Oh my God, it's 90 degrees and I have the heat on! This is what I thought when I went to lift the blinds a little higher, now that
the morning sun had passed. A great wave of heat was coming up from the radiator under the window. But
upon closer inspection I found that the radiator was cold (so to speak) and
that the heat was not rising from there, but was sitting just outside the
window,wanting to come in. This explains
why Spanish homes are so dark. They keep
their blinds down and windows closed during the day to keep the heat out. I can’t do that. I don’t like a dark house and it's too humid to keep the windows closed. At least when they're open there is a chance, albeit a very small chance, of some breeze coming in. So I compromise. I keep the shades lower than usual until the sun passes
but the windows remain open.
Felix endured another blood test this week to see how
his kidneys were performing. Turns out
they are performing the same as when we did the last blood test a few weeks
ago. Thus he is no better but no worse
either. Vet says he has glomerular disease.
The vet says that when the kidneys start to
deteriorate, there is no going back. All
that we can do is try to keep it from getting worse. So we will continue with the special renal
diet that gives the kidneys less to filter, and we have put him on medication
that might also help in preventing more deterioration. All this may serve to maintain the status
quo, or it may not. If it does, that
could be for for only a short while, or for many years. The vet assures me that Felix is not in pain
(he doesn’t look like he’s in
pain). He doesn’t play like he used to and isn't as spirited,
but as long as it seems that he isn’t suffering and his quality of life is decent,
we will continue on with the treatment and hope for the best, whatever that
might be.
The good news is that Felix's pancreas, which the vet
thought was also malfunctioning, is OK.
The bad news is that it is hot and humid and so not only Felix,
but Minnie and I also don’t want to make any moves that aren't absolutely necessary.
We've got this heat up here too. I'm finally learning to shut things down but it's so hard to do. I don't want to spend all day in the dark! I'm glad Felix is holding his own. Tell him to sleep on the stone floor. It's cooler. I do!
ReplyDeleteIt's a tile floor here. And he does alternate between that, the dining table, and the balcony. Neither cat sleeps with me much these hot days.
DeleteI'm looking forward to the fall! Just another month or so...
Great that Felix isn't worse. I know what you mean about dark houses, but I must say that the day of Canberra's worst fires in 2003 when we lost around 500 houses many of us had our curtains closed. Trouble was you then couldn't see what was happening outside if you needed to.
ReplyDeleteGetting used to the dark, but then I don't lower the shutters all the way. That's terrible about the fire. We had one here too, although it didn't reach the city I live in, but it was close and had spread far in many directions. Here all we had was lots of smoke and then lots of soot and it was so dark during the day that it was almost as if the shutters were closed. (We were told to keep the windows closed, but nothing specifically about the shutters.) Very scarey. Far more scarey than the highways.
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