Kitty spa (5/12/15)
Cuffy is headed to the spa tomorrow morning, where he'll spend the next four or so days before coming back home. Actually, it's the kitty hospital, to get his I-131 treatment, and he'll be home as soon as his radioactivity reaches safe levels. Even two weeks after coming home we have to take special precautions--no extended lap-sitting, and we have to hang onto his soiled litter for two weeks for the radioactivity to break down before throwing it away.
Poor little boy--I HATE him being gone because I'm afraid he'll hate it. But it's the gold standard of treatments, and allegedly cures hyperthyroidism, so that little problem will be fixed. Of course we'll still have his kidney disease to contend with, but one thing at a time...
I bought him matching kitty beds and have been keeping one of them in the laundry basket to soak up our scents. One of them goes with him to the kitty spa so he'll have something from home with him. They throw that out when he leaves, since it'll be radioactive, but he'll come home to the other identical one. This gold one is the keeper--the silver one (not shown :) goes with him tomorrow,
Kitty spa (5/12/15)
Cuffy is headed to the spa tomorrow morning, where he'll spend the next four or so days before coming back home. Actually, it's the kitty hospital, to get his I-131 treatment, and he'll be home as soon as his radioactivity reaches safe levels. Even two weeks after coming home we have to take special precautions--no extended lap-sitting, and we have to hang onto his soiled litter for two weeks for the radioactivity to break down before throwing it away.
Poor little boy--I HATE him being gone because I'm afraid he'll hate it. But it's the gold standard of treatments, and allegedly cures hyperthyroidism, so that little problem will be fixed. Of course we'll still have his kidney disease to contend with, but one thing at a time...
I bought him matching kitty beds and have been keeping one of them in the laundry basket to soak up our scents. One of them goes with him to the kitty spa so he'll have something from home with him. They throw that out when he leaves, since it'll be radioactive, but he'll come home to the other identical one. This gold one is the keeper--the silver one (not shown :) goes with him tomorrow,