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Steve took Matthew to drive at the high school. Joshua rides his bike.

I wasn't feeling too good when I got home from Matthew's Latin class. Matthew got my cuff and said “Take your blood pressure.” (I haven't been, because my new doc said I was taking it too often.) So I did and it was 96/64. Not too bad, but I'm not used to it being that low so it was making me feel really exhausted.

I called the doctor's office and they took me off another pill! That leaves me on just one pill and the patch. I personally believe it's this stronger patch that did the trick and the pills aren't doing anything. Nothing changed till they put me on this double strength patch.

The pill they took me off of was making my feet turn red and swell...I looked like I had sausages for toes (and you know how vain I am about my feet...I was mortified!) So I'm pretty happy and hope my pressure stays down. Well, mostly at least...I expect I'll still have spikes.

Also, he referred me to an endocrinologist.

Evenin’ folks. Didn’t get back from thevets until almost 7:00 p.m. So we had dinner and Luke’s heading to bed.

Abby is still with us. I wish I could understand more of what thevet was saying, but here’s what I caught. She was dehydrated, which we knew. So they sedated her to do blood work and gave her some fluids. It was a progressive thing, depending on the blood work, we’d decided whether or not to go with the x-rays.

The blood work show several high levels. I can’t translate them all. Her lymph counts were high. Her “sugar” (or whatever they call it in cats) was high and her red blood cell counts were low. But he indicated that none of them were abnormally high. He didn’t find any obstructions through a general exam. And he said that the leg has a mass of scar tissue, but is otherwise fine.

So while I don’t understand it all, there’s enough in the blood levels to cause concern. He said it could be the beginnings of lymphoma either in the liver or the intestines. Or it could just be an infection (although her temp was normal).

So, he gave her a steroid shot and put her on an antibiotic. We’re to watch her over the next 48-72 hours. If she’s not better, then it’s decision time and the decision will not be the happy one. He was inclined to agree that there’s no need to do a series of tests and possible surgeries for a cat her age.

She’s still rather sedated. But she did manage to crawl out of her crate and get into her bed.