Four Pounds Lighter

Grady went in for draining this afternoon. He growled a lot, and there was hissing. With less people in the room it went a lot easier. I hardly had to scruff him -- he was okay with me just holding onto his neck and forelegs. I am very grateful to Dr. K and kistha for helping me out with him.

This time around 25-30 60mL tubes' worth of fluid was drained from his abdomen. There was a little more time to do this (last time we were working with a hard deadline), so more was taken out. He looks very gaunt now, but is extremely energetic. When I let him out of his carrier at home he rubbed his face on everything and proceeded to jump on furniture a lot. He even spent some time riding on my shoulders. At one point I poked my head into the office to check in on him, only to find him up on my desktop sniffing around! CAT-LIKE TYPING DETECTED Holy crap!

He is now in his usual chair, licking his butt. I guess when you have a liter of fluid in your middle that inhibits your flexibility, some things don't get done very often. He's got some catching up to do.

I may have to have him drained again in a month. Let's hope the new diet continues to do good things for him.