let lemons be angry

I always knew he was kinda big and tough, but when I poke him he's still firm. The vet says, however, that Fiver is obese and must change his diet.

We knew something was wrong when he went peeing on stuff. We dismissed it as forgetfulness or stupidity, and accepted that we perhaps had an intellectually disabled cat who reverts to baby behavior when out of sorts. But joyce said that such behavior could be a symptom of a urinary tract infection. Her Tabby had a painful infection and peed everywhere too because he associated the pain with his usual kitty litter.

So last night when Fiver kept trying to pee and cried in the middle of the living room, my dad spent the whole night researching it on the net. This morning I woke up to find that my parents had scooted him off to the vet.

The poor guy has a tube sewn up him to help the pee come out now. It's not an infection, but growths in his bladder, probably and hopefully crystals that will come out. And it's all because his sugar levels are too high. And here I was so proud of having a fat cat.

They said that his bladder was full and bloated. And from the time a cat is bloated, it can take only 36 hours before he dies. I imagine that's probably how the fat and famous BaoBao suddenly died. So Fiver is one very loved and blessed cat, and i'm so thankful that we were attentive to him. I can't imagine coming home today to find him gone.

When he came home from the vet, he was wailing and growling and foaming at the mouth with saliva. He wouldn't let my dad touch him and it made my dad sad. My father always gets hated by the cats because he bathes them and takes them to the vet. For that I think my father is a very good father, of all of us.

Now Fiver is hiding in a corner of the balcony feeling miserable but calm, and we don't want to stress him up by forcing him to wear his bonnet. He keeps trying to pee his tube out. My heart is so full of him. ET peeks at him through the glass door, obviously concerned, but when we catch her at it she quickly walks away as if she doesn't care. But i know that she does, because she is like me in so many ways.

dearest fiver, on my phone wallpaper now