When cat is peeing blood

Yesterday morning before eight I woke up when my 19-year-old cat Kali threw up. Then I noticed that she has another problem. She was trying to find a place where she would feel good, and she kept licking her ass. I thought it was (again) constipation. Then I noticed blood on the floor. Kali peed bloody urine all over. To floors, chairs, beds, the edges of cat toilets.

 

There was bad news at the vet. The ultrasound showed that Kali has a tumor near her spleen.

A urine sample was taken, bacteria were found. Kali received an antibiotic for a urinary tract infection. Age, kidney failure and constipation increase the risk of urinary tract infections. All of which can be found in Kali.

The kidney values ​​are even better than last time, in December. So Ipakitine seems to help? Kali also does not have, for example, hyperthyroidism.

Kalia was praised at the vet as being fit and energetic for her age. I have noticed it myself. Kali still is able to jump on the tables, and sometimes even manages to run amok.

Again, the emergency vet cost 560 euros, and we only received a 5-day course of antibiotics. I had thought that for urinary tract infections, start with 10 days, and then more if necessary.

 

 

Some time ago, Kali started screaming louder and more than before. And now you can't tell which reason it is: Physical reasons (in an old cat, e.g. dementia, hearing loss or high blood pressure can cause screaming), or the disappearance of the other cats.

Kali has also abandoned me. She never lays on top of me anymore. When was the last time? It happened sometime when Olivia was still alive. Getting on top of me was just a competition with Olivia for Kali.

I already decided that I will now try to stay on top of Kali's weight. Both Olivia and Tabitha lost too much weight near the end. I've joked that Kali does intermittent fasting. Sometimes she eats more and sometimes less. Now, after the visit to the vet, Kali didn't really start eating food. At first, of course, Kali was "high" because of the sedation, as you can see from the tongue pictures. But when I put Mirataz in Kali's ear today, she started eating again within a couple of hours.

 

Game therapy

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For weeks I couldn't focus on doing anything "sensible". To trick myself into thinking about something other than cats, I first watched the Olympics from Max and then the Handmaid's Tale, I hadn't seen the fourth and fifth seasons of that show. I still liked the fourth season, but I think the fifth was worse. When I noticed that the fifth season had come already in 2022, I thought that the series had been cancelled. But apparently the sixth and final season is coming next year. The message of the series is dark: people are the same shit everywhere.

After Tabitha's death, I consoled myself by buying games without caring much about spending money.

 

 

I bought cat games. Some "smaller" ones and one bigger one. I finally bought Stray, and played it through again. This time especially these parts resonated:

 

I watched my family die. I felt helpless. I couldn't do anything to save them. 

 

 

You were my friend, the very best I could have asked for.

 

From co-op games I finally bought Goat Simulator 3. It seems like that game has less freedom and fun than its predecessor, there's an overly long list of things you "have to" do. And some of them are quite difficult, and even buggy. 

 

Luckily long awaited game Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga came to Playstation Plus. And so did Cult of the Lamb right after that, just in time for my spouse's summer vacation. So those games we played.

I have wanted Disney's Dreamlight Valley for a long time, and was planning to buy it now because it was on sale again, but then I checked its trophies for the first time. That game does not have many trophies, and even those few are just grindy. What a disappointment. So I didn't buy it.

But Everdream Valley caught my attention and I bought it. That game has plenty of animals. The game is nice but early on I was annoyed by having to chase animals, that's just too much trouble. So I'm kind of regretting buying that game.

 

I desperately want to find similar games as my beloved My Time at Sandrock. And in this context Coral Island has often been mentioned, and its full access-version has finally been released. And another similar game is said to be Roots of Pacha. To these kind of games I absolutely need the story mode, which tells me what to do. I'm not interested in roaming around aimlessly, like recently in Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, I stopped playing it right at the start.