Gallifrey One

There's going to be a dance. Thank _god_.

I may have to wear a dress; in part because it tends to startle people after I've been walking around in drag for a few days (and I have some great dresses -- remember the one from Terminus?) and because it occurs to me that (and this is funny considering th historic dance hobby) I have no idea how to dance to modern music when dressed like a guy. At all. So we just won't be having that. Also, true facr: I am incapable of turning down any excuse to wear an evening gown.

Now if only the full programming schedule would come out and someone would let me know if I'm doing anything for it.

ugh

It's raining.
I have a cold.
I'm on the rag.

just in case anyone missed it

Do your worst.

[For my visually impaired readers: picture is an advertisement for a hotel discount that makes all sorts of Doctor Who references -- there's a Tardis-blue suitcase, the legs of some dude in pin-striped slacks and chucks, and a horrible pink color used for a recent companion's clothes. The Internet is assuming a geeky designer put one over on their clients, but we actually have no idea. We might just be crazy.]

cat medical drama continued

So Little is going to have an ultrasound today and then I'll get to bring her home, with food aimed at controlling her weight/dissolving the stone.

But now there is MORE DRAMA.

The doctor sees a pronounced thickening in her colon and small intestine. He does not see a discrete mass and therefore does not think there is a tumor; however, she might have some sort of lymphatic cancer causing this. He also thinks a likely (perhaps most likely) candidate is that it's some sort of inflamatory bowel disease, which generally responds to treatment.

Depending on what the ultrasound looks like, she may need a biopsy done by endoscopy. If it is lymphatic cancer, it is probably not treatable, but tends to respond well to cortisol shots. If it is the inflammatory bowel disease, that can be treated and she'll be just fine.

He also said it could be any number of other things, but those are all rare and too much of a crapshoot to mention.

We won't know about the ultrasound results until Thursday night.

Right now this is all cheaper than the initial surgery plan, but in the long term if she needs more tests or a biopsy it's hard to know.

She's 13, and I'm not freaking out yet, but this is definitely getting very stressful.

She has lost 1lb since her last visit, but whether that's the result of me exercising her more and trying to control her diet or related to all this medical excitement no one can tell. He asked me a lot about her puking and bowel habits, both of which have always been messy but not alarming, so who knows what to make of any of that(although reading about other people's bouts with cat IBD, Little's behaviors seem to fit that).