Good and Bad

The good news is that I found our sick cat, Scar, Tuesday night. He was laying in the hay field across the road from our house. Apparently it had become so hard for him to breathe that the exertion of walking back home was just too much for him to handle. So I scooped him up and carried him home while he purred happily. The bad news is that the vet examined him yesterday and showed me the x-rays of his little body, which is now filled with fluid (and I do mean filled...his chest and abodomen are full which is why he can't breathe well...no room for air) due to a condition called Feline Infectious Peritonitus. Its caused by a virus (vet said he's probably had this since he was born and that is common) and is incurable. There are a couple things we are trying to see if it will help him breathe better (a shot of anitbiotic and a shot of diuretic, which are seeming to help) but eventually he will die from it. So while we're happy to have him home, it's just a waiting game now to see how much longer we have him.