Schools out for summer!

Nod to Alice Cooper for the title of this post but thats not entirely true. School is out for 2 weeks=P I did remarkably well! I got a B in calc which I worked very very hard for. I also got an A in my tech course which I didnt have to work as hard for, lol. Thankfully, that stuff comes much easier to me.

Good(?) new with Grimmy. I took him to see Dr. O Thursday for what I was convinced was for enlarged lymph nodes. Naturally, I thought the worst. My brain instantly jumped to lymphoma or Bartonella (which wouldnt have been awful, just a long duration of medication).

Turns out after doing a fine needle aspirate (he was good for it, such a brave kitty) it turns out I just have a really fat cat. Yeah. She aspirated what I instantly saw as fat on the slide. Apparantly, the "enlarged" I was talking about was a fat roll above his calf muscle. god.

He weighed 16lbs! That is a 5lb gain since December when we got him. Needless to say, he has been put on a very strict diet which he is taking pretty well. I switched him over to Purina OM since its a higher protein than Sciene Diet light which is less calories but more carbs. Since his problem is that he is always screaming for food, I figured a higher protein will keep him fuller faster. So far, so good.

Before I can even think about declawing, I need to get him back to a normal weight so he's not bearing all that extra on his paws postop. I plan on weighing him once a month to see our progress.

In other news, I had to euthanize Bruce the bat =P Poor little thing was wasting away. I have a few theories, he may have been an older bat which I suspect do to his wing condition. May be it was renal? liver? He never ate whole mealworms and I concocted every recipe from the book and then some trying to find something that he would like. He ended up liking A/D which is completely wrong. I would gradually add blended mealworms to it but he always knew something was up and would refuse it. I just hope that I did everything that I could. I think I did but I agonize over every bat that dosent make it to see if I could have done something different.

I plan on spending the weekend tackling more spring cleaning and catching up on my ever expanding to-do list.