It's been awhile, hasn't it? Leo has now been with me almost 5 months. After his diagnosis of acromegaly, we had a flurry of vet appointments, a dental, a change of insulin, and a whole lot of mental strain.
The strain is from the fear I think, I know Leo is going to die of his condition, and I don't know from which disease first. Will his heart fail? Will his kidneys fail? Will he get cancer? It's tremendously scary, and even though I consider myself to be optimistic bordering on the ridiculous, I am also a realist.
Realists don't have a lot of fun treating diseases like this, in my experience. Many times, we realists are trying so hard to be optimistic that we fail to see the writing on the wall until one day when it slaps you upside the head, holding a cold and slimy trout. I remember all the hours agonizing over Oscar's numbers, and the day reality set in. Heart failure is not an illness, it's a death sentence with a very firm deadline.
Back to The Present, Leo is a very healthy cat who happens to have acromegaly. He's got all kinds of classic acro signs, like a big pot belly, which serves to make him look cute and too-well-fed. He needs about 30 times the insulin of a "normal" diabetic cat. He's got a giant head that he likes to push against my arm, headbutting his way into my heart. Startlingly beautiful and wise eyes seem to stare almost into your soul, but it seems his vision is faltering. His big snowshoe feet carry his giant body as he lumbers from comfortable sleep spot to comfortable sleep spot. He likes to go outside at night, because bright light bothers him, and he hides under the bed if the Oceana jets are flying too much and it hurts his ears. He eats like a starving horse, drinks like a thirsty horse and sleeps like a drunken man. What a racket he makes with that snoring!
With all the symptoms around me on a daily basis, forcing me to mind my reality, it was really hard to come to terms with the simplest truth. One day, with the big furry boy laying next to me as I tapped away on my laptop, I heard it: Sleep-purring. It occurred to me that Leo always purrs in his sleep when he lays next to me.
Loud and steady, clear and true. My baby is happy. Does anything else matter?
Well, Milkshake now has hyperthyroidism.
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no. Nothing else matters. And Leo will tell you that as well.
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