No more zombies

Now that Titan is on insulin he's losing interest in some of former pursuits, like laying on the floor making me think he's dead. He's now able to jump up onto my bed all by himself so I don't have to lift him up anymore.

Sadly he's not as excited as he was to sit in Cam's lap with his front legs sticking straight out and pretend to be Michael Jackson in the Thriller video. He used to be quite good at it but now seems to feel its beneath him. Sigh.

I like the looks of this school

http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com/

They have some interesting things going on.

And that's about all I have to say except the diabetic cat isn't eating enough so we had to drop his insulin down a bit. He's asleep on my feet now, doing his job, which is keeping my feet warm. It's meant to snow tonight and tomorrow so I'm grateful he's not too ill to fulfill his duties.

My cat is very annoying

I've got an old grey cat called Titan. Someone abandoned him in the woods behind the vet clinic in Crofton right before Christmas, 1999, which is when we got him. His estimated age at that time was four, so he's getting up there now. He's started to show signs of his age over the last year or so - limping, not grooming and peeing like mad, but we haven't been able to get a urinalysis because he's wily.

Last night I locked him in the bathroom with a special non-absorbent litter so we could bring a urine sample with us. I put him in there at six pm and he still hadn't peed at 10:30 this morning when we put him in the car to go to the vet.

We were taking both cats and all four rats so four of us went, Cam, Cullen, Cullen's friend who I won't name, and myself. Cullen's friend held Titan for the trip as he should have been the easiest since he relaxes in the car and doesn't fuss.

Except he let loose after about twenty minutes in the car, pooping and peeing everywhere, especially on Cullen's friend, who was wearing his lucky pants.

Score Titan one, us zero.

Migraine town

I went to see my hematologist yesterday and had to wait for about an hour in a room with a flickering florescent light. I should have asked for a different room but I thought I wouldn't have to wait that long. End result, migraine all day today. Then I took Cam to his doctor for a sinus thing and the power kept going out so the florescent light kept flickering. Sigh.

Interestingly the Wii fit verified that my balance gets out of whack when my brain flares up. I took my daily balance test and scored a mere 35%, half of what I got yesterday. My Wii Fit age also jumped up ten years but I guess that's to be expected.

My PT/INR was weird again, back down too low to 1.3. This time I have an idea why as I'm now taking synthetic thyroid hormones, which interfere with the action of the coumadin. Hopefully I'll get it all straightened out after increasing my dose by fifty percent.

Sadly two of our rats have developed mammary tumors. This is particularly distressing because I've had them on this plan I call the happy rat plan where we've given them foods rich in antioxidants and avoided treats that I thought would be unhealthy for them. The two dark brown hooded rats are still doing quite well. One of those girls is about six months younger than the other three so I would hope she didn't get sick at the same time. Hopefully these guys will stay free of the fast acting brain cancer our last two girls had. I'm not brave enough to face any more pet losses.

Our cat Titan is getting too old and cranky to groom himself so I bought him a brush and a comb. Cam has also been giving him a shower or a bath once a week, which is good for allergies but usually kind of hard to manage. I don't know if Titan is just mellowing out or is feeling too feeble to complain strenously. No bloodshed so far so Cam can continue being much braver than I.