Frida had her recheck yesterday. Her condition is unchanged since she had the procedure last weekend. That is excellent news. It is not a given that she is in congestive heart failure. There is no telling where the fluid in her chest is coming from because we are not going to put her through testing to find out. Her doctor agrees with us on this. So we are continuing to treat the symptom, the fluid build up, and keeping her comfortable. She can have any food she wants, although renal diet would help her kidneys, and the diuretic puts a strain on them. She is doing all of her cat things as best she can. Her hind quarters are a little unreliable, so instead of scratching the post this morning she rubbed it with her cheek.
Meanwhile, Daisy is more acrobatic than ever, if that is possible. Any time we walk up or down the stairs, she comes running to beat us to the top or jump on the banister on the way down. When she had been with us for a few months, I put an empty tissue box at the top of the stairs to carry down for recycling. It was one of those boxes that are shaped like a cube with an oval opening at the top. Daisy stuck her head right into the box and couldn't get it off. I tried to help her but she was moving too fast. She backed up frantically and went through the railing, straight down to the ground floor, and landed with a thump. That slowed her down long enough for me to run down the stairs and get the tissue box off her head. She was so rattled it took a long time to calm her down. She does not have anything to do with tissue boxes any more.
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