yoonamania » Grizzley http://yoonamania.com/blog Three dogs and their pooper scooper Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:46:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Trying To Get My Groove Back http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/07/01/trying-to-get-my-groove-back/ http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/07/01/trying-to-get-my-groove-back/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:47:09 +0000 yoonamaniac http://www.yoonamania.com/blog/?p=979 So I’m trying to get on with my life. I’ve been depressed and miserable. Losing Grizzley hit me hard. He’s been with me 14 years and I spent more time with him than with anybody else in my adult life if not my whole life. I loved him and he loved me probably much more than I loved him. He could not stand not to be able to touch me. His favorite place to loll about was my neck and shoulder area. His favorite pastime was to knead on my hair purring up the storm. I’m still having a hard time and I haven’t been able to go into “his” room yet. If you are one of those who are itching to say “it’s JUST a cat!”, don’t say it because I will surely hate you and wish you a very slow and painful death.

Anyway.

Getting back to blogging is one of the first things I’ve thought of as a way to get on with my life. Oh well, it’s the only thing, actually. But I’ll start with this although I find it hard to blog after a long break.

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]]> http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/02/21/rest-well-my-baby-love-you-always-always/feed/ 12 He a Fighter http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/02/18/he-a-fighter/ http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/02/18/he-a-fighter/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:20:03 +0000 yoonamaniac http://www.yoonamania.com/blog/?p=953 Grizzley bounded back up again. This morning, he was occupying his usual morning lounging place on top of a small cat condo in the room upstairs basking in the morning sun light, where he hadn’t had the strength to go up for a couple of days prior. He ate a good amount, not as much as usual, but not too shabby. When I was leaving for work, he was back in his morning lounging place.

A diuretic has been added to his daily medication. I will probably take him back to the vet on Friday or Saturday so that I don’t have to run to the emergency vet clinic Saturday night or on Sunday.

Thank you so so very much for your prayers, thoughts, love and support. It means a lot and we appreciate it so so very much.

]]> http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/02/18/he-a-fighter/feed/ 11 One Day at a Time http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/02/17/one-day-at-a-time/ http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/02/17/one-day-at-a-time/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:49:56 +0000 yoonamaniac http://www.yoonamania.com/blog/?p=944 Grizzley is again at the vet. I stayed up until five this morning trying to decide if it’s time. I don’t want him to suffer needlessly but I don’t want to put him down if he’s still fighting and hasn’t given up.

As much as I watched him, I couldn’t tell. He kept going to his food bowls, a little too often, tried to eat, but couldn’t eat more than a bite. Yesterday he probably ate about a quarter of the amount he normally eats. He couldn’t stay lying in one position for more than 10 minutes at a time. He couldn’t make himself comfortable. He made sounds that resembles moaning or groaning sounds when he changed his position. He was alert. He started purring as soon as my hand touched him. He had hard time breathing. He was wobbly. I didn’t know what to do.

My friend, who I made the arrangement with, to drive me to the vet when I have to put Grizzley to sleep, called around 6:45 in the morning to see if he should come to drive me to the vet  or he should go to work. I still didn’t know. We decided he should go to work, and see later and he’d leave work early if it had to be done today.

After I took the dogs out, however, Grizzley was following me around in the kitchen, weak as he was and breathing laboriously, rubbing against my ankle and meowing and purring. He still had life in his eyes and he hasn’t given up yet. So I got ready for work, put him in the carrier, drove to the vet and dropped him off so that they could make him more comfortable and take the fluid out of his lungs again. And I’ll have another sleepless night with Grizzley.

]]> http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/02/17/one-day-at-a-time/feed/ 7 Griz Had A Bad Day Today http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/02/15/griz-had-a-bad-day-today/ http://yoonamania.com/blog/2009/02/15/griz-had-a-bad-day-today/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:37:34 +0000 yoonamaniac http://www.yoonamania.com/blog/?p=941 Just came back from the emergency vet clinic near me. Grizzley’s breathing started sounding labored a little last night. I decided to take him to Dr. L on Monday since they are closed on Sunday. Towards this evening, however, his breathing was too labored and he started wheezing even. The emergency clinic vet took about 150cc of fluid out of his lungs. I don’t know how it accumulated so much in such a short time without me noticing and he didn’t even lose appetite. What worries me more though, is that his temperature is 3 or 4 degrees lower than normal, which, they say, indicates poor blood circulation. But after taking the fluid out, Grizzley is much more alert and breathing much more freely without making any wheezing sound. He’s now sleeping right next to my butt, and I’m having a drink.

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