Official Sunday weigh-in: MAZY CAT HAS GAINED AN OUNCE!
I will keep on with the .5 oz extra daily intake. Will wait for the blood work results. (no earlier than Tuesday, possibly not until Wednesday, I think)
If thyroid and glucose are normal I will discuss the EPI tests (for pancreatic insufficiency) next.
In the meantime when the Nutricology pork pancreas comes I'll start her on that. It will have to be just a tiny pinch of it at a time so it will be slow going to get her up to a full capsule a day.
The past two weeks I've been adding a shred of Tiki cat to her lunch meal every day. Soon I will increase that to a shred in lunch and one other meal, and so on. When the By Nature organic runs out in March I want her body to be ready to accept the Tiki, I hope. The ultimate plan is 3.3 ounces Rad Cat and one ounce Tiki. Or 1.5 ounces of Tiki if she continues to need extra food.
I just can't bring myself to put her on full Rad Cat. If ever she, or I, need to be hospitalized, her body needs to be used to canned food of some kind.
I'd love to use MPC pancreas. It just comes back to the same old excuse. I just do not have the freezer space at this time.
As it is right now I am so crammed and crowded I am risking botulism or some other awful disease on some of my own food (soup, mac and cheese casserole, apple sauce) because it is in the "drawer" under the stupid ice box freezer, which is not really cold enough to keep frozen foods completely frozen. But I needed room for my frozen turkey breast for thanks giving. Tomorrow I can take that out to start thawing in the fridge and can put the other foods back into the freezer part.
I have been over my apartment a trillion times. I cannot work out any place to put another freezer. I'm starting to wonder if I should ask my landlord if he'd let me put one in his store.