tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318326116804763445.post8527726549751780699..comments2019-03-24T13:53:51.863+00:00Comments on The Retired Bridgeburner - Adventures in Fibromyalgia and IC: The Naming of CatsThe Retired Bridgeburnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16022494417614938256noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318326116804763445.post-72082571380338245722015-01-25T11:07:16.577+00:002015-01-25T11:07:16.577+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.The Retired Bridgeburnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16022494417614938256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318326116804763445.post-39821970359201213902015-01-25T11:06:56.562+00:002015-01-25T11:06:56.562+00:00It's great to hear from someone else not put o...It's great to hear from someone else not put off by an animal's health problems! After all, like us, it's not their fault. I wish you all the joy in the world with your feline companions :) xxThe Retired Bridgeburnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16022494417614938256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318326116804763445.post-62338113505082847712015-01-25T11:05:42.801+00:002015-01-25T11:05:42.801+00:00Cheers hun :) xCheers hun :) xThe Retired Bridgeburnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16022494417614938256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318326116804763445.post-20549021218525306542014-11-16T10:12:08.878+00:002014-11-16T10:12:08.878+00:00I love love love this. I can connect with this pos...I love love love this. I can connect with this post on so many levels, it's crazy. My "firstborn" cat, Juneaux (pronounced june-oh) is a street rescue, as all of my cats have been (with the exception of one gloriously fat, painfully shy, very sweet black cat named Coraline), and he suffered some injury before I found him, unbeknownst to me. It damaged the growth plate just beneath his radius bone and so even though the radius grew normally, it couldn't grow *down* because the growth plate was now incapable of growth. It's called "radius curvus" and it IS fixable with surgery, but it's fiendishly expensive and I can't afford it. All this the vet explained to me some months after the initial rescue, when I came in concerned about his crooked foreleg that wasn't really crooked before. Now, looking back, I can see it even in his kitten pictures from just a few days after I picked him up, but as he's gotten older it's gotten more pronounced, and it is obviously painful to him especially when it's cold.<br /><br />I feel like we really understand each other in that regard. There was already a very strong bond and connection, but this just makes it a bit more special. Now one of my two newer cats (we call them "the kittens" still, though they're more like young adults now) is presenting with food allergiesā¦ just like me! Poor little guy. I did have one cat, another street rescue a year or two after Juneaux, that had epilepsy, though it wasn't apparent for a month or two. Apparently cats can sometimes have seizures from time to time and it's "normal", but if it is a more routine thing then it's epilepsy? That's what the vet told me, and he seems to know what he's talking about. None of my other cats have ever had seizures, thank god. It scares the piss out of me every time, and it literally scared the piss out of her every time. I had to give her half a pill twice a day, and when I tried just forcing it down her throat she would spit it back out. I took to grinding it up and mixing it with the gravy from wet cat food, but it was 75/25 on whether she'd eat it or not, or eat all of it, or eat enough of it to get an effective doseā¦ eventually it was too much for me to handle and I had to give her away (especially after I moved halfway across the US--taking her with me in the car!--and into my grandparent's spare bedroom. They've never had a pet in my entire LIFE, so this was new to them.)Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12407466438773284596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8318326116804763445.post-83027928857641225722014-10-26T14:13:23.279+00:002014-10-26T14:13:23.279+00:00I'd never heard of FIV before. He is a handso...I'd never heard of FIV before. He is a handsome boy though :) Glad you decided to give him a chance ^_^Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com