The bad with the good ...

Greetings all. Well, this has been a bit of a rollercoaster of a week for us. It all began on Monday with Ginger's annual vet check up and ended with some very devastating news about our fur baby Charlie. If you have been following my blog then you already know that we had to rush our kitty Charlie to our local Pet Urgent Care two weeks ago to get what ended up to be a tumor mass removed from the inside of his leg. The Pet Urgent Care sent his tumor tissue out for a biopsy and it came back malignant. They did not know the origin of the cancer (apparently there are three types of which he could have been diagnosed with). So they suggested another specific type of test using the same tumor tissue in order to get more information about what we are dealing with. I called them on Wednesday to find out the results and they came back that Charlie has renal lymphoma. Our only options are to either attempt chemotherapy or continue with palliative care (keeping him comfortable). 

Ultimately, we decided to go with the palliative care. Mainly because I KNOW that CATS AND CHEMO DO NOT MIX!! Long story short, many years ago, I kept seeing a cat chained to an outside dog house at someone home. The cat looked terrible! It almost looked like a dog - half brown fur and half gray. I remember making a call to the Humane Society and they informed me that they had already had a lot of calls regarding this particular cat and that they could not do anything about it because they had already looked into the situation and the family who owned the cat had spent thousands of dollars on this cat's chemotherapy trying to save their cat's life. THAT is why we refuse to put Charlie through that. And, since he had already been diagnosed with kidney disease this past February the prognosis is not good.  In the interim, we are feeding him the prescription food (both wet and dry) twice a day using the turmeric capsules in his wet food.

As far as Ginger is concerned, we had her annual check up and her blood work came back good. She has been taking Prednisolone ever since she was diagnosed with one lung larger than the other which caused her to have respiratory problems. So far the meds have helped her and so we will continue with them.

I have a YouTube Channel where I posted a little video of Miss Ginger fetching her nerf ball, but YouTube would not allow me to share it directly and so I posted the link to my video underneath Ginger's pic below. By the fifth try she dropped the ball right into my hand.  Please click on the link to watch it! 💕💕💕

https://youtu.be/6jXD_-b-5o0?si=m8gZMapE7J9zzaip

Blessed September everyone!