New chemo treatment

Kaesea went in today for his weekly chemo treatment. Based on the lack of progress so far and his glum-ness, his doctor suggested swapping out a similar-but-with-less-side-effects treatment today. That seemed like a good idea, so we did it. Fingers crossed on a better reaction to this new treatment -- I prefer a happy cat to a glum one.

He has also lost a bit of weight this week (9.38lbs) which doesn't surprise me, since his eating hasn't been great. Such a bummer.

They took a quick ultrasound of his belly today and found some good news and some ? news. The good news is that his pancreas remains normal and the even better news is that some fluid that has been evident in his abdomen for the past few months seems to now be gone (I don't even think I've written about this issue here before. There is So. Much. Information! Oh, well. It's cleared up now, so yay.)

However, she said that his small intestine walls were, gosh... how did she put it? I cannot remember her exact words, but basically, she could really see them quite clearly. This is new for him. This can show "either irritable bowel syndrome or lymphoma" (that's what she said -- I wrote it down). Since we already know he has lymphoma, it seems like that's just... what it is.

At any rate, she was happy about that fluid being gone. The small intestine visibility thing... well, I'll have to talk with her more about it later. Sometimes it takes me a day or two to process things before I go back and ask questions.

Since we swapped out drugs today, he only got 1 of his 2 scheduled chemo treatments, just to see if there are any side effects from this. He'll get part 2 next week.

After spending the day at the vet, he came home and ran straight to his litter box and took a GIGANTIC pee (guess he's shy about doing it there), then ate a bunch of kibble and passed out. When he got up, he had a hearty play session with his catnip squirrel. Now he's passed out again. Snoring. Love that snoring -- it never fails to crack us up.