Category: Medical

  • Cat therapy at home

    I was down and out with food poisoning since lunch until this evening. The culprit was Thai food. So, no more, please. When I get food poisoning, I get it really bad. It will start with giddiness and nausea (exactly like motion sickness), followed by severe vomitting and the works. So the moment I started…

  • Hello there, Pepper (rescued in 2010)

    Way back in 2010, during our gungho days, I made a trip to Selayang Pound to feed the dogs there and ended up rescuing 23 puppies out of the pound. Pepper was one of them and my kind friend adopted her. The rescue: https://animalcare.my/2010/02/25/from-selayang-pound-straight-to-the-vets/ Pepper was initially named Husky by us, but my friend renamed…

  • Saimei An powder, a TCM for wounds

    My friend shared that this traditional Chinese medication helped her dogs in wound healing. Disclaimer: This is just a sharing. Kindly consult your veterinarian for professional advice.  What works for some animals may not work on others.  From DeepSeek: ### Drug Name *Sai Mei An Powder* ### Drug Type – Prescription Drug – Topical Medication…

  • Ginger to the vet’s (CKD maintained at Stage 1)

    Today was Ginger’s check-up at the vet’s. I was, again, quite nervous about it. On the way to the vet’s. The short version: Ginger is okay! His CKD is maintained at Stage 1. He has some lung issues, and he has to lose weight! The long version: Here are Ginger’s kidney readings: Creatinine 98 Urea…

  • Naughty, naughty Robin!

    Our vet suggested blending Robin’s urinary pouch food for him so that he can lick up the blended food instead of having to pick up the “biji-biji”. So I blended one pouch and guess what? It was a completely failure!! Oh well, we would not have known unless we tried and I did and failed!…

  • Have a healthy meatless day!

    I really like two youtube doctors who talk about health: Dr Jason Fung and Dr William Li. Here’s an article that might be useful to all of us: https://www.cnet.com/…/foods-may-decrease-risk-cancer/ A tip I learnt yesterday: Always eat the whole food, not juices, not even smoothies and probably not powders. Eat the whole food. Reason: The sugar…

  • Taking care of ourselves for the sake of our animals (the liver – my appointment today)

    My big moment of truth was this morning when I went to see the top internationally-renowned specialist and researcher in fatty liver. I made the appointment two months ago. Prior to the appointment, I had written out my entire medical history for the professor and compiled all my blood test readings. The good doctor took…

  • Tabs to the vet’s (follow-up on PCKD)

    Backstory: According to the vet, Tabs has probably had PKD (polycystic kidney disease) all her life (they are normally born with it) but since all her blood tests during earlier years showed normal kidney readings, no ultrasound was done. It was only in December 2023 that a routine blood test suddenly showed elevated an creatinine…

  • Robin to the vet’s (follow-up on cystitis)

    I took Tabs and Robin for their follow-up this morning. This blogpost is about Robin first. The backstory: On 22nd January 2025, I rushed Robin to the vet’s because he was straining to urinate. Straining to urinate is always a medical emergency. Thankfully, he wasn’t blocked at all. So he was prescribed medication, a supplement…

  • Juno eats soaked kibble!

    I had thought it’d be impossible to get the Blondies to eat soaked kibble (it was a few months ago where they would stage a boycott and go on hunger strike), but it’s totally possible now. So that’s one achievement for me! Perseverance and lots of luck! My senior vet who likes to feed kibble…

  • Mortzy & kittens given clean bill of health by vet

    Joy took Mortzy & kittens to the vet’s for a check-up today and all three were given a clean bill of health! From Joy: Clean bill of health. Dewormed. Later will deflea mom at home. Vet okayed it. Kittens are both 400gms, Mom is 3.93kg, approximately 3 yrs old.  Both Simba and Snowflake are boys…

  • Taking care of ourselves again (the liver)

    Hi friends, More information to share with all of you. I went for my pneumoccocal vaccine this evening and was so lucky to get a radiologist in attendance at the clinic. So, vaccination done, and then I asked him if he could interpret my blood test results for me. I learnt quite a few things…

  • Taking care of ourselves for the sake of our animals (blood glucose and cholesterol)

    Allow me to digress every once in a while. This is a follow-up to my eating plan to (1) reduce my blood glucose and (2) reduce my cholesterol (particularly my triglycerides and LDL if ever that’s even possible). Backstory: My blood glucose isn’t really that bad but I hit the prediabetes reading (HbA1c at 5.7)…

  • US cats contracted bird flu through raw food

    This is the news: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cats-euthanized-after-testing-positive-bird-flu-linked-raw-pet-food-2025-02-14/https:// Excerpts: Both cats that tested positive ate the same brand of pet food, Wild Coast Raw, before becoming ill, Oregon’s agriculture department said. Testing confirmed the presence of bird flu in the cats and food samples, according to the department. The owners of the cats, which lived in separate households,…

  • Juno’s post-op (Day 5)

    I could not sleep until very late last night due to the fireworks. So I spent the time with Juno, off-collar, under strict supervision. She licks and grooms around the surgical site, but not on it, so I confidently took off the collar on her last night. I think she’s quite miserable wearing it. All…