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We’re Growing Fins

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Meowllo everypawdy. Maybe me shuld make a fishy mouff and say hey. Yep it’s stowmin’ again. Course we knew we was in fur mow rain, we just didn’t know there wuld be stowms too. And when mommy and hers doctor was visitin’ at hers pointment him was sayin’ dat we be in a critical drought. Now meez just a kitty so me dusn’t unnerstand just how we can be in a drought wiff all da rain we be getting’, but pawently it’s so and we need all this rain. And truff is it’s always rainy here in May. Mommy sez there’s a human sayin’ dat April showers bwing May flowers. But we get April AND May showers and then sum burnt up June flowers. (it gets really hot). So yesfurday ‘bout 45 minutes afur meez Cat Scoout pawrty stawted there was a stweak of light dat lit up da dawkened sky and then da heavens opened and da angels tears fell. It didn’t let up but fur ‘bout 30 minutes last night so me missed da pawrty. Anyways, sissy wanted to tell y’all ‘bouut a pawsum fing dat happened this week, so me will turn it over to her now.  

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Lexi: Fanks Dezi. Hey y’all hope youz had a grayt day yesfurday. I’z need to give ya’ a bit ov background afur I’z tell ya’ da newz udderwize youz won’t git it. So az you all know I’z habz a facebook page called Alexandra and Furiends. Which by da way ifin youz not pawed dat like buttoon, purrlease click minez name and click like, or scroll down a bit here on our bloggy and click the like button on minez facebook feed. Anyways, the udder side of facebook is unner minez and Deziz name too. And it inkludez minez birffday so it showz me az da 16 year old I iz. Itz nebber binn a purrawblem till recently and mommy kuldn’t enter a contezt fur coffee cuz it used our facebook purrofile and youz had to be 18. So we asked a few furiendz to enter fur usm and they did. It waz no big deal and mommy didn’t give it anudder fawt.. And then while vizitin’ our furiend Truffles da udder day we found minez age an issue once again.  

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Truffles waz habbin’ a give away fur a new purroduct dat kuld help this old gal. We don’t alwayz enter give awayz, lessen it be sumfin’ we really want or wuld like to try. And this waz just one ov those timez when we really wanted to enter. So we entered our email address and clicked enter and we got a message weez nebber seen afur. It sd, “it appears you do not meet the age requirements.” Hmmmmmmm What you talkin’ ‘bout, we fawt. So we did it again. This time mommy looked at all da options and saw we kuld sign in wiff facebook, twitter or email. Well, we nebber sign into anyfin’ wiff facebook or twitter, so when we got da message da second time we kuld only assume da contest widget was hackin’ into our facebook and getting’ minez birffday and ov course I’z still not 18. So we kuldn’t eeben enter fur a chance to win da give away. We wished eberpawdy good luck and told Truffles and Miss Melissa why we kuldn’t enter in our comment and then went on wiff our day. Da next timme we checked our email Miss Melissa had sent us a note saying she was sorry we kuldn’t enter but dat she had a extwa bottle of da Regeneril and fawt dat it might be weally good fur me. And dat she had sum noms she wuld like to give us too. OMC We are so very blest. And I’z like da regeneril. Mommy sez it smells purretty strong to her, but I lick It up. Mommy puts it in minez baby food glob wiff minez udder medsinz. so I’z wanna say a meowsy big Fank ya’ to Truffles and Miss Melissa fur sharin’.  

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Me wants to say fank you too, cuz weez only been usin’ it a kupple days now, but we sure hope it helps.

Till da next time………………………………….Be Blest!!!

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses  

Dezi and Lexi

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Blest Sunday 2nd Time Around

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Meowllo everypawdy and a Blest Sunday to ya’. Bet you are all wonderin’ exactly what do we mean by 2nd time around right? Well it’s been like a roller coaster ride round here wiff sis Lexi fur da last few days and so it was really late last night or rather this meownin’ when we wrote and scheduled our Blest Sunday posty. Since we usually don’t have any trubble wiff our posts goin’ out when we schedule them we didn’t get in any hurry to get by our blog today. After all it was Meowday/birffday pawrty day at Cat Scouts. So of course after church we went to scouts and pawrtied wiff those scouts celebratin’ today. That’s when we noticed our post hadn’t gone out. So we did what anypawdy wuld do ifin this happened and went about to publish it right then. Only when we clicked the publish button, we saw stars and all kinds of weird fings, nun of which was our post bein’ posted. When all was sed and dun, our post was nowhere to be found. So here we are writing it fur the second time around. MOL 

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The roller coaster you ask? Well sissy has lost a lot of weight, and although mommy tries to fotograff her so dat it doesn’t really show, mommy can see it. And we had a day when she just wouldn’t eat anyfing mommy put in front of her and she kept fallin’ out of the chair (make shift steps) dat’s only like 2 feet off da ground. And mommy had cried off and on all day long. So when Lexi got on da table at dinnertime and then wouldn’t eat yet again, mommy just kuldn’t take it anymore. Cuz me wasn’t eating either.  Oh mommy did her nowmal, offer Lexi a bite of everything we have in the house and prayed over both of us, but nuffin’ was working at all. So mommy sat down and had a big ole pit pawrty. She sure did. Meez paws was soaked fwum wiping da tears from her face. And nope, sissy never did eat that day. Me finally did, but dat’s not what had mommy so upset.

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This meownin’ sissy ate a great bwekky tho’ so mommy’s happy again. At least till dinnertime. MOL We count our many blessings and sissy eating is fur sure a big one. Fank you to all of you who continue too keep her and us in your purrayers. We really do purreciate it. As always we are blest to be a pawrt of such a wonderful and caring and luvving community. And we are so blest to have all of you in our lives. We’ll be purrticipatin’ in Selfie Sunday hosted by our pawsum furiends over at the Cat on My Head.  And we’ll visit the best we can this week as tomorrow is mommy’s monthly doctors pointment and sissy has to go to da VET this week too.

Till da next time…………………………….Be Blest!!!

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses  

Dezi and Lexi

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D Is Fur ME

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Meowllo evewypawdy today is da letter D in da Bloggin’ A to Z Challenge. And yous all know dat me kuldn’t let this day go by wiffout a lot of fotos of mommy’s favowit D, ME!!! Yep since meez name is Deztinee, me be mommys favowit D. So meez gunna join up wiff Athena fur Caturday Awt and show off da D in ow house. Me wants to wemind you all dat Monday weez’ll be addwessin’ da new test fur Kidney Disease dat wuz used to diagnose sis Lexi. And altho’ today is D day fur me we do wanna let ya’ know dat on top of evewyfin’ else it’s been a kupple weally wuff days fur sissy so ifin yous kuld send up sum purrayers we sure wuld purreciate it. She’s not been eatin’ very good and this meownin’ she fwu up quite a foo times. Now, on wiff da show.  

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OMC Mommy it's a bit chilly out here today mommy.
OMC Mommy it’s a bit chilly out here today mommy.
Now which key means post mommy?
Now which key means post mommy?

Till da next time………………………………….Be Blest!!!

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses  

Dezi

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B Is For…

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Meowllo Evewypawdy hope yous havin’ a good week so faw. As you know meez joined up wiff da Bloggin’ A to Z challenge fur Apwil. Mommy and Lexi and me ‘cided we wuz gunna cover da purrocess of how sis Lexi wuz diagnosed wiff Kidney disease and what shuld have happened and what weez duin’ now. Cuz what did happen and what shulda happened awe 2 vewy diffewent fings. Now yous not wequired to follow a theme, and we hadn’t weally planned on duin’ dat, cuz weez not fink it’ll take all mumff and all da letters of da alfabet to tell ow stowry, but based on da comments and emails fwum yesfurday, we ‘cided today dat we wuld post as long as it took. And cuz so many peeps be pawsibly visitin’, after ow intwo da wemainder of da posty wuld be in hooman speak. We wuld also like to add dat in ow wesearch we found dat there awe certain bweeds of cats dat be purredisposed to kidney disease. As there is no cure fur this de=isease ifin yous have one of these bweeds it might pay to keep an eye on yous kitty fwuout their lives. They awe: Maine Coon, Abyssinian, Persian, Siamese, Burmese and Russian Blue. So today is da letter B’s day.

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Our furst B is fur Blood tests, as they awe a definite must when it comes to diagnosing Kidney disease. So yesterday we told you that a common urinalysis can be a great tool in diagnosing illnesses in your cat. And that if Albumin is present in the urine more tests are needed to determine the actual reason/illness. That’s where the ERD comes in and we will be telling you more about that test in a few days. For now we will say that not all vets use this test and so after a urinalysis typically blood work is the next logical test. And we don’t mean a prick. We mean a full CBC, Super Chemistry and T4. Now if your anything like us or you’ve not had a sick pet then you just read that last line and said…what the cat?!! And by the way me would like to say that in our research we found a lot of the same conditions, symptoms, and testing apply for cats, dogs, and humans when it comes to diagnosing kidney disease. Anyways, if Albumin is present in the urine please get a full blood panel and that T4 that’ll diagnose Thyroid disease.  

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Although we stated that the presence of Albumin in the urine can certainly mean kidney disease, it could also mean a lot of other things. Even after performing the ERD if your doctor runs that, you still need a blood test to confirm the diagnoses and determine a proper course of treatment. The numbers most looked at are the BUN and Creatinine. Next is the Phosphorous, Potassium and Sodium. BUN or blood urea nitrogen rises when the kidneys aren’t functioning well enough to remove all the waste product from the blood. By determining the level of Creatinine in the blood your doctor can tell how well the kidneys are working and the stage of kidney disease. High Creatinine numbers mean kidney disease.

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Most kidney diets awe low in Phosphorous and Protein. High Phosphorous levels can make Kidney disease progress much faster. So knowing these numbers can be very helpful in determining treatment. The first thing mommy did was try to switch Lexi to a low Phosphorous food. Once we got the blood tests we learned sis Lexi’s Phoso. numbers were really low and she didn’t need a food with low Phosphorous. That could be as dangerous as high numbers. Newer studies have found that lowering the Phosphorous in the diet and providing high quality protein are more important than the lower protein in managing Kidney disease. After all cats are obligate carnivores and require meat protein to survive and thrive. So the importance of today’s post is that blood work is a necessity in helping to determine if your pet indeed has Kidney disease and to help formulate a plan of action for treatments. Although all the numbers are important, the BUN and Creatinine are the ones your doctor is going to rely on most in his/her diagnosis. And always, always, always get a copy of the tests. You paid for them, they are yours. We actually recommend getting and keeping a complete copy of your pets records at all times. No matter how much you like your Vet, you never know what the future holds. Join us tomorrow for the letter C.  

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Approximate Normal Ranges for Common Tested Blood Values

 

BUN    14 – 36 MG/DL

Creatinine   .6 – 2.4 MG/DL

Calcium (Ca)   8.2 – 10.8 MG/DL

Phosphorus (P)   2.4 – 8.2 MG/DL

Potassium (K)   3.4 – 5.6 MEQ/L

Sodium (Na)   145 – 158 MEQ/L

Packed Cell Volume (PCV)   29% – 48%

Well we do hope weez shed a little mowe light on da subject of blood test and kidney disease. And we hope weez made weadin’ blood test wesults a little less scawy. Da list above is in no way complete and da nowmal levels may vawy slightly fwum lab to lab. Andyways, meez gunna go now mommy’s purromised a stwoll in da sun.

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So till da next time………………………………Be Blest!!!

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses  

Dezi and Lexi

 

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http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2012/08/06/kidney-disease-in-cats.aspx

http://www.vetinfo.com/renal-failure-cats.html

http://www.felinecrf.com/tests0.htm