Quote - Acadia, when they get up around 18, a year or so either way is no less impressive! We need to mark the 6th on the calendar, so we can have a virtual kitty birthday party!

She's going to have Shrimp that day!

I almost lost her a year ago because she had an infected tooth but due to my being off on disability at the time and barely being able to keep a roof over my head I couldn't afford to have the tooth pulled and I was facing having to send her over the Rainbow Bridge :(. 

However,  thanks to a very generous stranger in Eastern Canada who stepped in and paid $700.00 for her surgery, she is now mostly toothless, but she's also no longer in pain and able to eat.

In the last year her health as declined a bit. She now needs a pill for her thyroid everyday and a potassium supplement, in addition to her high blood pressure pill.  She is in early stages of renal failure, but so far it isn't affecting her in a hugely negative capacity.

Ideally she should be on a renal diet, but she won't eat the food.  So my vet and I agree that it's best to just let her eat what she wants to eat, at least she is eating and gaining back some of the weight she has lost, rather than fight with her to eat something she doesn't like and starve herself into losing even more weight.
She still runs around like a kitten at times, and loves tormenting her baby sister.  And she is such a love bug.  If she had her way she would only be down on the ground to eat and go to the bathroom, all the rest of the time she wants to be in my arms.

 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi