Update on Joy – when I got home from the library on Saturday after doing my “comics thing” here, I had a message on my answering machine from the vet. Joy’s culture didn’t “grow”. I don’t remember exactly what he was looking for to “grow”, but anyway, the non-growth showed that she would benefit from being on an antibiotic. If I could get there before noon, I could pick it up that day. Otherwise, I’d have to wait until today to get it. Well, the vet is about 15 minutes away (there area couple vets closer, but I chose to use this vet because he gave me a FANTASTIC deal last year when I had 6 girl cats who needed to be spayed. He did all 6 for $600 and threw in the feline virus vaccines at no added charge. Also no office call charge. All the other vets wanted around $145 per cat and vaccines not included. Plus there was an office call charge from each of those.
Anyway, I did have to work that day too, but I wanted her to start the medicine ASAP, so jumped in the car, raced to the vet and got her medicine, then raced back home, gave the medicine to Joy (Clavamox), stuck the bottle in the fridge, packed a lunch for work, grabbed a quick bite and took off for work. The vet also gave me pills for Joy that are supposed to reduce her urge to urinate so often so she isn’t straining so much.
Actually, the other day when I said she had stones, what I meant to say was that she had crystals. The vet gave be several pamphlets about cats’ urinary health and there was something interesting in one of them that said struvite crystals (which Joy has) are most common in Siamese cats. Joy’s mom is a white cat with gray spots but she has Siamese markings and coloring so Daddy must be Siamese. It also said that urinary stones in general are most common in Persian, Himalayan and Russian Blue cats and calcium oxalate stones are more common in Persian, Himalayan and Burmese.
She seems to be doing better already. Thank you to everyone for your advice & comments.
Update on Joy – when I got home from the library on Saturday after doing my “comics thing” here, I had a message on my answering machine from the vet. Joy’s culture didn’t “grow”. I don’t remember exactly what he was looking for to “grow”, but anyway, the non-growth showed that she would benefit from being on an antibiotic. If I could get there before noon, I could pick it up that day. Otherwise, I’d have to wait until today to get it. Well, the vet is about 15 minutes away (there area couple vets closer, but I chose to use this vet because he gave me a FANTASTIC deal last year when I had 6 girl cats who needed to be spayed. He did all 6 for $600 and threw in the feline virus vaccines at no added charge. Also no office call charge. All the other vets wanted around $145 per cat and vaccines not included. Plus there was an office call charge from each of those.
Anyway, I did have to work that day too, but I wanted her to start the medicine ASAP, so jumped in the car, raced to the vet and got her medicine, then raced back home, gave the medicine to Joy (Clavamox), stuck the bottle in the fridge, packed a lunch for work, grabbed a quick bite and took off for work. The vet also gave me pills for Joy that are supposed to reduce her urge to urinate so often so she isn’t straining so much.
Actually, the other day when I said she had stones, what I meant to say was that she had crystals. The vet gave be several pamphlets about cats’ urinary health and there was something interesting in one of them that said struvite crystals (which Joy has) are most common in Siamese cats. Joy’s mom is a white cat with gray spots but she has Siamese markings and coloring so Daddy must be Siamese. It also said that urinary stones in general are most common in Persian, Himalayan and Russian Blue cats and calcium oxalate stones are more common in Persian, Himalayan and Burmese.
She seems to be doing better already. Thank you to everyone for your advice & comments.