Since people were asking...
Feb. 29th, 2008 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bzarcherAlex and I actually did just talk about Onyx today.
(12:13:52 PM) bzarcher: Which of us was getting the Revolution for Onyx and patches? I know we found it online but I forget who was going to get it.
(12:15:25 PM) felislachesis: gah, I don't remember
(12:15:41 PM) bzarcher: OK. Let's talk about it tonight the.
(12:15:51 PM) felislachesis: ok
(12:16:22 PM) bzarcher: Because I am increasingly thinking that if we finish giving Onyx meds, keep him on the revolution, and he seems to be acting about the same as he has for the past 6 months? We're pretty much where we'd be regardless of spending another $900 on the vet.
(12:16:37 PM) bzarcher: (And, yes, we have at this point spent $900 on the vet. Slightly more than that, in fact.)
(12:16:57 PM) felislachesis: OUCH :(
(12:17:11 PM) bzarcher: *nod*
(12:17:31 PM) bzarcher: (My bonus basically went to paying off the credit card I've been putting the vet on.)
(12:17:38 PM) felislachesis: *nods* I can understand
(12:17:40 PM) felislachesis: man I'm sorry
(12:17:54 PM) bzarcher: It's OK. I'd far rather have to use my bonus on paying the card down than have a dead cat.
(12:18:02 PM) felislachesis: *nods*
(12:18:04 PM) bzarcher: But at this point, he's not really changing, y'know?
(12:18:12 PM) bzarcher: He isn't getting better, he isn't getting worse. He just is.
(12:18:18 PM) felislachesis: yeah
(12:18:23 PM) felislachesis: he is getting heavier
(12:18:42 PM) bzarcher: *nods* So I think we just do what we've been doing, and only go back to the vet if his condition goes down again.
(12:18:56 PM) felislachesis: sounds like a plan
tl, dr;
After another course of antibiotics, trying different food, and switching to Revolution now instead of Frontline, Onyx really hasn't changed. He's gotten a little heavier, his activity level is staying the same, and he's generally just being a cat around the house when he isn't staring murder at me for jacking him with antibiotics.
So, we're going to finish this course of meds, keep them on the Revolution, keep them on the current food, and go from there. Pouring more money down the vet for no apparent changes in his health or wellbeing just doesn't make sense.
If he starts sliding again, we go back, and depending, we have a conversation about his long term health.
(12:13:52 PM) bzarcher: Which of us was getting the Revolution for Onyx and patches? I know we found it online but I forget who was going to get it.
(12:15:25 PM) felislachesis: gah, I don't remember
(12:15:41 PM) bzarcher: OK. Let's talk about it tonight the.
(12:15:51 PM) felislachesis: ok
(12:16:22 PM) bzarcher: Because I am increasingly thinking that if we finish giving Onyx meds, keep him on the revolution, and he seems to be acting about the same as he has for the past 6 months? We're pretty much where we'd be regardless of spending another $900 on the vet.
(12:16:37 PM) bzarcher: (And, yes, we have at this point spent $900 on the vet. Slightly more than that, in fact.)
(12:16:57 PM) felislachesis: OUCH :(
(12:17:11 PM) bzarcher: *nod*
(12:17:31 PM) bzarcher: (My bonus basically went to paying off the credit card I've been putting the vet on.)
(12:17:38 PM) felislachesis: *nods* I can understand
(12:17:40 PM) felislachesis: man I'm sorry
(12:17:54 PM) bzarcher: It's OK. I'd far rather have to use my bonus on paying the card down than have a dead cat.
(12:18:02 PM) felislachesis: *nods*
(12:18:04 PM) bzarcher: But at this point, he's not really changing, y'know?
(12:18:12 PM) bzarcher: He isn't getting better, he isn't getting worse. He just is.
(12:18:18 PM) felislachesis: yeah
(12:18:23 PM) felislachesis: he is getting heavier
(12:18:42 PM) bzarcher: *nods* So I think we just do what we've been doing, and only go back to the vet if his condition goes down again.
(12:18:56 PM) felislachesis: sounds like a plan
tl, dr;
After another course of antibiotics, trying different food, and switching to Revolution now instead of Frontline, Onyx really hasn't changed. He's gotten a little heavier, his activity level is staying the same, and he's generally just being a cat around the house when he isn't staring murder at me for jacking him with antibiotics.
So, we're going to finish this course of meds, keep them on the Revolution, keep them on the current food, and go from there. Pouring more money down the vet for no apparent changes in his health or wellbeing just doesn't make sense.
If he starts sliding again, we go back, and depending, we have a conversation about his long term health.
