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This is the journal of moggymania's little gray guy, Bastian. (He's listed as "Sebastian" on all of his medical charts because nobody grasps "Bastian" the first several times. Then again, he's also listed as a female for some unknown reason, despite all attempts by the staff to fix that.)

In early March 2006, she found him collapsed in the upstairs hallway at 5:30am, unable to move his hind legs, not reacting at all to having them touched. Within a very short period, however, he started slowly being able to use them again, so when they went to the emergency vet hospital, nobody other than Moggy seriously believed he had the cardiac condition known as saddle thrombosis. A tech misreported results from the chest x-ray that would have told the vets what was truly going on, leading them to possibly misinterpret crucial bloodwork...

One week later, after repeated hospitalizations and tests, Bastian was tenatively dx'ed with liver-involved lymphoma. The vets basically told Moggy to take him home and keep him comfortable, since he wasn't expected to live long. She returned once because he was acting like he was in pain and breathing rapidly; he was given painkillers, then sent home with an as-needed pain prescription.

In early April, he went into severe respiratory distress again, this time not responding to the pain meds. He was held for cardiac tests as his heart was skipping wildly, then diagnosed (after a correctly-read x-ray this time) with unspecified myocardial myopathy, blood clots, severe atria enlargement, and congestive heart failure. Surprisingly, after a lot of medication on-site and a few days resting, he recovered well enough to come home, now with new heart meds -- and the possibility that he didn't have cancer at all.

Since then, he has been diagnosed and put onto high doses of medication for severe ventricular arrythmia, plus had his congestive heart failure medication upped a few times. He was in the hospital briefly in very late April with a respiratory infection that was likely causing cardiac distress, then sent home. That's the latest as of the creation of this LJ -- updates will go into new entries from here on out.

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