Thankful for Our Health
Today is Thanksgiving and I am thankful to be able to report that both Watson & Crick got through their dental vet visits last week. Watson needed a premolar extracted and Crick needed a crown amputation on one of her premolars, but they came through their procedures just fine.
Both cats have to take meds, but Crick’s med is once every 24 hours to be put on her food and Watson’s med is every 12 hours to be rubbed into his ear, alternating ears for each administration. So I figured that that was a lot of things to remember and decided to write down a schedule so I’d remember what I needed to given when and when I looked at it I realized that I’d created a cat MAR. I’ve been working in healthcare for too long!
In other health related news, I came down with zombie eyeball disease again. It started Tuesday night with my left eye feeling sore and itchy – I thought maybe I’d just gotten something in it, but when I woke up on Wednesday morning my eye was glued shut with eyeball secretion! Once I washed out the goop, I could see that my eyeball looked like this:
I also had a wee bit of sore throat but nowhere near as bad as it did last time (that was excruciating!), so my self-diagnosis is that I have regular pink eye rather than excruciating zombie eyeball level pink eye. Or perhaps my eye was just getting dressed up for Halloween early? At any rate, both my eye and my throat are feeling much better and the kitties are being troopers. They are mostly just upset that they aren’t getting their crunchy treats, as they have to eat only soft foods until their one week post-surgery checkup, to give their mouths times to heal. I’ve been giving them these treats that my sister introduced me to last Christmas, which we affectionately refer to as “meat tubes”:
They love the meat tubes, but seem to believe that they should get those in addition to, and not in place of, their beloved crunchy treats. #FirstWorldCatProblems
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Not happy or simply being stoic? Perhaps the keeper of the treats should also have a column on the fridge MAR for eye care this week. Get well soon, everyone!