but all along my side, hip-to-shoulders. It was sweet but.. a little disturbing, I admit. And it's not just for warmth, as she's ignoring the heating pad nest we have set up for her.
Meanwhile, I'm making sure to spend time with Boomer, reassuring him he's still momma-two-leg's BEST ginger boy. He's a little sulky (and is being obnoxious to Pandora whenever he thinks he can get away with it, since she no longer smacks him down), but still sweet. And yesterday when P was curled up along my side, he came over and cuddled, too. He doesn't like that she smells sick, but he's not a TOTAL evilchild....
She's also stopped eating everything that she could get into her bowl, and gone back to her normal grazing habits. This is both good (any change in habit, at this point, is bad) and bad (she's underweight, and I'd prefer to see her eating more). Hard to tell right now if she's eating less than she did before the munchies hit... She's drinking more, but also peeing more, and remaining hydrated, so that's one thing that's going well.
She hides occasionally, which is new and worrying, but so far doesn't seem to mind when I 'find' her.
The real change has been in how much she snuggles. Pandora was always a sweet lap-cat when it was just the two of us (she didn't like having company over, and would go sulk in the bedroom) but now it's impossible to sit down without her becoming VelcroKitty. Yesterday when I lay down to read for a bit, she snuggled up, not just at my hip, but all along my side, hip-to-shoulders. It was sweet but.. a little disturbing, I admit. And it's not just for warmth, as she's ignoring the heating pad nest we have set up for her.
Meanwhile, I'm making sure to spend time with Boomer, reassuring him he's still momma-two-leg's BEST ginger boy. He's a little sulky (and is being obnoxious to Pandora whenever he thinks he can get away with it, since she no longer smacks him down), but still sweet. And yesterday when P was curled up along my side, he came over and cuddled, too. He doesn't like that she smells sick, but he's not a TOTAL evilchild....
