Pix, good luck. My experience wasn't great with getting an insurance company to approve an MRI. I hope your doc is more persuasive than mine was. That diagnosis is certainly comic fodder though.
Anyone have experience giving a cat a low dose of gabapentin over a period of time? I've been dosing Gilda every 12 hours and the instructions were to do so for 7-10 days. She'd had two good days in a row (days 9 and 10) so I was ready to stop, but she had a rough morning so I gave her another dose. I'm seeing info about use for chronic pain, so I should be okay to keep going at least thru the weekend, right?
Thanks, Cindy. Nope I have it too. So far TCG is good and taking care of us.
Kristin, tons of knee~ma.
Are you giving Gilda the gabapentin for pain or Unhappy Kitty reasons?
Knees are bullshit. I injured my knee years ago, sitting down on a bus.(????) I had to tell my boss this year that I don’t think I can traipse people all around the hospital (including several flights of stairs) for our simulation day, because I could not walk for the next two days. Also, our hospital has two basements, so to get from one to the other there are stairs involved, which is also bullshit. And then I babied that knee so much, my other knee hurts now. And then I fell on Thursday.
Pix, "derangement of the knee" makes your knee sound like the Joker.
Agree that derangement of the knee sounds medieval (which to spell I always have to pronounce meddy-ehvehl in my head).
I feel bad for my parents because my sister is now also not coming for Christmas (she was supposed to drive). But also like…this is exactly why I didn’t want to fly to them at Christmas.
Otherwise I’m having a nice time with friends and it’s supposed to be warm enough for the pool this weekend, so I’m excited. And then I’ll head back to sad Seattle.
Are you giving Gilda the gabapentin for pain or Unhappy Kitty reasons?
Simple answer is pain. She's got inflammation of her bladder. Urine sample didn't show any bacteria but her behavior is like a UTI. When it flares up she just keeps bouncing in and out of the litter box.
Glad to hear you were impressed by the new doctor and her plan, Epic!
Pix, at least the knee is giving you entertainment along with the pain? Let it know it better improve or it's off to Bedlam with it!
I would advise those out driving in single digit or below temperatures not to attempt to roll down their car windows vigorously and discover as I did that a frozen safety glass window will shatter rather than unstick. The high winds have defeated my attempts to make a cling wrap cover, but the inconvenience hasn't made it any less awe-inspiring to hear 40mph winds rushing through the treetops on a snowy night.
Oh no, Matt! At least when my window failed it was positive 11°. I hope you didn't have to drive far and that you have covered parking!
Timelies all!
Supposed to get down to 10 degrees tonight. Tomorrow will be in the 20s. We're already trying to figure out how to keep Mr. S entertained this weekend, what with the holiday and all, and the temperature isn't helping.
