Category: Medical

  • Gerald’s updates (fluctuating fever, slightly jaundiced, FIV+)

    It isn’t exactly good news. Gerald’s temperature was 39 degrees this morning, but when I arrived at the clinic, the assistants were doing his wound cleaning and his temperature had risen to 39.3 degrees. The wound cleaning was done without sedation, but Gerald is on painkillers. He was very brave. This is the shoulder wound.…

  • Gerald’s temperature is down

    The vet updated this evening. Gerald’s temperature is finally down to 37.5 degrees now. But his glucose has gone up to 12.3. Could this be due to the stress from the wound cleaning? I hope so. A PBF has done this evening and Gerald’s WBC is still elevated. The vet would like to do another…

  • Gerald’s wound cleaning

    This is the right shoulder wound. Initially the wound felt hard, but today, it’s fluidy, which means there is pus now which can be drained. The draining of the pus in progress. A sample of this pus will be sent for culture to determine exactly what types of bacteria is present. The vet is also…

  • Gerald’s updates (fever spiking again)

    Last night, at about 8.30pm, the vet texted to say Gerald’s fever had normalised to 39 degrees. That was after he was given the anti-inflammatory jab. It was a small mercy that the fever had come down, because the bigger question is what was causing the fever to fluctuate and we still did not know…

  • Gerald’s updates (temperature spiking and another swollen wound detected)

    The vet just called to update. It’s not good news. Gerald’s temperature is spiking and it is now 40.1 degrees. The vet found that his left back leg is swollen now and it is probably caused by another wound there which was previously undetected. The whole leg is swollen. Either this wound was not detected…

  • Gerald’s setback (fever again)

    We were all prepared to take Gerald home this morning, but the vet texted that Gerald’s fever went up again last night, to 39.4 degrees. Yesterday morning, it was 38.6 degrees, so it means the fever is back again. The vet wants to monitor him for another day. We went to visit him and he…

  • Good morning, Juno!

    I woke up at 5.45am this morning so that I would have some time with Juno. True enough, it took me 50 minutes to coax her to eat! She must be female then; she’s eating like a Blondie. Definitely not like our Monsters! But the good news is that I was greeted with the litter…

  • Gerald eats!

    I went back this afternoon to see Gerald, bringing raw chicken gizzards. But he refused to eat any of them. I resorted to putting the pieces of gizzards into his mouth and this, he ate. But the vet said he has to eat by himself. Luckily I also brought canned food…so I tried this next.…

  • Gerald’s temperature and blood glucose are DOWN!!

    Yay!! The vet updated this morning that as of last night, Gerald’s temperature had gone down to 39.5 degrees and the blood glucose had gone down from the initial 19.04 to 11. That’s good news. The vet also said he’s much more alert this morning. The moment I stepped into the clinic, I heard the…

  • Updates on Gerald

    There isn’t much updates except for the fact that there is a high level of glucose detected in Gerald’s urine and he is a bit low on potassium. The vet will start him on a potassium supplement. So, as far as we now know, Gerald’s blood glucose is high and he also has glucosuria (glucose…

  • Gerald is hospitalised (shoulder inflammation, very high temperature)

    Gerald didn’t look “too sick”, but as with cats, they always have a very high threshold for pain, so we would never know. We went to the vet’s without an appointment and had to wait for a slot today as all the vets were all fully booked. When our turn finally came (so grateful we…

  • Found Gerald!!!

    I have found Gerald!!!!!!! But he is limping and he feels hot. Will be taking him to the vet’s as soon as they open today. This morning, Creamy was sitting atop my car, waiting for breakfast. For a moment there, I thought it was Gerald, but no, it was Creamy. I fed Creamy and asked…

  • Ginger’s inhaler

    All’s going well with the daily procedure using this Aerokat chamber to administer the inhaler for Ginger, as long as he doesn’t stay up on the platforms! Sometimes he does and we would just have to wait for him to come down. Yesterday, a big fight broke out between Ginger and Smurfy on the lookout.…

  • Ginger to the vet’s (right lung inflammation)

    Today was Ginger’s check-up of his paw wound and his lungs. The paw wound has healed. But his lung X-Rays show that the right lung is still inflamed. There is no deterioration or improvement of this condition. It doesn’t look like there’s cancer (luckily!) so we can rule out the lung-digit syndrome, which is rare.…

  • Tabs’ 4th medicated “massage”

    It’s been rather cold for the last few days. The weather is changing from scorching hot previously to a much cooler temperature. I was waiting for a really hot day to give Tabs another medicated bath, but it did not happen. And she needs another medicated bath because she’s really been biting all her subcut…