Hanging In - Cancer Cat Episode 4

Neelix gets a pill every day except Sunday. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday it is the Palladia, and we have to wear chemo gloves. It's a small pill and not much of a problem. Maybe the feel of the gloves opening his mouth is distracting.

Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, he gets Piroxicam. It is a capsule and not as easy to get down him. One dose turned into a mushy ball before we could get him to swallow it, it had been spit out so often.

He went back to the oncologist today. He weighed in at 9.6 pounds, problematic, because he was 9.94 just two weeks ago and 10.1 six weeks ago. He still seems to eat as much as he always did. He developed a craving for raw catfish, which our oldest female cat likes, so now I have to buy enough for two and he is rejecting his usual food waiting for catfish. The oncologist said the bump on his nose was actually a little smaller and has not broken through into his mouth or eyeball.

My husband thinks he is more "wound up" when he's awake. I think he sleeps more and sleeps sounder than before. I think both of us are exaggerating how he's always been.

2003 when he was one.