It isn't good news.

Took Sabra to the vet yesterday.  He was dehydrated and got fluids.
He has cataracts and other eye problems.  She thought she felt a small
mass in his stomach area, and he is constipated.  He is down to 7.5
pounds.

She ran bloodwork, which took three tries to get, as his veins are so
small and tend to collapse.  The results show anemia and an elevated
level of one of the liver enzymes.  He still isn't eating hardly at
all, either.  I am going to run him back in today to get more fluids
in him with penicillin, just in case it is a systemic infection that
can be treated and not cancer, which I think is what both the vet and
I suspect.  We're going to give him an appetite stimulant, and I am
going to force-feed him if I have to, which I hate to do.  But this is
the last possibility that he may be all right, so I have to try.  If
it is not an infection, then it is probably cancer, and there is
nothing I can do about it.  He is too fragile for surgery or treatment
of any kind, and I don't want to put my tough ol' bird through that.

I had to spend $140 yesterday out of my dental fund, and it will be
more today.  We have our backs to the wall financially right now, but
I have to try to help Sabra if there is any chance.  And if this does
not do it, then I will have to accept the inevitable.

Please send purrs our way if you are so inclined.

A very sad

Ginger-lyn

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