Toro At Home

I wonder when all this would get better san?

His iPTH test. So its not his parathyroid that is causing the elevated calcium in his blood. Back to the drawing board!

I really do not think this is funny san. YOU should try swallowing 6 pills and now the kaolin too?

See? I know what I am doing. Its just I won't slip off the couch of course.

I know you are still looking at me!

There is nothing I can do about it. A nap would be best!

The iPTH test came back negative so I guess it has to be from somewhere else. Dr Lee said it could be from some other source and may be a tumour somewhere else!! She advised an ultra sound (which he is getting on the 31st of Dec) and another blood test to see his calcium levels. She said that 13.9 is not overly high but we should monitor his calcium levels. Other than tis very worrying aspect, Toro is very well and chasing shadows as usual :)

Vet Visit

zzz...what is the fuss san?

It happened to us AGAIN. We went to the hospital and we still can't get the ionised calcium reading as the hospital ran out of the cartridge that they would need to do the reading- 2 weeks ago! Did no one check when they made the appointment for us? But the blood for the pth was done - all 6 cm of it from his jugular and Dr Lee said we could use his calcium reading from before to make some conclusions as to why the blood calcium reading is high. They are sending the blood sample to QUEST, the organisation that would do the test and they only do this test once a week. The results will come back in 3 days.

The bald patch on Toro's back

Dr Lee said the patch could be because of the Frontline I had used on him and this seems to be something that happens quite often to pets. I usually use Revolution but decided to change to Frontline this year. Bujang and Tanaka did not have such changes in their fur though so I guess it would affect only some cats. Cousin R reminded me that Putih had this same effect last year but her fur grew quite well after a week or so. So no more Frontline I guess for the amigos. I have yet to put any on Ms Akira or Megat so would buy Revolution for the both of them instead. Ms Akira has been scratching her head for a few weeks. I wonder if any other kitty had this type of reaction with Frontline.

PS
The vet gave us Silva Aloe Panalog - a cream that I have to use on this spot as well as on the part where he has a rash on his underside. She also gave us Auraclens to clean the irritated area. I must say they both work well as this morning, the rash on his underside was not so red.

More tests for Toro

Our appointment with Dr Lee will be for 29th November.

His creatinine is now 2.4 from 2.6. Not a good indicator but at least it is lower than last month! His BUN is 29 which is the same as last month though. at least that is not higer but his blood calcium level is higher at 13.9 from 13.2. Dr T suspects parathyroids as if its his kidneys, the potassium levels would also be correspondingly higher!

So he would be getting his ionised calcium levels tested as well as his blood test to test for his pth. Poor guy! Dr T suggested that I could give Toro another pillto tryt o stabilise the calcium but I am not doing that yet as he is already on too many pills! I am surprised he is still so good humoured about it.

A parathyroid malfunction?

Guess who is off to the vet once again?

Totoro was off to do a blood test to see if the excess blood calcium was due to his parathyroids. Both Drs L and T had discussed this abnormality in his indicators. It seems a high indicator for calcium always goes hand in hand with high potassium but his potassium levels are normal and his calcium abnormally high. It seems sometimes the parathyroids bleach calcium from bones and this would result in fragile and porous bones which would be detrimental to any cat! So we were off to do our first blood test as his blood would be sent off for the test tomorrow.

Totoro sitting pretty in his cage...

Totoro waiting for the vet to open after lunch. Many people were curious to see us and a woman actually stopped for a bit to discuss him. He is 'very big' she finally said after we had discussed his kidneys and tests. One person actually thought he was a dog! But everyone thought he was handsome :)

Toro getting his sub-q done by Dr L

Finally it was decided not to do the blood test this afternoon as it had to be done in conjunction with some calcium test and the machine is at the hospital. Dr T would bring it with him thus Saturday and I would be able to discuss the tests more then.