Just a quick update on my little Tidgy girl for all those wonderful Cuties who are praying for her return to health.

She started on her medication on Tuesday, as soon as I got home with it, it was lucky my own head spins weren't quite so bad at that stage or I would not have been able to go collect the tablets.

Anyway, I think she realised that her Mummy wasn't well because she was wonderful taking her tablet, twice a day, and didn't claw me to shreds.

So far she has only vomited once and I think that was because I hadn't given her something to eat straight afterwards, (i was so ill that morning I had to go back to bed immediately) :-(

She seems to be doing OK, though she is still sleeping most of the day and night and only gets off my bed to eat or use the litterbox.
The vet had said there probably would not be a marked improvement for maybe a month but she has come to play two nights in a row.
I don't get involved in her play though as I don't want to over excite her and risk any of the things the vet said could cause her immediate death.
She only plays for a minute or two, trying to catch the knots in the timber floor, and I worry the whole time.

After much research on the symptoms, diagnoses and treatment of Hyperthyroidism in cats, I have learnt that the tablets or gels are not a cure but a sustainment of life that needs to be given every day for the rest of their life.

The only cure is iodine radiation treatment, which would require her to go to the University for up to a week and then she would need to be isolated from the other animals for a further month. We would also have to limit our contact with her as well. But it is a total cure and she would be back to her old self and be able to live a normal life.

I have decided that she will have the radiation treatment as soon as she is strong enough, after all, I didn't settle for anything less than a cure for my cancer so does she deserve anything less?

I just took these photo's a few moments ago, they don't really show how tiny she is or how much weight she has lost, but they really capture her. :-))

I will give you all another update in a week or so.

Hugs and thanks to you all for your prayers and support, we'll just take things one day at a time.............
Meganne