Comments on: Tig’s travails http://www.yourish.com/2008/08/14/5223 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Pamela http://www.yourish.com/2008/08/14/5223/comment-page-1#comment-32947 Pamela Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:17:04 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5223#comment-32947 Meryl My Orange and Sneakers cats both had cancer. They lived each day getting loves and scritches. A lot of lap naps. Both let me know when it was time. Miss Gracie will continue to live her life as any orange cat does. In her own style. Pamela Meryl

My Orange and Sneakers cats both had cancer. They lived each day getting loves and scritches. A lot of lap naps.
Both let me know when it was time.

Miss Gracie will continue to live her life as any orange cat does. In her own style.

Pamela

]]> By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2008/08/14/5223/comment-page-1#comment-32938 Meryl Yourish Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:35:47 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5223#comment-32938 Well, it may be a downhill slide for Gracie. She's lost a little weight, her heart murmur is up, and now the vet says she may be showing signs of cancer. I had him do a blood draw, and her calcium levels are up, he says. Upshot of it all is: I'm going to let things progress naturally, and see what happens. I'm not too averse to meds for her heart murmur, if it's only a pill a day. We got her through her digestive problems with steroids. But if she has cancer... what's the point? Well, it may be a downhill slide for Gracie. She’s lost a little weight, her heart murmur is up, and now the vet says she may be showing signs of cancer. I had him do a blood draw, and her calcium levels are up, he says.

Upshot of it all is: I’m going to let things progress naturally, and see what happens. I’m not too averse to meds for her heart murmur, if it’s only a pill a day. We got her through her digestive problems with steroids.

But if she has cancer… what’s the point?

]]> By: Mog http://www.yourish.com/2008/08/14/5223/comment-page-1#comment-32935 Mog Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:59:57 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5223#comment-32935 Sometimes expensive medical procedures and meds even cause more suffering than not doing anything. Sides, she may surprise you and live a long life. May Tig have an uneventful recovery from his snippage. Prayers, skritches, bellyrubs and love to them both. Sometimes expensive medical procedures and meds even cause more suffering than not doing anything. Sides, she may surprise you and live a long life.

May Tig have an uneventful recovery from his snippage.

Prayers, skritches, bellyrubs and love to them both.

]]> By: Rahel http://www.yourish.com/2008/08/14/5223/comment-page-1#comment-32929 Rahel Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:45:17 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5223#comment-32929 Refua shlema to Gracie... and to Tig, too. I send them both my very best skritches and bellyrubs. Refua shlema to Gracie… and to Tig, too.

I send them both my very best skritches and bellyrubs.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2008/08/14/5223/comment-page-1#comment-32927 Meryl Yourish Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:15:26 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5223#comment-32927 Harrison, did the AKC let you register the pups? My friend Sarah's Dachsund was a daddy at 11. Great pups, too. Harrison, did the AKC let you register the pups?

My friend Sarah’s Dachsund was a daddy at 11. Great pups, too.

]]> By: Stretch http://www.yourish.com/2008/08/14/5223/comment-page-1#comment-32924 Stretch Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:45:56 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5223#comment-32924 Poor Tig. We guys always twinge when hearing 'bout "the snip." Gracie's life style doesn't seem the type that would be too affected by a heart murmur. Poor Tig. We guys always twinge when hearing ’bout “the snip.” Gracie’s life style doesn’t seem the type that would be too affected by a heart murmur.

]]> By: Harrison http://www.yourish.com/2008/08/14/5223/comment-page-1#comment-32923 Harrison Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:10:57 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5223#comment-32923 My dad developed a mild heart murmur in later life and still kept going--includin' a last big fling at age 13. (When AHM tried to register the litter, the AKC wrote back basically sayin' "Do you know how old this dog is?"!) Anyway, you're doin' the right thing, IMHO. Except for diabetes treatments, we've never had much luck prolongin' lives by shovin' pills down throats. Congrats on the condo. Hope the fe-lyings settle in okay. My dad developed a mild heart murmur in later life and still kept going–includin’ a last big fling at age 13. (When AHM tried to register the litter, the AKC wrote back basically sayin’ “Do you know how old this dog is?”!)

Anyway, you’re doin’ the right thing, IMHO. Except for diabetes treatments, we’ve never had much luck prolongin’ lives by shovin’ pills down throats.

Congrats on the condo. Hope the fe-lyings settle in okay.

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