swestrup | Better News than Expected.

I finally crashed around 10:00 am this morning, after

taxlady was awake and able to take care of

sucha for a bit, even though I knew she'd be heading into work later. Somehow it was easier to sleep knowing that right at that moment she was being cared for.

I awoke to a surprisingly quiet house.

sucha is sitting calmly downstairs as used to be her normal behaviour, not hiding in the bathtub and meowing as she's done for the last few days. She seems to have drunk a fair amount of water as well.

The news from the Vet, who called while I was asleep, was better than expected.

sucha's liver and kidney's haven't shut down so we can up her dose of anti-inflamatories. They already seem to have helped her as shown by her more normal behaviour right now. The Vet said they should also help her be able to move her tongue for drinking. When asked about pain killers we were told that the anti-inflamatories dull pain as well, and should be good enough for the moment.

The fact that she's responding to the treatment and acting more like her old self means that we won't have to have her put down this weekend as I had feared and had half-resigned myself to. We've been told that she'll probably last another month or so, before the cancer is so advanced that nothing works any more.

I'm not really sure how this affect plans that

taxlady and I made earlier to go visit a sick aunt of mine sometime in September, as it would mean leaving the cats alone for 3 or 4 days. Before

sucha got so sick, it seemed like a reasonable plan. Now I'm not so sure. On the other hand, its not clear if my aunt (who I haven't seen since I was 15) will last until next summer, which would be the next opportunity to visit. I guess that right now we'll just have to take this one day at a time.