猫~vellous

Day seven after the sugery.  The old girl still looking weak.  Spoken to Dr NP and was told that after I left on Mon (23.06.2008), Lu was active, she stands up, walk about and looking much better.  But when I am there, she is like a very weak cat.  I was also told by Dr NP that Lu’s mouth may not close back up nicely, her jaw just dont seems to align properly.   It was also yesterday that I found out that Lu also have a very bad cut on her left paw.  It was deep between her fingers, stitches was not done as the vet worry the wound might had been conteminated before we found her.  If they stitch her, pus might grow so the only way is to allow it to heal by itself.  It may be badly scared by it’s the best way as recommended by the vet.  To me, these are not a major problems, as long as Lu’s life is not in danger and it’s not causing her a lot of pain, I’ll go with the vet. 

Yesterday Lu again look like she is very exhausted but her wound seems to be less swollen and also level back.  I am happy and pleased, however I am not going to slack in my prayers.  Every single moment I am there I will call out the name of “Jesus” and repeatively.  [This prayer method was taught to us by an guest speaker that was very badly persecuted by his muslim family back in India.  Seriously after praying sometime, the words of human language is so limited, what else to ask for?  So it's either I pray in the Holy Spirit language or I simply call out the name of "Jesus"!]

R also gave me some olive oil (in the Old Testament of the Chrisitian faith, oil were applied by the elderest on sick people as a symbol of God’s healing blessing) that had been prayed by her Church.  I dot some on Lu’s head and also wipe some over her body.  I then took the oil to the other two owner asking if they want to dot some onto their cat.  Whoever in the same place with me are not really bothered if they are Christian or not, as long as if it helps they’ll have a go.  One of the cat is 19, she suddenly lost her apetite and another one is 14-15, she was ok in the day and by evening she became very sick and weak.  Her owner worry that she could not pull through the night like her previous cat.  I hope to see them again today during my visit.  I pray that God almighty will have mercy on them. 

Anyway God is good!  Thank God for His healing and grace, Lu’s wound seems to be healing well.

Dr NP had given me her medical statement but it didnt emphasize the jaw injury and the statement dont seems to be very strong.  Nevertheless, I will enclose some photo shots and also the other missing cat-Candy when I make the police report.

Day one : After the jaw wiring by Dr C from MP

For more than a decade Lucy had live in Strathmore, she was taken care by an old uncle before who had passed away than his wife, later also when home and a Hainamnese auntie and her son and then me.  In Strathmore, she lost her daughter to rounding by a cleaner and a neighbour result to the poor cat being hit by a moving car and die a tragic death.  She lost her other grandchildren to heavy rain and etc. etc.  And the only keen she left with is a Tabby girl named Pebble.  She never once met with any bad aura (thank God) until 17.06.2008.

Lu usually will wait for me at the steps at the side of block 56A multi-storey car park.  That is her corner.  It’s a quiet corner where she can see passerby be it four legs or two legs.  Sometime she will wonder into Princess House, the office block next to her coner and sleep under the car or into the cool dry drain that is rarelly wet.  Lu by now dont hear very well but her sight is still good.  She will recognise me when I walk towards her.  Sometime she will want to follow me around feeding others.  She usually walks with her head low, big tummy and walk like a small polar bear. 

On 17.06.2008 evening during my rounds of feeding I didnt see Lu, I thought to myself maybe I’ll go to the back to look for her after feeding Honey.  However after Honey I went straight home.  Until I reach home then I realised that I have missed feeding Lucy.  The following day I didnt see her at her spot again and I got worried as she never miss our meeting more than twice.  I when round looking for her, Molly and Pebble tag along… or maybe they are trying to tell me something.  I still remember that I had sort of shouted to Molly not to follow me round the car park as one of the car had horned her.  I sms the Hainamnese son and he text back to say Lu is badly injured and found by a resident aunty who also doted her.  And he had admitted her into MP at Whitley.

It was kind of late and pass visiting hour so I didnt visit Lu.  I made a few calls to my own Vet and also spoken to Dr NP of WP and finally concluded to leave Lu in MP and not move her.  Dr NP suspect that she may have concarssion, head trauma and obviously she had a very injured jaw as she was bleeding from the mouth and also the nose.  She was stablised by the vet in Holland prior transferring to MP.  Dr NP says that they will not do anything and let her settle down till next morning.  They may need to xtray her before deciding what to do.  Now Lu is a old girl so Dr NP will take a blood test to check her kidney before giving her any GA.  At about noon time, Dr C operated on her on 18.06.2008.  Lu’s lower jaw was broken into two in the middle and Dr C had wire her back and a small hole was opened to put in a feeding tube.

Day Two: Still in a lot of pain. 

I broke down when I see her.  Why must someone do such a mean thing to a mind-my-own-business cat?!  Whoever did this to her will taste back their own medicine.  No way this accident is knocked by car as the demage is only on the low jaw, she dont jump any more so it cant be a fall and left with someone hitting her from the lower chin up.  The Dr agree to write me a statment and I will report to police and I will also not hesitate to write to the MP and the TC chairman too as we recently have some issues with the new lot of chinese cleaners.

Day Six: The wire under her jaw is showing and the wound is pinkish looking now.

Thus far the healing takes place very slowly.  Lu is sort of stablised but still weak.  Yesterday they have to re-align her jaw; which they tighten the wire under her jaw (without GA).  By the time I visit her in the evening, she is so drowsy from the pain killer.  Her head is like so heavy that she cant lift up but she wag her tail a lot and first time since admission.  Either she is happy or very unhappy.  She too bite the towel that she is lying on very hard.  Maybe she is frustrated from the pain, the wound seems to be pinkish now compared to the bloody one earlier on.  I hope she is healing nicely.  Dr NP did discuss with me about home care when her wound is less swollen.  I am all prepared to take this girl in.  I have thought about it when I move but everyone at home says that she like Strathmore so I left her there.

There is also another cat named Candy missing on the same day as Lucy.  I hope she is safe and not in pain.  I still call out to her at her spot.  I hope someone had relocated her (though it’s not right) than to have her badly injured.  Oh~God have mercy…

For months!  I’ve been wanting to give my bed away due to the stress of Blu and Kut-kut going onto the bed to pee but no one wanted it!!  Trust me, that is another set of stress on top of the cat peeing so often on the bed.  My bed is bearly 1 year old!  Stress on the pee saga and stress from the no-body-want-my-bed :(  Why giving away a bed is so difficult?  After lots of trying and asking here and there and almost tempted to write to forum, I finally got someone willing to take my bed… yeh.

Unlike the rest of those who had asked, P is very humble.  Due to the design of my bed, there is no way we could squeeze the bed into the lift so we have to lug the queen sized bed from 17th floor to the ground floor.  P came alone with a very old gentleman who drives a pick-up.  So it was P, me and the two girls.  It was drama.  But I am happy that my bed can be a blessing to a under preveliage family and not traded as some good or old furniture.

NOW, with the bed gone, me sleeping on the floor somewhat makes the kids very happy.  The naughty bunch ran over me, jumped on me, scratched all over me, bite me under the blanket and poor me, very victimised by a very fat cat, a naughter teenager and a lie-lew-ha (cantonese=pee without control).  Later, the old boy-blu also join in the fun.  It was torture.  I got so angry and sent them all out and by then it was already 1am plus… poor me, it was so hard to wake up this 6am.  I hope it’ll be better tonight…fingers crossed.

My visitation started on Friday (06.06.2008) to visit Ebony & Ivory.  They both thrive very well with W and her helper.  I am very happy for them.

And on Sat (07.06.2008) at a very wet AM I visited Tien-Tien and Muskie.  They were both bouncing about in the big penthouse, running up and down the spiral staircase!  Tien still shy from me but they both are very well loved by AJ and that is the only thing that matters to me.

Last Saturday was a very busy one.  It all start on Fri at about 23:00… I was so anxious to do up a scrape book for Amber, one of the adopted cat (yes, she was adopted as an adult about 2-2.5 years old).  Her whole family, including mom, dad and a brother is moving to Dubai.  This is the second time for Rusty (Amber’s new brother) to move with his family.  Rusty was adopted from SPCA in Canada with another sister who had died in Singapore due to a heart attack.  Jenny left with a rather lonely Rusty and that is when the Smith decided to adopter Amber and later re-named her Ruby.

It was in April 2007 that I when to visit Ruby and family and only got to know they are relocating to Dubai last week.  I quickly made an appointment to visit Amber and this could be the last time that I’ll be seeing her… :_(

Ruby had gained some weight again since I last seen her.  Her new brother Rusty is a huge ginger tom of eight years old.  Both kids get alone almost immediately when Ruby arrive the first day.  There was no need to put them in any separate room and by the third day, they are already playing and grooming each other.  So, this is really meant to be. 

Both J & S are very nice people and I wish the whole family well as they embark on a new journey.  I look forward in meeting them again and may God’s journey mercy be upon them all.

Attached some of the scrape book artworks… enjoy.

No, not those that happens when you are asleep.  My dream is a big piece of land (like Noah’s Ark) or a big old house (not those spooky type) where I can house in all FIV and FeLV cats or stray cats.  So whoever take care of them wont need to put them down or separate them from the negative cats.  This dream or rather wish happened with Ni-Ni where he is locked up in a room and constantly meowing wanting to come out.

With this wish, these positive cats could roam freely, stay in the garden under the sun, lead the balance of their life like a normal cat.  Climb the three, catch the bugs in the garden, paly, run, chase etc.

Than there will be the other side of this place; that is a place that provide something like a hospice care.  This huge room, maybe an extension of the house will be very “warm”.  There will be very light cream yellow painted wall, soft cushion, soft music, there will still be a big window where the very weak still be able to breath the fresh air.  Maybe each kitty will have their private room where they can have alone time with their owner or care giver on a nice warm fluffy bed where they could rest on or forever rest in peace.

This is quite a dream that involves a lot of $$$  Do you have a dream for kitty care too?  Wanna share with me?

I think Blu really cannot eat kibbles with grain.  Recently my purse a little dry so I pull out my collection of bar code and start claiming my freebies.  Some are really long time ago like NB low fat which I stop feeding as I read in somewhere that low fat food is no good for cat.  I will spread out the precious bar codes and use it sparingly.  I told J of Loving Pet that I have 5 free APD and she though I have 5 bar codes and raise her brow when I told her I have 5 free bags lah.  This time I only exchange for 1APD, 1 NB Ultra and 1 NB Low Fat.  Prior to this I also though I’ll do my kitties a favour by giving them Avodem for a change. 

When I feed NB Low Fat, all the cats love it, as long as NB I think they are fine and Blu ate a lot so does Pha-pha.  But lately I saw a lot of Blu’s fur and also notice his tight is also balding!  Ahhhhhhh… It took us so many months to grow his fur back and I am not going to allow this shedding to carry on.  BUt I am also curious how he react to NB Ultra.  Shall I test it out?  Maybe, after all he is already shedding, this will help to eliminate what is “no” “no” for dai-kor.

My helper will be coming end of the month, maybe I’ll also take the chance to train them on Honest Kitchen.

Darling Kut had been going from dustbin to litter pan to boxes try hard to pee.  I wast no time and bring him back to the vet since there are no blood stain yet.  This time we met up with Dr Lim of PAW Vet.  Dr Lim, give Kut’s tummy a good squeeze to ensure there are no “stone” growing and no urine test this time.  I was instructed to check on him regularly as “stone” do grow pretty fast, so far, I still dont know what where to squeeze, well, I’ll just squeeze all over his tummy, after all his little “waist bag” is kinda nice to squeeze like a stress ball. 

Kut were give a mild steroid and 50 pcs of cavulox and on a special urinary diet from RC apparently he taken to RC better than Hill the other time Dr Tham recommended.  He needs to be on RC for at least two months.  Now I am still living on two bags of sample given by Dr Lim, I need to replenish by tomorrow (dont think they’ll give more sample eh?) or Kut will have nothing to eat.  Anyway I still feed him his NB venison wet in the AM.  If the actual RC is not too expensive, maybe I’ll buy more so the rest can have some too as it claim to “breakdown” the stone.

Btw, since the medication started (Tue) and with the new diet, didnt see Kut going from spot to spot to pee.  I think it’s working.  Great!  But Honest Kitchen will still be my ultimate goal!  I just heard so much of good stuffs about it that I need to try it out.  But kibbles will still form part of the diet so I will have a hard time to brush their teeth and like I ever did!