flexagon | Catatonic cat

Emergency vet visit on Tuesday night, the scariest Nala episode since sometime last year. This time she stopped being able to use her hind legs very well; suddenly one of them froze up, kind of in a forward position, and then she started yowling in the very unhappy way she does when she's having an Episode and then she went mostly non-responsive. We laid her down in the sun and petted her (she was conscious) while doing some web searches, then called the vet while she worked on being able to walk again. They wanted to see her, so I took her in and spent a lot of money to learn that... well... she is old. Nothing really new. We did an X-ray for something the vet felt in her abdomen, but it turned out just to be stool.

Thanks to covid-19, vets don't let you go in to the office anymore. The vets come out and take your pet in from the sidewalk, then take payment over the phone and bring the pet back out when they are done. I found myself thinking unhappily about euthanasia, how much it would suck to not be able to go in with her in that case, and wrote to a house call vet to see if that kind of service is still available.

In the meantime, the expensive little wobbler is TOTALLY FINE and is walking around like nothing happened, and is now curled up in front of the fireplace. Her birthday is soon; last year I celebrated on 4/6 so I guess that's her birthday, or close enough.