From butt probing to respiratory conjunctivitis
Oh what an eventful day is has been for me……….gee where shall I begin? As I’ve stated before I’ve live with four other people. Well one of my roommates has unfortunately been experiencing some problems with his bowl movements. I know you really wanted to hear about that! So as I was saying he had an appointment at the hospital today for a colon scope – butt probing as we have all laughed about. I really feel for my roommate for even having to deal with this. So being the friend I am, I volunteered myself to take him to hospital.
Once the alarm went off this morning at 4:15 am, I was hating myself….so I hit the snooze a few times before I finally gave up with this tug-of-war with the alarm. Now my roommate sleeps like the dead. I nearly had to spend ten minutes trying desperate to wake him. I finally threatened that if he didn’t get up I would throw my steel toe boot at him. He got up after that remark and began getting himself together. I intern made some coffee and breakfast for my boyfriend and other roommate. I figured since I never do that I be generous enough this morning.
So off to the hospital we go. He goes in and I’m here to wait for this whole ordeal to be over. I love how while you are waiting in the waiting room there is always interesting material to read. As I sat on the couch, I turn my head to the left and see this small green binder labeled "All About The Colon". Of course I found it only comical that I flip through the pages. This book actually had just about every procedure performed on the colon explaining in thorough details…right down to the materials. I almost felt like it was a recipe book labeling each step graphically. I thought sheesh…this is going to happen to my roommate? Sucks to be him!
Two hours later he’s finished and the nurse is calling me back to go over all instructions of what he "can" and "can not do" for the next 24 hours. I did my best to be as serious as I could, but nearly lost it when made the comment "Now he will be experience large amounts of gas…but this is totally normal" I chuckled at this comment only to reply with " Well I appreciate this information, but this isn’t unusual to me. He has no problem passing gas" She laughed back at my response and continued down the list.
After all instructions, they rolled him out to me and I brought him back to the house. I tell you men just don’t do well missing food for an entire day. Immediately once he entered the house is started to inhale food. Almost felt like I was witnessing a bulimic female scarfing down as much food in less than 2 minutes. He ate a kit kat, cinnamon roll, and was in the process of making two huge sandwiches. All I could say was damn that first shit isn’t going to be pretty. So I Ieft shortly after that, to head back to work . Once I got home he was no where in site. I guess he ate himself into a slumber. Infact this whole night he hasn’t gotten up at all. Which brings me to my next topic…
I’m an animal lover of three felines. My boyfriend and I have recently taken the third on in roughly three weeks ago. He’s a cute grey kitty that is very affectionate even if he does eat a lot. Before he arrived on our door step he must have gotten in a rough patch with some other cats. He has a grey spot on one eye that will probably remain a scar forever and had some eye problems. My vet looked him over and said it "could" be a form of feline herpes. I didn’t even think it was possible for cats to have such a disease. So for now we’ve been administrating drops into his eyes to see if it will help. So far we’ve seen improvement and hardly any yellow mucous drainage. However; though my year old cat [Scout] wasn’t feeling too well tonight. My boyfriend and I couldn’t find her around the house. We searched to find that our poor kitty with both eyes swollen shut and yellow mucous around the eyes. This bothered my boyfriend instantly. He’s very much attached to our cats and doesn’t like to see them in pain. So we rush off to the emergency vet to see what’s going on.
The on call vet looks her over and informs us she has upper respiratory conjuntivitis and that it could be a sign of feline herpes. She says not too worry that it’s pretty common in cats. I was thinking to myself "GREAT! I hope she doesn’t contain some awful disease…And thank you very much for sugar coating it by telling me it’s common". So $206.11 later we walk out of the vet for her to have two shots, eye ointment, and an antibiotic. It was an expense I was planning on, but the main concern was getting her better. So we’ll see in a couple days if she starts feeling better. I feel so bad for her. It’s a good thing I don’t have any children now, because I couldn’t handle watching my child suffer. So for now I’ll keep close watch on her and see what tomorrow brings. Oh the joy!