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Day 840: Latest veterinary visit...
Jul. 6th, 2022 11:55 pmI was still fairly tired today, and while J. drove his parents to Portland and then came back and played Magic for hours, I mostly stayed home and read outside with Azalyn on my lap. I did make it to the library for a quick visit, though, and I did take Jean-Luc to the vet so he can take the fancier flea medicine too.
Jean-Luc is a beautiful, healthy-looking cat, according to the vet, except for his immensity. He weighed 17.2 lbs, and the vet thought 12 lbs would be much better for him. (Ajani and Sorin are around 15-16 lbs, but they're built bigger.) His thought is that wet-food is less caloric. The trick would be to make sure Geordi still gets enough; we'll see.
The particularly concerning part of his exam was that both of Jean-Luc's eyes have small cataracts in them. This could go one of two ways. It could be just a vestige of his early weeks of kittenhood, and stable, staying just like this for the rest of his life. Or it could get worse. I should get him checked again in October. There are, in fact, feline ophthalmologists who do cataract surgery, but the nearest one is about 100 miles away, and according to the Internet, ten years ago it cost something like $3600, and if the cataracts lead to glaucoma they could lose their eyes anyway after the owner spends so much. So we are sure hoping it's just the stable, lifelong-small-cataracts version.
Jean-Luc is a beautiful, healthy-looking cat, according to the vet, except for his immensity. He weighed 17.2 lbs, and the vet thought 12 lbs would be much better for him. (Ajani and Sorin are around 15-16 lbs, but they're built bigger.) His thought is that wet-food is less caloric. The trick would be to make sure Geordi still gets enough; we'll see.
The particularly concerning part of his exam was that both of Jean-Luc's eyes have small cataracts in them. This could go one of two ways. It could be just a vestige of his early weeks of kittenhood, and stable, staying just like this for the rest of his life. Or it could get worse. I should get him checked again in October. There are, in fact, feline ophthalmologists who do cataract surgery, but the nearest one is about 100 miles away, and according to the Internet, ten years ago it cost something like $3600, and if the cataracts lead to glaucoma they could lose their eyes anyway after the owner spends so much. So we are sure hoping it's just the stable, lifelong-small-cataracts version.