![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Apr. 30th, 2025 10:37 pmQua's hanging in there. I'm hanging in there, too.
Tweaking his steroids a bit so he takes one tab in the AM, and a half tab in the PM. It just started this week, but in the morning he'll give these small, high-pitched mews, which isn't typical for him at all. I hope they're not pain meows, but in case they are, staggering the prednisolone may help keep the pain level at a more manageable level vs having the whole dose at one time, and then they run out towards the end of the 24 hours. He did mew a little this morning. But not as much as he has the past few mornings.
Looked up the Feline Grimace Scale, which apparently is a University of Montreal thing for estimating a cat's pain level. The ears and body posture are pretty easy to read, the whiskers a little less so, the shape of the muzzle is a challenge for me to tell. Most of his posture reads as no to very low levels of discomfort right now. I hope it stays low, at least until he's due for his next round of blood work. I might get him a shot of Solencia, and ask about the gaba again. But his gp vet said he was legit looking good, so I'm apprehensive to bug about meds so soon.
I hate having to guess with this so much, but compared to Ish, Qua really does not seem to make much effort to conceal any level discomfort. If he's not feeling well, he's under the bed or sleeping on the floor. I told my bro I don't deny that Qua is feeling not quite right, but it's kind of a Morrissey 'I am so very ill' feel, not a 'I'm in unbearable pain' kind of feel. At least I hope so. I just worry and hope I'm doing enough for him.
Qua's so attached to his fountain it's not even funny. I'm glad he enjoys it so much. I hope it's comforting to him on multiple levels. He doesn't seem to visit the second fountain much, and I'm tempted to move it under the bed so he'll have a little nightlight under there, but I'm afraid if I did, he'd never come out from under the bed. Creature of darkness, though I have caught him stretching out in the sun on the floor in front of the west facing window the past couple of days. He looks comfortable and at ease, paws stretched out, head and body half rolled over the way cats do.
Took the day off tomorrow anticipating big May Day events since everyone seems to be hyping it online, but it looks like most of it's going on Saturday. Which I already have off. Oh well. More time to spend with Qua is certainly time well spent. I can also make a sign for Saturday. Goblins for Due Process or something like that. Draw Kwa and Kyo on there like nobody's going to know wtf they are, but that's fine.
Drawing more goblins lately, in different poses and coloring some of them in. I really like drawing the goblins, especially the yellow-crowned guy with the spear. They're really into that spear, and I drew an action pose of them doing a flying leap. I'm still figuring out Kwa's deal. I drew another picture of them pushing a paper lantern out into the water. Made me think of the Obon festival at the Portland Japanese Gardens. I miss them so, so much. I miss the green something fierce. We've got green and humidity down here, but it's just not the same.
Need to get my head back together and do more People School. I've pretty much finished the class portion, but there's an incredible amount of other material to read and learn that I should get deeper into. My brain's been so stuck in Qua hospice mode, it's hard to concentrate on anything else. Qua's so bent on napping on his fountain, doing the online class shouldn't be a big ask.
Probably be some incoming work drama next week since bossmang has started scheduling the one on ones, and I signed up for next Tuesday. Get this shit done and out of the way. Guess I'd better brush up on the drama triangle lol. What I'm going to say is that there's no space on the drama triangle for the birds, and they're the ones who are really getting harmed the most by the bullshit. I wonder what he'll do with that information. He's so stuck on sticking people into his little diagram, he didn't think about the beings at work who can't speak up for themselves. The ones we're supposed to be serving. Probably can't hear them over the sound of A's massive ego. Yeah, fuck her in particular.
Tweaking his steroids a bit so he takes one tab in the AM, and a half tab in the PM. It just started this week, but in the morning he'll give these small, high-pitched mews, which isn't typical for him at all. I hope they're not pain meows, but in case they are, staggering the prednisolone may help keep the pain level at a more manageable level vs having the whole dose at one time, and then they run out towards the end of the 24 hours. He did mew a little this morning. But not as much as he has the past few mornings.
Looked up the Feline Grimace Scale, which apparently is a University of Montreal thing for estimating a cat's pain level. The ears and body posture are pretty easy to read, the whiskers a little less so, the shape of the muzzle is a challenge for me to tell. Most of his posture reads as no to very low levels of discomfort right now. I hope it stays low, at least until he's due for his next round of blood work. I might get him a shot of Solencia, and ask about the gaba again. But his gp vet said he was legit looking good, so I'm apprehensive to bug about meds so soon.
I hate having to guess with this so much, but compared to Ish, Qua really does not seem to make much effort to conceal any level discomfort. If he's not feeling well, he's under the bed or sleeping on the floor. I told my bro I don't deny that Qua is feeling not quite right, but it's kind of a Morrissey 'I am so very ill' feel, not a 'I'm in unbearable pain' kind of feel. At least I hope so. I just worry and hope I'm doing enough for him.
Qua's so attached to his fountain it's not even funny. I'm glad he enjoys it so much. I hope it's comforting to him on multiple levels. He doesn't seem to visit the second fountain much, and I'm tempted to move it under the bed so he'll have a little nightlight under there, but I'm afraid if I did, he'd never come out from under the bed. Creature of darkness, though I have caught him stretching out in the sun on the floor in front of the west facing window the past couple of days. He looks comfortable and at ease, paws stretched out, head and body half rolled over the way cats do.
Took the day off tomorrow anticipating big May Day events since everyone seems to be hyping it online, but it looks like most of it's going on Saturday. Which I already have off. Oh well. More time to spend with Qua is certainly time well spent. I can also make a sign for Saturday. Goblins for Due Process or something like that. Draw Kwa and Kyo on there like nobody's going to know wtf they are, but that's fine.
Drawing more goblins lately, in different poses and coloring some of them in. I really like drawing the goblins, especially the yellow-crowned guy with the spear. They're really into that spear, and I drew an action pose of them doing a flying leap. I'm still figuring out Kwa's deal. I drew another picture of them pushing a paper lantern out into the water. Made me think of the Obon festival at the Portland Japanese Gardens. I miss them so, so much. I miss the green something fierce. We've got green and humidity down here, but it's just not the same.
Need to get my head back together and do more People School. I've pretty much finished the class portion, but there's an incredible amount of other material to read and learn that I should get deeper into. My brain's been so stuck in Qua hospice mode, it's hard to concentrate on anything else. Qua's so bent on napping on his fountain, doing the online class shouldn't be a big ask.
Probably be some incoming work drama next week since bossmang has started scheduling the one on ones, and I signed up for next Tuesday. Get this shit done and out of the way. Guess I'd better brush up on the drama triangle lol. What I'm going to say is that there's no space on the drama triangle for the birds, and they're the ones who are really getting harmed the most by the bullshit. I wonder what he'll do with that information. He's so stuck on sticking people into his little diagram, he didn't think about the beings at work who can't speak up for themselves. The ones we're supposed to be serving. Probably can't hear them over the sound of A's massive ego. Yeah, fuck her in particular.
