The last couple of days have been REALLY interesting.  Two days ago, Baby, Gizmo and I were not feeling our best.  I had a sinus infection and my girls were having tummy problems.

When I took Baby to the vet a couple of weeks ago, he said her teeth and gums looked better than he’d ever seen them.  He really had a point.  When she came to us, her teeth were covered with icky stuff and her gums were bleeding a lot.  Now her teeth are really white, very strong and sharp and the gums have stopped bleeding completely.  She still has some issues though because if she doesn’t have antibiotics for a couple of days, she goes off her feed and starts vomiting.  The one she had been taking for almost a month started giving her loose stools though so the vet changed it to something else. 

I’d had her on the new medication for over a week and it seemed to be fine but then on Wednesday, she started vomiting.  I called the vet and told him I thought she should be back on her old medicine for a while.  He agreed and I’ll take her in around October 15th.  I think he’s going to want to do some additional tests to find out why this continues to happen.  He’s fairly certain it’s some kind of bacteria but he’s not sure what it is or how to treat it.  We’ll get to the bottom of it I’m sure. 

Gizmo was also having tummy issues.  I got up in the middle of the night and found a HUGE hairball in the livingroom.  Gizmo’s ulcer needs to have the Tagamet twice a day and not once a day as we were very much hoping.  She was hungry but she just wasn’t keeping it down very well. 

After a full day of everybody hissing at everybody else, I was starting to lose my patience with both of them.  I was having a roaring sinus infection headache and I was not amused by the continued posturing.  I have to say neither of them really cared whether I was miffed about their constant needling; they just continued with gay abandon.  So far, they haven’t really come to blows.  It’s usually just a lot of hissing from Gizmo in Baby’s direction if Giz thinks Baby is getting a little too close.  However, Baby can give back as good as she gets and sometimes she just goes looking for trouble.  It was a very long day.

By the time we went to bed, they’d both had two doses of medication and were obviously feeling much better, but they weren’t ready for peaceful coexistence just yet.  Hubby-honey and I would just start drifting off to sleep and one of them would do something to set the other one off and somebody would be doing the deep throat growling.  It was a long night.

To my surprise and relief, yesterday wasn’t too bad.  The girls were feeling better and food was staying down pretty good.  I think this helped a lot toward keeping tempers tamped down a bit.  Giz finally got tired of staring at Baby, because Baby had gotten bored with the whole thing and just up and went to sleep.  Giz finally went out on the couch and went to sleep on her blanket. 

I hadn’t been sleeping too well for the past two nights because of my sinus infection with its attendant headache and face pain, but I slept pretty good last night. – until about 3:30 in the morning. 

I had just gotten up to use the bathroom and while I was up, I fed the girls because they were both looking expectantly at their feeding bowls. While I’d been feeding the girls, Hubby-honey had gotten up to use the bathroom as well so we were both awake a half an hour later when the thundering herd ran up the hallway, making such a screeching noise as to wake the dead.  With my heart pounding a mile a minute, I ran into the hall to break up the fight but no fight came.  Baby ran to the left into the guest room and hid under the bed.  Gizmo ran to the right into the computer room and that was the end of the argument.

Hubby-honey has to get up to go to work at 4:00 so I don’t think he got back to sleep.  I must have dropped off because I was asleep when he came in to kiss me goodbye and wish me good day. 

Today has been fairly quiet.  It was raining this morning so Baby was in the house until almost 11:00.  When the sun started shining, I let Baby out to catch some rays.  She really hates being cooped up in the house all day. 

I’m beginning to wonder if they don’t get along better when no human is around to pay attention.  Hmmm – definitely a point to ponder.

Tags: antibiotics, Cat, feline ulcer, Female Cat, gingivitis, gum disease, hairball, tagamet, vet

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