Koomps

Koompa seems to be doing OK despite her mini seizures. For example, Frankie was eating noodles on the couch and Koompa tried to jump up onto the couch to grab them. Or, when I took her outside to pee yesterday she saw a squirrel and pounced forward to get it until she ended up face first in the snow. I know, snow. Snow. Its April 7th and we have snow. At least the forsythia are still in bloom. Anyhow at the veterinarians today, they said that koompa had some fluid in her lungs and her heart murmer sounded a bit worse, both indicative of congestive heart failure. I guess the Koompster is nearly 16 (over 100 in human years) so that was not totally surprising. There are two kinds of chf -- one caused by leaky valves and the other caused by enlarged heart. Koompa has the leaky valve kind, which is supposed to be the lesser of the two evils. I was relieved to know it wasnt some sort of cancer that had gone to her brain. I caved in and got an x-ray which showed no tumors but some fluid on the lungs. So, the vet gave us some meds to take the fluid down and to reduce the effort the heart has to give and said that if all things go well, Koomps could have another year in her. But then again he also said these things are unpredictable and she could have 2 weeks. Really all depends in the medicine works or not. I guess that is my report for the day. Im hoping the meds kick in. In other news? Poor Sparty.