03 Monday Apr 2023
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My girl gets her stitches taken out tomorrow and then we’re just another day or two from finally being able to remove the dread cone for good. She’s been amazing about it but even more than usual Morcilla wants to sit and cuddle on my shoulder and look out the window while I’m working. We’re almost there… 💛🐈⬛
22 Wednesday Mar 2023
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After a sleepless night and fretful morning (me) and a stressful scream-filled taxi ride (Morcilla) we are home. Morcilla is just starting to perk up but is still quite groggy and wobbly. She keeps trying to walk but just ends up rolling over, poor thing. I have the small duvet folded up on the living room floor but she refuses to stay there, stubborn girl that she is, and ends up slipping and sliding all around on the marble floor. So I pick her up and put her back on the duvet and it starts all over again.
Anyhow, she needed six stitches in the end. Sonia had first thought just three but it turned out the lump went much deeper that she realised and she wanted to make sure she got all of it out. And so now we wait and hope it’s benign. I’m taking her back in for a quick check up on Friday morning and then the stitches come out about ten days after that. But for today I am on Morcilla Watch while she gets over the anaesthetic. My baby girl. 💛🐈⬛
08 Wednesday Mar 2023
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Instead of me going into crazy over-protective overdrive re: Morcilla’s small head lump that I noticed a couple of weeks ago I decided to get back in touch with my fab vet Sonia to ask her advice. She’s texted twice now, asking about the lump (which she first diagnosed as a wart, no problem) and also asking if there have been any changes. And no, not really. Not that I can easily tell. But I’m still having occasional pangs of GUILT that maybe if I’d brought Loki in to be tested sooner there may have been a better outcome. On the other hand I don’t want to put Morcilla through an unnecessary procedure (she’d have to be put under to remove the lump for a biopsy). So watching and waiting.
17 Friday Feb 2023
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Back at the vet’s today for Round 3 of The Treatment. I’m very sad to say that Loki really doesn’t seem to be doing well. When I took him in on Monday it was almost an afterthought. Since I had to take Morcilla in so the vet could look at the mysterious lump on her head, which I thought was the real emergency, I thought I would take Loki too as he’d been looking a bit low and I didn’t like how my previous vet handled the last blood test he’d had with them, and so this would be a good opportunity for another check-up and blood test. And now I’m not sure if it was too little too late. Today the vet told me that, given Monday’s blood test results, they were very surprised he’d been mostly asymptomatic. No vomiting, no diarrhea, no blood in stools… AND he was still eating and drinking. Now, not so much. He’s gone off his food, mostly looks tired and sad. I don’t even know what to think or feel right now. Next treatment is on Monday.
Anyhow, this afternoon he was hiding out in my bedroom so I brought him out to be on the sofa near me while I work, but he looked so uncomfortable, all hunched up. Then I took out the summer duvet and made a little nest for him… and he went straight in. Bless. He looks much cosier now. My god, this is so hard, wanting to hope, scared to hope… but for now what I CAN do is keep my boy as comfy as possible and let him know how much he is loved.
08 Wednesday Feb 2023
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Last night I was all snuggled up with Morcilla, doing a bit of Netflixing, and I felt a small lump on the top of her tiny head. She wasn’t keen on letting me have a good look at it, but it seems to be a small round thing, perhaps nothing to worry about, but I am waiting now to hear back from the vet about an appointment. She has to be okay, nothing else would be acceptable. My girl, my heart.
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