Dealing With It

The past week has been difficult as we've coped with a health issue with my little long-haired gray and white cat, Riley Beans. Beans and Revere are my writing buddies, always coming out into the kitchen to keep me company when I'm writing at the kitchen table.

We noticed that Beans was losing weight about a month ago but blamed it on the hot, humid weather suppressing his appetite and zapping his energy level. He was eating and drinking, but abut a week ago he stopped drinking out of my cup (something he's loved to do for a couple years now), and wanting us to turn on the tap a bit in the bathroom so he could drink right from the faucet. He even stopped jumping into the bathtub to lap up water...so that rang alarm bells.

So off to the vet he went to the tune of $600 for a fluid bolus to help rehydrate him, bloodwork to try to determine if he had developed diabetes or another major health issue, and an x-ray of his intestines which revealed he was constipated and may suffer from chronic constipation due to his history of bad teeth and low fluid intake.

So now he is on a grain free diet with water added to wet and dry foods to keep him hydrated as best we can, and Laxatone cat remedy from a tube that smells like maple syrup. He seems to like that.

Depending on what happens today he may or may not go back to the vet for additional an additional fluid bolus.

Needless to say I have not been able to concentrate on any writing projects and have only produced that one horrible little horror story (the product of stress, worry and a little depression maybe?)

I'm dealing with it all, carrying on as best I can with work and everything else life throws across my path.

I have a new beginning to the sequel to Black King Take White Queen in mind. Am working that out as I still hope to make that this year's NaNo novel, but I may switch it out and write it now and do the other novel I want to write in November. The girls at work are hounding me for a sequel NOW for Black King so they may get what they want after all!

Meanwhile...keeping an eye on Riley Beans who is only 5 years old. He's too young to have these health woes!