Symptom review

Bad health again for a change. It is difficult to sleep at night for many different reasons. Heart beats too fast and is symptomatic. Left hand has had symptoms for longer, and now the numbness and tingling first spread to the right hand as well, and then to the legs. I can only hope that it was due to the stiff neck. If not, that's pretty bad. The blood wont circulate, even my fingers are completely blue.

 

Lately, I've been most worried about Olivia. Too often she has diarrhea and vomiting at the same time. One of her teeth visibly fell out some time ago. But she has plenty of appetite. I have added one more meal a day for her, it now she gets wet food four times a day. So again, the suspicion arises as to whether she could have hyperthyroidism. She didn't last spring.

 

I noticed to my shock that all Virbac kidney dry foods contain bentonite. Bentonite, which is used as a binding ingredient in cat diarrhea medicines. And that's what many cat litters are made of... So, if kidney failure causes constipation, is it really good idea to add constipation-exacerbating substance to cats' kidney foods? I noticed that there's bentonite also in some other cat foods. That would understandable only in food intended for a cat with diarrhea, not anywhere else. I no longer give Virbac to Kali, who has to be given a laxative every day. It's another one of the ideas of cat product makers that I just don't understand.

I noticed that Zooplus has Kali's kidney medicine Ipakitine. Because it is on the department of the dogs, I hadn't noticed that before. For a moment I was sad that I hadn't noticed it before, and that's why I hadn't included it in the previous Zooplus order that had just arrived. But then I realized that a 180 gram jar of Ipakitine costs 40 euros at Zooplus. Shocking price, everywhere else it's about half the price. For example, from the kivuton.fi online store, which is known for its high prices, you can get TWO 180g cans of Ipakitine for 33 euros. For a while, I thought that it wouldn't be necessary to order from Kivuton, but it is, mainly because of that Ipakitine. There you could also get horse cream containing benzyl benzoate, just in case of scabies. It's just too expensive, 55 euros.

 

I should order from Musti ja mirri again because I would get a 20% discount. The main reason for the order is the grain-free Natures menu wet food, Olivia likes it. And she doesn't like many grain-free foods. She would like to eat mostly real meat (chicken), but those foods are complementary food and not complete food. So, if Olivia ate only those, it would be so-called on raw food and would also need some kind of vitamin preparation. I would like to find some tasteless vitamin powder that would be suitable for Olivia. Now I've been grinding Vitalcat pills into the food for her.

Cat weight review

 

Tabitha's weight remains tenaciously at three kilos. Is the thyroid gland balanced or not? According to the schedule, Tabitha should have been taken to the vet for a thyroid check some time ago, but she hasn't been taken because she is doing well.


Kali weighs 3.4 kilos, so the fattening course was really successful. Kali is a small cat and by all logic it should weigh less than Tapsa. I have never weighed Kali before.


Olivia weighs 3.8 kilos. Already many years ago, the vet complained about her weight loss. I don't have any information about Olivia's previous weights, they were never put on the vet's card.

International Women's Day 2024

Happy Women's Day to those who still believe in the existence of women.

If this modern-day nonsense had been in fashion in my youth, I would certainly have believed myself to be non-binary then. Because I don't fit into that narrow mold of femininity. 

I have also always thought and said out loud that I will never experience any good aspects of femininity, only negative ones. Femininity may even kill me.

 

 

And what else would I do to celebrate Women's Day than play my favorite game. Of course, femininity tries to prevent that with bad health.

 

 

Of course endometriosis has rarely been found in men as well. It seems like the few men with endo get diagnosed and treated much faster than women. Because a man's pain is taken seriously, a woman's is not. I am currently reading the book Unwell Women, which tells about how women have been treated in the history of medicine.

But when it comes to celebrating femininity by gaming, I couldn't decide if I should only play as female characters in honor of women. Or as a man wearing swimming trunks?