'Morning everybody. Just reading all your good thoughts and prayers makes me feel better. :)
First of all - no change.
And for those who don't know Tubby's history, he is 18 1/2 years old, in the early stages of kidney failure and has arthritis.
Now the details. After I signed off here last night I went down to start getting ready for bed. I was just coming out of the bathroom to head upstairs and I see Terry coming down the step - carrying Tubby! Terry NEVER carries Tubby and rarely even picks him up(Tubby used to be a lot more aggressive in his younger years and Terry remembers the bites). I thought that was so sweet. I guess while Tubby had gotten up and wobbled over by Terry who was on his computer - snuggling with Peanut. Tubby was so jealous that he got up and headed over. :rolleyes:
Anyway, so I picked him up and carried him downstairs to see if he wanted to use the litterbox before bed, and sure enough he had a good pee - whew, that's still working! Then I took him over by the food and he didn't want any of that, but took a good long drink - whew, still drinking! Then we both headed to bed where he crawled up on me and we had a good purr session. He wanted to bump, but he has to stand to bump and he kept sitting down. :( But we had a good snuggle session and then he laid down beside me and I fell asleep with him purring away. :) He was in bed most of the night, but he usually gets up around 4:30 - 5:00 am and he must have done that because when I woke up he was on his favorite purr pad again.
DIDN'T come for treats so I carried him in. I gave him Science Diet Savory Cuts which has cubes of food in a gravy. He ate the gravy but didn't want anything to do with the cubes, so Peanut finished them off. Then he went and took another big drink and headed back to the purr pad. He was sleeping as I was leaving, but I set a treat down by his nose to see if he'd wake up like normal, and he did, and he even ate the treat. Also there was more kibble gone from their dish in the basement and the litter box had been used more, and he didn't have to use it when I carried him down there this morning, so he is still getting around without me, and is still eating and drinking. Maybe not eating as much, but still eating which is good.
Terry is on the road today so I didn't want to leave the heating pad on all day unattended, so Tubby will have to wait until I get home again tonight for that. It's still damp and icky here, and it's supposed to be until Sunday sometime, so all I can do is try and make him as comfortable as I can until the weather changes. :( I will call the vet to see what they suggest, but Thursday is their day out of the office or something like that, so I don't know if I'll be able to get in touch with them. If I do I'll let you know what they say.
Oh, and not to make this long post any longer, but we are planning on heading to Denver for Thanksgiving to see Terry's parents. We will be leaving next Tuesday and won't be back until late late Saturday night. We'll be staying with his sister who has 2 cats of her own. So before we fell asleep last night Terry says "Maybe we should not go to Denver." I said "No, we have to go. If it gets that bad we'll just take Tubby with us!" And he says "Maybe I'll just fire up the motorhome and we'll take that!" I said "Now you're talking!" :) If he doesn't get any better before we leave, I sure hate to leave him, but we have to go because Terry's dad is in the advanced stages of Alzheimers and he might not be around much longer. So we'll see what happens.....
Thanks again so much for all the hugs, prayers and positive thoughts - and thanks for getting the Prayer Pups on it Phred. :) They really do help to lift my spirits. :)
