Week 39

Happy Tuesday!  Last week was quite a week mostly consumed with pet care.  Rusty ended up back in emergency and had to stay for 3 nights with an overly complicated UTI.  Ugh!  Thankfully they found something that worked to help him heal so he's back home recovering and hopefully here to stay although it is a bit touch and go.  That combined with much needed fall goodness pretty much summed up our week last week.

Take a look at how it all went down:

Day 270- Monday, 9/27/21

We started the week with some cooler days and some great clouds that felt like the start of a real fall season.  I know it won't last but I'm happy to soak it up anytime I can get it.  What a great day to be outside.  It's hard to see but there is actually a kite flying up there in the those clouds.  Can you spot it?  I also noticed this alien looking seed pod growing on one of the trees we passed coming home from the park. I've never seen these before and was surprised find out they are from a magnolia tree.

Day 271- Tuesday, 9/28/21

The lab urine results came back informing us that Rusty's UTI is not bacterial which means it's most likely stress related which of course is harder to treat.  Now that we know though we can better target his treatment and plan for preventing more episodes.  After work I picked up more prescribed meds and food required as a special diet he'll need for the rest of his life--the joys of having older pets.

Day 272- Wednesday, 9/29/21

Unfortunately, Rusty took a turn for the worse sometime overnight.  There was blood in his urine, he was in extreme pain, and he could no longer pee so back to emergency we went.  I sat in the car for 2 hours while they checked him out and took x-rays waiting for a plan before I could leave.  He does not have a stone blockage but does have a large blood clot and some cellular-debris sediment blocking him so they decided to put a catheter in and keep him for 48hrs to try and flush everything out.  It's so hard to leave him, but I know it's the only way he'll get better.

Day 273- Thursday, 9/30/21

I'm working from home today and love the slow and relaxing start of remote work. Normally this would be my commute time and you can count on the fact that I don't miss the commute.  Traffic has been a nightmare lately even at the odd early hours I'm on the road. What I am missing this morning is my kitty.  He's usually my morning bud.  Sadly his bladder is so inflamed and angry that he's still not doing well even with a catheter so now the plan is to inject an infusion of something that is supposed to help repair and heal the lining of his bladder. He'll need 2-3 doses of that but  they only have one on hand so had to ordered more.  They'll start the 1st dose today and plan to give another tomorrow morning.  If it works he can come home Friday afternoon and if not we're looking at bladder surgery.  It's a lot to process and he's in a lot of pain even with some good pain meds which break my heart to hear.  Thankfully the new season of some of favorites show have started to help me keep my mind off the what-if's surrounding our cat.

Day 274- Friday, 10/1/21

Happy Friday and happy new month!  Welcome to October.  Bella was more than happy to pose with the monthly marker for a treat, of course.  Afterward, on our walk after, we intentionally looked for signs of fall.  It's a little early for color here, but we spotted some so that's a start at least.  Not a bad way to end the week.  Rusty update: The first infusion worked wonders and he's doing much better but the delivery of the second dose was delayed until this afternoon so since they got started so late they decided it would be best to keep him for one more night.  

Day 275- Saturday, 10/2/21

He's finally home and doing so much better peeing on his own with no more blood and using a box.  We still need to continue some pain meds for the next week but then he should be mostly back to normal.  In other news, now that it's October, Brandon helped John pull down the Halloween decorations from the attic, and we also got the fall candy dish filled and ready to set out.

Day 276- Sunday, 10/3/21

I have my own personal biker doing wine picks for me.  It gives him an excuse to go out and ride his bike plus helps us keep the wine fridge full.  He normally wouldn't be wearing his helmet in the house but had to unload and head right back out.  LOL!  After the week we had, having a full wine fridge is not a bad idea.

That's it for this week.  Hope to see you next week with better news about Rusty.