... update on the shaved poodle (UPDATED 03/21/07)

UPDATE - hello all you bloggerpallys. a little depressing of an entry/update today. mr puddins does indeed have cancer. that's an overall statement tho, 'cuz the doc did remove the now-titled-malignant tumor from the outside of his liver, but it's been deemed the type of cancer (tech. term evades me) that goes into the tubes, and spreads fast and is hard to completely irradicate. due to a previous committment, i'm unable to go with wifee to mr puddin's appointment tonight, but she will hear about options, if any, to give puddins the very best days?weeks?years? to his life.

my personal feelings are so torn over this. i've taken the next couple of days off for other reasons and this AM mr puddins suddenly appeared next to me in bed... he sounded the same, happy purrrrrs and kneeding next to my arm, but he's sooo small now, sagging, and his eyes are a little glazed. my gods it kills me to see him this way. 9 years of vibrant, thunderbutt joy from this loverboy, and now he jes' looks like he's in pain. he doesn't deserve this!!! if his quality of life will be severely hindered, i cannot... well... we cannot be selfish! i don't wanna lose my lil' boy, but damnit he deserves better.

aaargh. anyway. stay tuned. more news when i know it. and thank you all for your kind words of support and fuzzie-goodness.

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... um, i meant to say, "mr puddins." really. what a tough lil' bastard he is. makes his daddy proud though, yesh he does! our little 9 year old boy (got the math wrong on my first entry) has pulled through a horrific day yesterday when they found a huge mass resting between his gall bladder and liver from the ultrasound.

the price of a small car later, mr puddins has a 6 inch incision/stitch on his fat bellie, a shaved square on his back where a 'pain patch' (like the nicotin patch, but "funner!") and legs shaved like a voilated poodle where the IV drips went. the mass was a gynormous tumor (gynormous = technical term for f**king huge) that was actually attached to the liver and was causing both the liver and gall bladder to act all hinky. as mentioned in the previous post, mr puddins was jaundiced, had lost about 12 lbs, and had stopped eating; well, the gall bladder issue also explains some painful BRICKS the poor doozer had laid too during the past few weeks... oi vey, what a nightmare. we're still waiting for the biopsy results tho... doc removed all he could, but is skeptical. malignant means mr puddins comes home and lives with us as long as he's got left with pain management. Benign means he comes home and lives with us possibly for friggin' ev-ah! ;)



(exposed bellies are funny)

doc rerouted his liver innards, and 'cuz mr puddins survived the night, he was bumped up to "tough lil' bastard" status at the emergency vet and allowed visitors. we went to see him around 6pm this evening. it was positively heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. mr puddins damned near mauled wifee, begging to be brought home. he took one glance at me and delivered a helluva head-butt and proceeded to flop down in my arms which had encircled him on the check out table. (damned metal tables are cooold!)

his big thing is his purrrs. he purrs when he's mad, sad, happy, hungry, pissy, agitated, when he poops, when he sleeps, when he's curled up with wifee, when he's wrapped around my head, when he's got a vet's thermometer shoved up his waz-hoozits, and more...! he purred SO LOUDLY when he saw us. it was almost like he was saying, "mom? dad? i'm gonna be okay... thanks."

actual translation is more like, "mom, dad, get me the f**k outta here!" but we love him all the same. so yeah, our cat looks like a shaved poodle. i can't wait till he gets home so i can point and make fun of him... ahhhh, the good 'ol times... the inspiration for this very blog's creation is coming home soon! eeep!