Juniper update

Called the vet this morning and he's doing better; still no real idea what's going on other than the strong possibility of a GI bleed. I'm leaving in a few minutes to go pick him up, and we'll see how he does.

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Juniper is home! The 7am check noted that he was "fractious on being handled", which means that he was feeling sufficiently good to orient to his surroundings and decide that He Did Not Like Them, Sam He Is. I brought him home, took off his bandage (from the IV), and...he's fine, happy, requesting snuggles.

What's wrong with him is still a mystery, but it may have to do with 3 years of daily prednisone, so he's off that for the moment. It may be that we switch therapies for his IBD to a less-effective "pulse" therapy conisting of another drug given 10 days at a time. We have an appointment with the regular vet tomorrow afternoon. Unknown at this point if we're seeing a respite and he'll have another episode, or if it's an adverse drug reaction and discontinuing the prednisone will mean whatever was wrong with him heals, or what.

He is an old kitty, and he has multiple problems. But I'll take whatever good time I have with him left.

(And the emergency vet bill...came to exactly the amount of money I had earmarked for defraying new laptop. Oookay. Wonder if it's time to hang out my photography shingle sooner rather than later?)