Sasha has the urine of a warrior!

The vet performed some sort of pee wizardry and discovered that while Sasha does in fact have a urinary tract infection AND a kidney infection, the bacteria they magically grew from her pee sample yielded a very weak strain of badness so she should have no trouble at all vanquishing the bacterial foes. Sasha has been on antibiotics for a week, and I picked up a prescription continuation for her this morning. She’ll need to take the drug for another 3 weeks, but by that time the infection should be long gone and that is excellent news so hooray!

She’s doing a lot better. She’s just as loud as she was before (which was fucking LOUD), her appetite is disturbing and large, she’s throwing up so very much less, and she’s not having any unfortunate bathroom incidents. She’s feeling well enough to hiss warnings to the other cats if they get too close to her (except for Lemon, but only during food time – she actually lets him eat out of the same dish as her, which is nothing short of a fucking miracle) and she’s actively coming to assault me in bed in the morning if she’s hungry and I’m still asleep (given that it’s like 4am).

None of this, unfortunately, addresses the cancer. We’re still waiting to have additional blood work done, plus the ultrasound next Friday. I’m not looking forward to it, but right now I’m just so delighted at how much better she seems that I will play ostrich and just not worry about it until I need to start making some decisions regarding treatment.

All of this is stupid and expensive, but I love my cat and I keep thinking that it could always be worse. The donation page that Miranda and Jeanie set up is collecting at a steady rate (and thank you so, so much to everyone who has donated – you guys are incredibly sweet and generous and I appreciate it on 8 or 9 different levels), and I’m thinking about the things I have that could be sold to help pay for the vet bills. I love my electronics a little too much to part with any of them, but I DO have something else that might bring in some money – gooooooooold. I have a fairly substantial collection of gold jewellery in various karats just sitting around taking up space. I don’t know how much it would be worth as scrap, but it can’t hurt to find out. If I can get some money for the shiny things I don’t/can’t wear (be they broken, ill-fitting, or awkward to explain) that will go towards keeping Sasha healthy, then it would be the sensible thing to do. In a sick sort of way, it’ll be an adventure. Hooray for new experiences, even if they’re the kind of experience that usually comes right before selling a kidney or some plasma!

Anyone want to buy an egg? I have eggs!

So, how do you sell gold?

Holy shit, I’ve been writing this post since 10am. I really need to stop getting pulled into meetings.