Thanks for checking on us, guys. Sorry I haven't updated before now - I just really haven't felt like posting much.

It's been 2 wks, 1 day since Squacky died but it seems so much longer than that. I sure do miss that lil' squirt. He was doing so well, I'm not sure what happened.

One of his "babier" pictures:


I have more I would like to share with everyone but I can't look through/post them yet; it hurts too much.

Staci (shais_mom) sent me a silver squirrel charm that I wear constantly.




As for Kissiekat... we still haven't had her nose checked yet - will do that on the 27th. That's the earliest appointment I could get her when I called. (Doc S has completely quit now so they're trying to work her appointments into Doc N's schedule.) I really feel it's nothing but, for my peace of mind, I want it looked at. Here's a pic of it:


(She was takin' a bath... or maybe blowing raspberries at the camera!)



Now, for dear Tinker...
Her counts have gone down but not much, not as much as he'd hoped anyway. She has good days and bad days, though I think the bad out number the good. When we'd first started the dialysis, she perked up and gained a bit of weight; she's lost that now. She's anemic and her red (or maybe white) blood cell count is down.

We're giving her the dialysis (subcu-fluids) treatments at home now and they've mixed in a potassium solution. She's also on procreatin (spelling? to stimulate production of the blood cells) shots, pepcid-type shots (to soothe any sores in her mouth or stomach and perk up her appetite), and liquid antibiotics. She HAS to feel like a pin cushion (granted, the two shots are actually injected into the subcu mixture).

I think the Pepcid-stuff burns her; she all but howls when we inject that.


I don't know how much we can rightly put her through but we've come too far to just stop. Doc N still feels that, if we can get her to a certain point, we can control it through diet and meds. While she is (S L O W L Y) showing results, but... I dunno.

Her next appointment is Monday.

This was from one of her perkier days:





Does anyone remember Sid? I think I've only posted his picture once. We got him from the Humane Society right before we had to have Clarice PTS. He's a dork! I'll throw a couple of pictures in for good measure:


He likes to wear that feather boa. And bottle tops are his allll time favorite. lol



To show off his markings:



That's about it from us. Piper's still being "weird" and refuses to come out of his cage; he's not as sociable as Miz Sophie was. And Sara's the same ol' silly Sara! I have pics of them but they're still on the camera.

{{hugs}}