Oh, Guliko

That's right, it's another post about the cat.  What an exciting blog!  I'm going to say once again that I am not generally the sort of person that talks about the cat nonstop, but the beginning of the blog sort of coincided with Guliko's big health crisis.  The blog is meant to be about things I find funny or interesting or whatever, and the thing that I'm thinking about the most right now is Guliko.

Anyway, she and I made it through the weekend with the girlfriend gone just fine.  Guliko is spending most of her time hiding somewhere--in one of two places in my closet, behind or under a chair in my office, or under the bed--but she does come out to eat, especially in the morning, and she does like to be petted still.  You just have to go find her and pet her in her hiding place.  And her purrs and her meows sound really funny, we think because the lymph node is pressing on her voicebox a little.  She certainly is not pouncing on things or jumping up or being her old self, but she's holding her own.

Then yesterday morning the vet finally called (she claims that their computer system was down all day Friday, which is why she didn't call).  She said that a pathologist had looked at the few cells she'd taken out when we took Guliko in last Tuesday and he thought that they were cancerous.  She did not sound upbeat.  So we went back over to the vet to have some blood work done yesterday afternoon so we could take her in for the biopsy this morning.  Poor kitty.

She didn't get to have breakfast this morning, so she was really grouchy, and now she's at the vet by herself.  They have to put her under anesthesia to take the biopsy, which means we won't be able to go get her until 5 or so this evening.  We won't find out the results of the biopsy until Friday or next Monday, but things don't look good for her. 

The worst part is that I have to go away for the weekend for a family reunion at my grandparents', which means I may not even be here when we find out the results.  Well, that and the kitty being really sick.  This sucks.