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my cats Nutmeg and Eddie sends his best to Carerra.
Nutmeg is 15 and started acting a little extra-hyper over the past few months. He has always been a hyperactive, agressive but very affectionate, playful and friendly cat...but this was a little different.
He started showing some obsession for the bathroom sink, and then started jumping up there watching the water go out of the faucet. I put some in my hands and he would drink from it....this became an every day thing, three or four times a day....
So I took him to the vet for a checkup and bloodwork...he showed higher than normal levels for Creatinine and BUN, showing that his kidneys were not functioning well....this could be the onset of kidney disease, or hyperthyroidism which is the growing of the thyroid gland putting out too much output...
Well it turned out to be hyperthyroidism.... we tried these Tapazole pills to get the symptoms under control, but he had some reactions to it within a few days...
so I made an appointment to get this Radioactive therapy next week in LA. They inject a radioactive solution into the cat and it is supposed to stop the theroid gland from growing and actually reverses it back to normal....they say it is effective 95% of the time...
So he will be away for 4 days next week, in a cage at night... I know that he will be miserable there, as he hates the vet and is very aggressive towards them when they try to poke and prod him....
but I hope that this treatment will work and then he can get back to normal and we can then monitor his kidney function.... I absolutely love this cat more than anything in my life.....he is so cool.
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