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vet visit (1 of 2)
Erik had his check-up tonight. His weight hasn't changed much since July; I thought for sure he was up to 8 pounds, but their scale says 7 pounds 6 ounces. But the vet is satisfied with how much he's eating, so I'm not going to worry about that.
She was going to do a fairly complete blood test anyway (to check on his other problems), and then during the exam she heard an arrhythmia in his heart. This is new. She said she doesn't expect to find an answer in the bloodwork (though we could get lucky); this usually means a muscular problem. Oh goodie. She's going to talk to an expert while we wait for the tests to come back.
I'm no expert, but Google took me to this fairly-informative article about one common (?) cause of this. (I haven't been able to back-track to other causes yet -- obviously don't have the right mix of query terms yet.)
Baldur and Embla have their check-ups tomorrow, assuming I succeed in capturing both of them. I have a new catnip toy in pursuit of this goal. :-) When I came home from the store yesterday and set the bags down, all the cats came running and they made a beeline for one bag. I thought they'd found the fish, but they'd found the toy sealed in plastic. I couldn't smell the catnip holding it right up to my nose; they detected it from rather far away. So it's safely put away until tomorrow, when I hope to use it as a magnet.
She was going to do a fairly complete blood test anyway (to check on his other problems), and then during the exam she heard an arrhythmia in his heart. This is new. She said she doesn't expect to find an answer in the bloodwork (though we could get lucky); this usually means a muscular problem. Oh goodie. She's going to talk to an expert while we wait for the tests to come back.
I'm no expert, but Google took me to this fairly-informative article about one common (?) cause of this. (I haven't been able to back-track to other causes yet -- obviously don't have the right mix of query terms yet.)
Baldur and Embla have their check-ups tomorrow, assuming I succeed in capturing both of them. I have a new catnip toy in pursuit of this goal. :-) When I came home from the store yesterday and set the bags down, all the cats came running and they made a beeline for one bag. I thought they'd found the fish, but they'd found the toy sealed in plastic. I couldn't smell the catnip holding it right up to my nose; they detected it from rather far away. So it's safely put away until tomorrow, when I hope to use it as a magnet.
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