Senhart

This year has been such a mess, but some things have started getting better! One of my roommates got displaced from her job a few months ago, which made our housing situation kinda iffy for a bit there — fortunately she just managed to be rehired somewhere else, which puts us more on an even keel for now. My own financial situation is still not great though, so I very much need to Work On That aksdfjksdjfksd but I have a whole lot less work experience than both my roommates so that's. A problem. Especially with the current state of things. And in the meantime we've had a sick cat for the last...

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Actually, I'm not exactly sure when our cat got sick, a big chunk of the last year has turned into a blurred mess of stress in my head — but basically, earlier this year my other roommate decided to get Four New Cats and one of the four was a kitten who turned out to have FIP, which is a real nasty disease that almost killed him before our vet figured out what was wrong with him (it's pretty rare, and there's no test for it, so it was a process of elimination that very nearly took too long)(plus the way his symptoms showed up was a bit unusual for FIP)

We managed to get the right treatment for the kitten, and he got through the series of meds and has rapidly improved in terms of FIP symptoms, but after he went off the medicine he immediately got a bad herpes flareup (which is not uncommon, sounds like, FIP is really hard on the immune system) so he's continued to be sick for the last couple months, and got some, uh... I'll just call them 'nasty skin effects', in the interest of not being graphic, which have only recently begun healing properly. He also keeps sneezing, because herpes in cats is also a respiratory disease, which I wasn't aware of. So we're still having to give him a set of antivirals/anti-inflammatories twice a day, as well as keep him in a cone to keep him from reopening anything by scratching his face (again -_-), and the kitten is very not happy about any of it. It takes two of us to get the meds in him, it's a constant arms race between us figuring out new ways to hold him in place and the kitten figuring out how to fight out of our grip, and the whole thing has just been real draining — but! Definitely worth it, because it still seems he has a good chance of pulling through and getting healthy again.