kristen999: (Lost in Translation)
kristen999 ([personal profile] kristen999) wrote2011-10-17 09:05 pm

Could Use Some Postive Vibes

Over the summer my kitty Lucybell has been dealing a variety of health issues. She's always had tummy problems, suffering from mega-colon, in which she's on medicine. During the last couple months we have had a horrible time with fleas. She's an indoor kitty, but this summer has been unreal. We bombed the apartment, gave her Frontline , but it was like an all out war. New fleas would invade even if all the others died.

She got a tapeworm as a result of the fleas, (they're carriers apparently) and it took a few weeks to battle that. Between the tapeworm and the fleas she's lost a lot of weight.

The last couple days she hasn't left my side. She won't eat, she looks miserable, and I just have this gut feeling that she's in a bad way.

Hubby is taking her to the vet tomorrow and I would really appreciate it if you guys could send positive vibes this way. She's ten years old, but she’s a robust Maine Coon, and until this, a very vibrant, healthy cat.

[identity profile] imaginarycircus.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no!! *thinks good healing thoughts for her*

[identity profile] powrhug.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
oh no, I hope everything will be fine. Sending good thoughts.

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I'm really scared because she literrly won't leave me and inists on laying her head on my arm or leg. I'd take her to the vet ER but I don't have enough on-hand cash to pay for a taxi since we don't on a car.

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I just have this horrible feeling and it's freaking me out.

[identity profile] imaginarycircus.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
If you just need to get cash out of an ATM the taxi can run you by one. I've had to do that before. We don't own a car either.

[identity profile] neevebrody.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Positive vibes on the way to Lucybell and you!! (let's hope they get there faster than posting a LJ comment tonight)

Here's hoping for good news from the vet!
Edited 2011-10-18 01:19 (UTC)

[identity profile] maxieroc.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
I am sending payers your way, and thinking positive thoughts

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
I just joined a credit union b/c of severe financial issues so I don't have an ATM card, just a standard savings account that I have to go inside for. I don't own a credit card either. I know it sounds dumb, but living off of cash has helped us pay down debt, but even if I could go to an atm, I'd only have enough money to cover the ride b/c the hospital is so far away. When I go to work I can get a cash advance if needed.

I normally don't care if I'm poor until times liek these.

[identity profile] black-raven135.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
For Lucybell:

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and HUGS for you
:-)

[identity profile] pisces227.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Fingers crossed, sending healing vibes your way.

[identity profile] imaginarycircus.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't sound dumb at all. I totally understand and always lived off cash only until a few years ago. I'm heading back in that direction, because I spend too much money with credit cards.

[identity profile] lunachickk.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
*sending good healing vibes*

I worked for a vet for 15 years. Mega-colon can be serious but tapeworms are usually not too serious. How long hasn't she been eating? How's her color? (are her gums pink?)

[identity profile] black-raven135.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
You must stay positive.......Lucybell will pick up on any negativity......

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Her eyes have been gunky, she hasn't gone to the sandbox in several days which is the mega-colon. We upped her meds. I'm thinking it's the mega-colon acting up with the weight loss making her weak.

All she does is lay there and sleep and look at me with 'sad eyes' which I know sounds silly.

She's gone from eating normally to eating very little for a few days to not eating starting Saturday night.

I'm hoping we get eek by until Monday when the vet opens.

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'm hiding it from her. Just letting her cuddle with me as we speak.

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
We're almost there as far as taking baby steps. We pay bills online using reloadble Visa Cards, thus ensuring we're still sticking to cash so to speak.

I think we're a year out fro geting out from under the rock after almost four years.

[identity profile] imaginarycircus.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
It will be a long time before we're done with out student loans. *sigh*

[identity profile] lunachickk.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
It does sound like the mega-colon. Poor baby. Does the vet have her on a special diet?

*sending more good thoughts*

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
She is on a wet-food only diet and we give her medicine daily.

But stress triggers the mega-colon and since she's been sick, that hasn't helped.

Thank you for the vibes. *croses fingers*

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm nowhere near on the collge loans.Sigh. My hubby had cancer when he was 25. Add using credit cards to pay for basic needs, the car dying, and getting one of those loans with a 28% interest rate to fix it...and well, it snowballed and snowballed.

We started over when we moved to Buffalo four years ago and we're almost to the point where we don't worry as much.

[identity profile] imaginarycircus.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
*squish*

That sounds so stressful. D:

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you hon.

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much.

[identity profile] kristen999.livejournal.com 2011-10-18 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Awwwww. Thank you.

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