There's No Place Like Home Redux

I'm home!

I'm home!

I'm home!

I'm home!

I'm done with my radiation treatments and cancer v-e-t jail !!!!



Did I mention I'm home?!

Ahhhhh....there's no place like home....

There's No Place Like Home

Yo peeps and kits and woofs!

Yes indeedy, 'tis me, the Bugster. I'm home again for the weekend from cancer v-e-t jail.

After we got home yesterday evening, The Mommy fed us some stinky goodness! Woot!

It was yummy. A nice after-birthday treat.

Then I got in some scratching on the scratcher thingy. (You can tell we liked our first one there in the background, that one got pretty well torn up, mostly from Pixie. )

And then some laptime with The Mommy.

I gotta give props to the cancer v-e-t peoples. They were very nice to me for my birthday Thursday! I got extra treats and stinky goodness, and they made me a birthday sign and a hat, and took a photo of me with the sign for my Mommy! (But look at my ears in the photo with the sign...I was there under duress! MOL) They told her I wore the hat for a few minutes, but didn't take a photo of that. But wasn't it nice of them to do all that??!

Unfortunately I had to go back to the regular v-e-t this morning for a follow-up on the bladder infection he said I had a couple of weeks ago, so that was another cage ride. Mean ol' Mommy. I showed them though, I didn't have any pee for him to take for the test! HA! But the v-e-t showed me right back...now I gotta take the pills for another week AND go back again next week to try again for the pee test. Dang it, should have had some pee for him to test me and maybe I would've been clean, and done. *Sigh*

The other bad news is, I still have to go back to the cancer v-e-t on Monday. But the good news is, I only have THREE more radiation treatments, I'll be DONE on Wednesday, and then I come home Wednesday evening! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Still no signs of any side effects, and I've also been holding my weight, which is very important. The cancer v-e-t is very pleased with my progress.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some more lap-napping to do...

Silly Saturday

I've been having a nice nap on top of this shelf unit, but now I'm awake.

And after a good stretch...

It's time to go somewhere else! I'm so speedy, I'm just a blur...

Okay, I'll admit these photos are a few weeks old. But I'm sure I'll be up there again this weekend. It's good to be home again after my second week of radiation treatments. And now, with 10 of 18 done, I'm past the halfway point! Everything is going well, and they all love me at the cancer v-e-t's place; I have them eating out of my paw. And so far, no sign of any bad side effects -- this is about the point where the doc guy said they might start showing up. Keeping my paws crossed that none do...

Mancat Monday

It was great to be home this weekend, away from the mean ol' cancer v-e-t place. (Yeah, they treat me fine...other than that whole giving-me-anesthesia and strapping-me-down-to-give-me-radiation 5-days-in-a-row and having-to-board-there-all-week thing...but it's still not home.) Here I am Friday evening, surveying my domain to make sure nothing has changed drastically.

By the time most of you read this, I'll be back at the cancer v-e-t place for my 2nd week of treatments. *Sigh* On the upside, when I come home for the weekend after this week, I'll be more than halfway through the treatment plan!

And then....and THEN! On top of everything else, after being caged up all week at the cancer v-e-t, The Mommy had the nerve to put me back in the carrier cage thingy on Saturday morning to take me to the regular v-e-t for a pee test follow-up from the struvite bladder stone I had surgically removed earlier in the summer (this summer has really sucked, lemme tell ya) and guess what? While I don't have any crystals in my pee, which is a good thing, I do have a bit of a bladder infection. So now I'm on pills twice a day for the next two weeks and then I have to go back and take the test again. I guess that's what I get for not studying for this one!

It's just not FAIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! ::Whine whine whine complain complain complain:: I think I'll put the bitey on someone at the cancer v-e-t's this week...

See y'all next weekend!

Friday Medley

To end the week, we have an assortment of this-and-that for your reading pleasure...

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On Monday, our friend Jasmim gave us an award:

This translates to "This Blog Makes Me Happy". Thank you, Jasmim!

The rules for this award are:

1 - Post the blog that gave you the award
2 - Post 5 things that make you happy
3 - Pass the award to 5 other blogs

So, 5 things that make us happy. We've done something similar with each of us picking one thing since there are 5 of us, but this time we'll just do 5 things that make us all happy.

1. Going outside! (Carefully snoopervised, of course...)
2. If we can't go outside, then sitting in the window seats with the windows open makes us happy as a close second. We don't get chased back inside that way 'cause we're already inside!
3. Napping wherever we want, but especially on The Mommy's lap or close to her.
4. Playing with our catnip toys.
5. Running to greet The Mommy when she gets home from that work thing.

It's always hard to choose who to pass awards on to, but we prefer to do that rather than just give it to everyone. So even though we love everybuddy, we'd like to give this award to:

1. Cats in Trees
2. Pet Meadow
3. Eric and Flynn
4. JB's Small World
5. Cory Cat Blog

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The Mommy wanted to share with you another seller she found on Etsy. She got some really pretty cards from Patti Waltz Artwork; she was really taken with the kitty silhouette, moon and stars, and pretty blue coloring of this card.

The Mommy had some really nice conversations with Patti, and may have talked her into eventually starting a kitty blog for her kitties! The world needs more kitty bloggers.

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The Mommy's looking forward to getting Bugsy from the cancer v-e-t this afternoon and bringing him home for the weekend after he's been boarding there all week for his first week of radiation treatments. After all, tomorrow is Meow Like A Pirate Day, and Bugsy with his one eye is a natural for it! Arrr...

(Of course, Bugsy then goes back to the cancer v-e-t on Monday for another week of treatments -- still 2.5 weeks, or 13 treatments, to go -- but at least he'll be home for a couple of days!)

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And to round out the post and get your weekend started, how about another pretty photo...this is from The Mommy's Tuesday evening drive home:

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Happy Friday, y'all!

Bugsy Medical News

We know you're probably tired of hearing about Bugsy's medical issues, but nevertheless, here we are with another update.

He went to the cancer v-e-t on Tuesday for his first visit. (For those new to the bloggie, he had an eye removed last month due to a tumor. Initial results showed it was a malignant tumor, so our v-e-t referred us to the cancer v-e-t.) This was a radiation v-e-t, who said that those test results on the tumor biopsy showed that there was likely some lingering cancer "stuff" running along the part of the optic nerve that was left behind from the surgery. This meant at the very least, Bugsy would need radiation treatments to try and blast those nasty things outta there.

The nice v-e-t man also wanted to run a CT scan (guess they don't call them CAT scans anymore at the v-e-t offices... ) to check on Bugsy's lymph nodes and lungs, the areas where any additional tumors would likely first show up. If anything had shown up, that would change the whole treatment plan. The results didn't come back until Thursday, so that was a couple of days of waiting...and wondering... But happily, nothing showed up. That doesn't mean that something couldn't still show up down the road, though.

So, the radiation cancer v-e-t is going to work up the exact treatment plan over the weekend but unless we hear otherwise, radiation treatments will start on Monday. It's a daily treatment, 18 treatments, Monday through Friday for 3.5 weeks. Because of where we live and where the cancer v-e-t is located, it looks like it will be easier all around for Bugsy to board with them during the week and come home for the weekend. Not an easy decision, though...but probably for the best both for him and for The Mommy.

Although she just looked at the calendar and realized he'll be spending his 6th birthday on October 1st at the v-e-t's... Well, he'll just have to be extra-spoiled when he comes home that weekend. Maybe they'll sing happy birthday to him there!

So that's the scoop. Let's hope the radiation does its job...'cause it ain't cheap! But he's worth it.

And now we'll leave you with this belly shot:

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