Vet Visit for Toro

Toro's blood test results
Last March : BUN 28: CRE 2.3

Toro usually sits quietly for evening meds...

Yesterday I had to reward him with a bout of grooming after his morning meds. He knows its time for meds immediately after breakfast and would play hide and seek.

Toro rewarding me with some US time after the grroming session. Toro waiting for his blood test results.

Yesterday we got to the vet a little late as we could not get a cab to go to the vet but Dr H saw us almost immediately. Toro got sub-Q fluids and then his blood test. Dr H said the test was rather good but his creatinine levels were 2.4 from 2.3 last month. He said kidney cats usually has some troublw with this aspect and wanted us to come for another blood test 3 months from now. I guess 3 months means its not at dangerous levels.

We met another cat called Boy who was 12 years old. It seems Dr H suspected kidney problems as Boy had some urinary problems. His mom was very worried and we talked about Toro for abit. We had to go home quickly as I was afraid it would begin to rain again but hope that Boy was ok.

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.