One thing after the other...

I honestly don't know what we did to warrant a streak of such bad luck with our animals. Last week when we took the cats in for a checkup, they found a mass on Zoe's belly that needed to be removed asap. Well that was scheduled for Tuesday, so Monday night we took her in for blood work.

After we waited on the results, the vet came out and asked if Zoe had ever been combo tested. We said yes, years and years ago, but never there. She wanted to do that because Zoe's WBC count was at a 3000, which is super low -- it should be 4,900 at the very least. Long story short, Zoe has FIV, which is the human equivalent to HIV.

We're completely baffled by this and have no idea how she contracted it. It had to be at least 8 years ago when we had Sasha, or maybe a couple years before that when we had Felicia. We have NO idea how this happened.

To make another long story short, we're taking Zoe to Poplar Bluff next week for a second opinion. Our vets bedside manor sucks. She didn't tell us anything about FIV, she just said she wouldn't recommend the surgery, but she could still do it if WE wanted her to. She wasn't even going to do the blood work before her surgery, it wasn't until I started asking what the risk factors were for with Zoe's age, that's when she said she could do that if it would make us feel better.

Of course we wanted her to!

I talked with two different vets offices yesterday and they both said they would have sent Zoe home with antibiotics and retested in a couple weeks. We need to get her WBC count up so that she can have the mass on her belly removed.

You have absolutely NO idea how stressful these last couple weeks have been. Actually these last couple months! I'm on the brink of either jumping off a cliff or becoming an alcoholic.

I am, however, going to try and start blogging again. I need a place to vent and let out my frustrations and feelings. I miss blogging. I love to write and this is literally the only way I can. Of course, things are subject to change, but I'm really trying to be optimistic about the second opinion. I've not been at all ever since she said the lump on Zoe needed to be removed.

With that being said, I do believe I'm going to try and post an "update" blog tomorrow with all the happenings (excluding Zoe) from the last few weeks. Until then...

-Megan