There is something wrong with Blomma

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Thankyou for continuing to update.
I am glad to read that you have found a more suitable Chinese takeaway and that your pee tables are well received at the vets.
It's great news that Berta is still doing well, and causing mischief even now!
Good luck with working out your new pill routine for Blomma, it made my head get a bit trying to work it out, but fingers crossed for not needing to go back to the vets for 2 weeks.
 
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chaps89 said:
Thankyou for continuing to update.
I am glad to read that you have found a more suitable Chinese takeaway and that your pee tables are well received at the vets.
It's great news that Berta is still doing well, and causing mischief even now!
Good luck with working out your new pill routine for Blomma, it made my head get a bit trying to work it out, but fingers crossed for not needing to go back to the vets for 2 weeks.
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I actually had a good thought about next weeks pill schedule this morning, and to be honest, I feel a bit hesitant about my ability to make it all work out. But I'm also hesitant about if she really can tolerate this dose 3 times per day even if we make sure it is 8 hours between the pills, judging by how it has affected her pee amounts today. So, I have some things to think about.
I'll keep an eye on my tables, and maybe I'll call to see if I can't talk to the veterinarian sometime during next week, before making the dosage change.

Anyhow, my pee amount obsession seems a bit contagious. The other night after my mum had said Good Night, she suddenly shouted my name, only to ask "Surely much smaller or larger breeds must have different sized bladders to Lapphunds, how much do you think it affects their pee amounts?"

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It was time for a new check up of Blomma's Diabetes Insipidus today, and as I expected judging by her pee amounts, her urine is still too diluted.

Having looked at the last two week's pee tables, the veterinarian thinks like me, that it seems Blomma responds more on the morning dose, than the later doses. And that perhaps she needs to get different doses during the day, but the veterinarian wanted to discuss this with the other veterinarians first, to get their input.
She will call later today, or on Monday, and until then I shall continue with the current medicine dose. But the hunt for the right medicine dosage continues.


Today was 5 weeks since Berta our Cornish Rex got her aggressive mammary cancer diagnosis. Last Sunday we decided that I should call the veterinarian next day to get an appointment to euthanise Berta this morning, at the same time as getting to talk to my veterinarian about Blomma, and her Diabetes Insipidus.

We weren't sure whether the nuances we thought we had started to notice where real, and indicating that the cancer was spreading, or whether it was just imaginary nuances that we noticed because we were worried. But we didn't want to risk that she went downhill during the weekend to come, when our usual veterinarian clinic is closed. I presume most of you know how they sometimes seem to "save" getting acutely ill to weekends, and nights.

After I made the call, we've had our doubts. She seemed to be mostly her usual self, trimming her claws on the cat trees daily, moving like a sun clock through the house on sunny days, demanding to know where her sun was on cloudy days...
But then yesterday she ate a bit of breakfast, and after that she didn't have much appetite.
The sun was shining, and she did sunbath in her usual around lunchtime favourite sunbathing spot, but unlike how she usually stayed there for hours until the sun was better in another window, yesterday she only stayed there awhile, before she went back to my mum's bed.

She ate some Dreamies, and other treats late last evening, and played a little with her Yeowww. She ate even more Dreamies, and other treats this morning, before meowing with a few seconds interval, in protest over being in the transport box, the whole way to the veterinarian.
I would so much have wanted to have more than these over 14 ½ years we've had together, but it feels as if it was a good timing that we had an appointment to euthanise her today.

Think that a barely 3,5 kg little cat could leave such a big empty hole in our lives.

Berta in yesterday's Autumn sunshine
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I want to end this post by telling you about a tradition that me, and my mum, started when my first Buhund Nessie died 2005. After that my veterinarian had euthanised Nessie early one morning, after that she had gotten acutely ill during the night, and didn't charge us anything for it, we baked Sponge cake. The next day we went back to the veterinarian clinic, and gave them the Sponge cake as a Thank you for their help.

After that, it sort of became a tradition for us, on the less than a handful times we've needed to euthanise pets since then. So yesterday evening me, and my mum, baked Sponge cake.
I gave one to the nurse behind the counter this morning saying I hoped they would enjoy it during their lunch break, because it can't be easy for them to have to euthanise animals, and they deserve something nice.

Before I left, one of the nurses thanked me (by the way, she wasn't the only one), saying she'd already eaten her piece. I don't remember exactly what more she said, but it made me think it sounded as if they'd mentioned to each other that it wasn't the first time they'd gotten Sponge cake due to euthanising one of my pets.
 
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I'm so sorry to read about Berta.
Reading your post she went well loved and before her health deteriorated too much, she was a very lucky cat.
Your sponge cake tradition is a lovely idea :)

Good luck with Blomma and her medication adjustments, it's interesting how she reacts differently to it depending on the time of day, great that the pee tables have been useful
 
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I’m so sorry to read about beautiful Berta FL, she sounds to have had a fabulous life with you and was clearly very much loved as all your animals are. They always leave such a huge gap in our lives...

An interesting update on Blomma, it will be good to hear what the vets come back and say when they have discussed amongst themselves.
 
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Sending my sympathies FL. Berta had the best life with you, and you loved so much you let her go before she suffered. RIP little Berta.
Baking a cake for the veterinary staff is a lovely tradition.
As for Blomma, perhaps she is a ‘morning dog’ like I am a ‘morning person’. My metabolism is definitely faster at that time of day.
Good luck ?
 
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I am so sorry about Berta , she was beautiful and you gave her a wonderful life. I think it is a lovely idea to take cake for the veterinary staff, I am sure they really appreciate it.
I really hope you manage to get Blomma's medication finally sorted.
 
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Thank you so much for your condolences, it is heartwarming, comforting, and means more than I can say. <3
And thank you to those who Liked the post, that means a lot, too. <3

The house have been so quiet today. Cilla's (black and white moggy) discrete meowing is nowhere close to Berta's foghorn meowing. My God so many times I've thought bad things on the occasions when I've been woken up by that foghorn one or two hours before my alarm went off, because Berta happened to be awake, and wanted breakfast. And my God, how much I miss hearing her now.

But though heartache, life goes on, and so does my Lapphund pee amount collecting, measuring, and comparing. After having been out to look at, and briefly discuss their afternoon pees (Blomma's was a little too small to be ideal, but the colour wasn't as diluted as most of her pees are), as we where going in my mum said to me:

"How much do you think a cat pees?"
Me: "Funny you would say that, just some week ago I was wondering if it would be possible to teach the cats to pee in containers"
Mum: "I think that would be to take this a step too far"
Me: "But agree it would be interesting to know how much they pee?"
Mum: "Yes, it would"

I'm glad Cilla doesn't understand what we where talking about, I don't think she would approve.
 
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Okay, so the veterinarian called this afternoon, and my head is spinning. After talking to the other veterinarians, they concluded they hadn't treated, or heard of, a dog with Diabetes Insipidus reacting like Blomma on the medication. Either dogs reacts to the medication, or they don't, not just partly like Blomma.

They agreed it looks like she reacts more to the morning medication dose, than the other doses, but at the same time feels that the 3/4 pills which she gets now, should be her maximum dose. They're now wondering if she perhaps doesn't have Diabetes Insipidus after all!,

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And they want to test her to see if she have hidden Addison's! I thought they had sort of tested that when they tested her for Cushings, because they mentioned kortisol levels, but it turns out she didn't have an ACTH test, without some dexamethasomething test, which only shows if they have Cushings. Unlike the ACTH test, which can show if they have either Cushings, or Addisons.

Like with Cushings, Blomma doesn't have any of the other signs of Addison's, other than drinking, and peeing, too much. But when the veterinarian asked what I wanted to do, I of course wanted them to check Blomma for Addison's. They had a time already tomorrow, early afternoon.
But the veterinarian also wanted me to do a bit different 12 hours water deprivation test.
Remove the water at 18 o'clock (which I did).
Let her out for a pee around the same time (we came home from the daily long walk a little before 18).
Let her out for a last pee as close to before I'm going to bed as possible (this is the new thing), doing it around her last medicine dose at 01 o'clock was okay.
Getting up, and collecting a pee sample to take with me to the veterinarian, at 06 o'clock!

Then she can get water again, and breakfast at 08, but after that, nothing more to eat except the medicine at 09, before going to the veterinarian early afternoon.

Oh, and it's Tuesday tomorrow, so it's also time for me to do the weekly food shopping early in the morning due to the Coronavirus. And we had written a bit larger shopping list than usual. Mum has offered to give them breakfast, and give Blomma her medicine, if I'm not home in time for those things. But it's easy giving Blomma her pills, you just open her mouth, drop the 3/4 pills down into it, and she swallows.

Mum is less confident about having to give Jonna some eye-salve in her left eye. I haven't told you all, last week I also later had to call, and get an appointment to Jonna, because she'd managed to get some junk into her left eye.

So last Friday morning, after euthanising Berta, I took her out to my dad in the car park, and he drove home with her. I went back in, and talked to the veterinarian about Blomma's latest pee sample result. Then I was allowed to continue to wait in the same room, for another veterinarian to come less than an hour later to look at Jonna's eye.
And I was sent home with eye-salve to give Jonna 3 times per day, for 10 days. To make it easier, I chose to give her eye medicine at the same 3 times per day as Blomma's medicine. Which is now making mum worried, because even though Jonna is as sweet, and nice as any dog could be, her squeeze-eye-shut-muscles is in excellent shape.

At least I was able to cancel Beata's appointment to check up on the limping she suddenly developed on a walk last week, because as soon as I had made the call, she stopped limping. But I really feel that it is a bit much on my animal front at the moment. I'm just waiting for something to happen to Cilla the moggy as well.
And what if Blomma doesn't have hidden Addison's either, then what?

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If anyone have had the energy to read all the way to the end, I can only offer these two photos I took of my bitches waiting at the veterinarian clinic, as a thank you for taking the time.

Not really stressed by being at the veterinarian clinic (Blomma at the front, Beata at the back, Jonna to the right) :

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Still not stressed, even though I was getting us ready to leave (Jonna, Beata, and Blomma) :

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Oh FL you really are going through it at the moment you poor thing, you are coping with it all so well! I’m surprised you haven’t just decided to set up house at the vets, you are there so often!

I do hope the latest test gives an answer for the vets, it is so frustrating when they cannot find the solution - Ace is on 3 gabapentin tablets a day and he is still lame at the moment, even the super vet is stuck for an answer why that is ☹️

I’ll keep everything crossed for a good outcome for the tests, and I hope Jonna’s eye gets better soon
 
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Oh heck. The eye ointment can wait a bit. When I've had to do anything with mine its had to fit round work hours and its always been ok.
But gosh I am really sending you some good vibes for the beasties. They're lucky to have you x
 
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