Well, life got more interesting around here last night. At 1:15 AM, after cleaning snow from the Subaru, my daughter and I loaded up Fermata and drove forty-five minutes into Rhode Island to the emergency vet. Kitty was experiencing a fever plus labored breathing and I was really afraid that he was either becoming dehydrated or, possibly, entering a condition known as thyroid storm, where the thyroid sort of "goes crazy," flooding the body with thyroid hormone, and ramping up respiration, heart rate, everything. Thankfully, based on bloodwork from the early morning hours, it doesn't look like that is the problem. That said, the vet is still trying to determine the cause of the continued fever. Possibilities: vaccine reaction, a viral infection, or something really serious. A bloodwork comparison, a feline leukemia test, and a cardiac/abdominal ultrasound should tell us more. That all happens tomorrow. My family and I are praying for a positive outcome.
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