Jul. 26th, 2013
elder gods who are also elder cats
Jul. 26th, 2013 06:20 pmUnrelated to the previous entry's cat, but I had this mostly written when things exploded so I may as well finish it. It's the kind of thing I would have posted about immediately some years back.
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uilos took the elderly cats in for a routine checkup. Twelve-year-old Kai Wren, Godslayer And Lord Demon, is perfectly healthy. The Crawling Chaos That Is Nyarlathotep, nearly fourteen, has a small heart murmur. "Bring him back in six months so we can check up on it," the vet said.
Last week she brought him in for a follow-up. The heart murmur had gotten worse, and they wanted him to come back for an EKG to find out what was going on.
There followed a somewhat stressful week of worrying.
The EKG was yesterday (shaved cat-chest and all), and they called us with results this afternoon. It's about as good as it could be, I guess: class 2 murmur (scale of 1 to 6), some thickening of the heart muscles but well-compensated for. Bring him back in another six months, see what if anything has changed.
For geriatric cats they're in remarkably good shape. It's just ... these are the kittens. They're not supposed to get old! Even though Kai is more grey than brown (especially in the face and around the feet) and Chaos pretends he's too decrepit to jump up on the chair, preferring to go ottoman - couch - back of couch - cat rest - chair. In my head Kai is still this tiny brown furball curled up inuilos's hands (not arms, just hands), and Chaos is the goofy cat who couldn't understand how we knew to yell at him to get down off the counter when he kept stepping on the answering machine.
I'm still not sure what to do with the idea that these cats a) really are old, and b) might not be around forever. So mostly I just ignore it and give them lots of scritches when they come curl up next to me.
It works for now.
Six months ago
uilos took the elderly cats in for a routine checkup. Twelve-year-old Kai Wren, Godslayer And Lord Demon, is perfectly healthy. The Crawling Chaos That Is Nyarlathotep, nearly fourteen, has a small heart murmur. "Bring him back in six months so we can check up on it," the vet said.Last week she brought him in for a follow-up. The heart murmur had gotten worse, and they wanted him to come back for an EKG to find out what was going on.
There followed a somewhat stressful week of worrying.
The EKG was yesterday (shaved cat-chest and all), and they called us with results this afternoon. It's about as good as it could be, I guess: class 2 murmur (scale of 1 to 6), some thickening of the heart muscles but well-compensated for. Bring him back in another six months, see what if anything has changed.
For geriatric cats they're in remarkably good shape. It's just ... these are the kittens. They're not supposed to get old! Even though Kai is more grey than brown (especially in the face and around the feet) and Chaos pretends he's too decrepit to jump up on the chair, preferring to go ottoman - couch - back of couch - cat rest - chair. In my head Kai is still this tiny brown furball curled up in
uilos's hands (not arms, just hands), and Chaos is the goofy cat who couldn't understand how we knew to yell at him to get down off the counter when he kept stepping on the answering machine.I'm still not sure what to do with the idea that these cats a) really are old, and b) might not be around forever. So mostly I just ignore it and give them lots of scritches when they come curl up next to me.
It works for now.