When Fat Cat =/= Rich Cat

[clevermanka]

In the past six months, Fetish Kitty cost more in vet bills than she has her entire fifteen years prior to this. That doesn't include food, but her food bills are higher too, since she's on all-meat-all-the-time food now.

She racked up almost $1,000 in medical bills since January.

I love my cat. And she's going to keep me from attending the yoga training course. There is no way I can catch up at this point. All the money that was supposed to be going into savings for the yoga course is now earmarked for the LASIK surgery payment. If this continues, I'll have to pay for 100% the surgery out of my savings account, instead of half from current savings and the half I'd hoped to save since I scheduled it.

I was really banking (har har) on the fact that April is a three-paycheck month. The good news is that extra paycheck means I didn't have to put any of the vet payments on a credit card. Yay for silver linings.

To remind myself why I'm shelling out all this cash:

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[cmt2779.livejournal.com]

It's hard to say. The last time I talked to the vet was around the end of November and she said then that they thought that Sophie had liver cancer and would probably decline quickly. So I was prepared for the worst and constantly watching for signs of pain or nausea or the kind of thing that would indicate her quality of life was no longer very good.

But since then Sophie's been pretty much fine. She's still very skinny, but she's eating and drinking and cuddling and purring. She gets excited about going outside in her harness to eat grass and explore the yard. She's even playing with some of the kitty toys!

So I guess she's probably sick but stable for now. If I had to guess, I'd say that the next time she takes a turn for the worse she might not be able to recover from it like she has twice before, but for now we're okay.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Very happy to hear Sophie is still enjoying life!

Fetish has stopped cuddling with me, but I'm not sure if that's because she still doesn't feel well or because she's pissed off at me from the continued daily antibiotic drops.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

She does still come running to see you when you get home!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

So I guess I'm not completely in the doghouse.