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Dear Michelle
Sending prayers and positive vibes your and
sweet little Simon's way. I'm not surprised you're finding it hard to
concentrate. (I would be more surprised if the opposite was the case.) Please
know I'm rooting for Simon--he is one astonishing little kitty.
take care, love and hugs, Kerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Simon Hi. Hard to say. He came upstairs for a while, which he had not done
for a few days, but has been sleeping for hours. He ate a very small
amount of cat food (just a few bites) and less sour cream (maybe 10 fingerfuls
today) but cleaned out two half-bowls of liver shake. He is getting that
very angular look like his muscles are very soft and his skin and whatever fat
is left on him are just hanging on his bones. While he still has enough
weight on him that his ribs do not show, you can clearly see the
delineation of his spine and his hips. This is all in the past week, and is very
distressing. He has purred some but less, but that could be because I
syringe fed him one syringe ful this morning and gave him a pill, and last night
we gave him fluids because he looked dehydrated (skin) and he hated that. His
pica, craving odd things like ash, is increasing. I am broiling him some chicken
now in the hopes he will eat it.
The strangest thing is that it seems like his liver is doing better-- he
really is hardly yellow at all, and when he got chemo last Thursday his values
were down a lot-- but his anemia seems worse and worse-- he is paler than ever,
and it was only 9 or 11 last thursday depending on the read. Since both
are supposedly caused by his lymphoma taking over organs (liver and bone
marrow), I do not really understand how one can improve while the other gets
worse. The oncologist is on vacation until Thursday so I can not ask
him.
I really don't know what to think. I have been trying to work today (I work
from home, mostly) because he seems fairly stable, but I can't really
concentrate and get up every 5 minutes to check on him or try to convince him to
eat (and am annoying the hell out of him). I so badly want him to be well
and return to being his old self, which is seeming so far away now even though
he has only been sick less than 2 months. But in reality perhaps this is
greedy, since last week at this time all I asked for was for him to feel better
for a bit and to pass peacefully, when I thought he was on the brink of
death.
Please keep praying for him and sending him energy. He needs
it.
Thanks for asking,
Michelle
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