Worried

George is spending the night in the kitty hospital tonight.  He's been doing better since I wrote about him last time.  His skin is looking 90% better.  Today we had beautiful weather here.  A healthy George will spend most of his time outside on a nice day.  He slept most of the morning and didn't go outside until around 2:00.  I noticed that he seemed unsteady on his feet . . . like a little old person.  He seemed to be walking as if in pain, but when he paused on all fours, he rocked back and forth.

I encouraged him to walk toward me, trying to decide what was going on with him.  He didn't really want to walk around much and instead, went to his usual hidy hole under some juniper bushes.  I checked on him again about an hour later and he was vomiting.  When I called his name, he took off under the junipers, as if he didn't want me to bother him.

Managing to get around to the other side of him where I could see his face, I noticed that he was experiencing
nystagmus, which is a back and forth movement of the eyes, indicating dizziness.  He was also bobbing his head back and forth.  That freaked me out and I called the vet immediately.

She was able to see him right away after I called.  She's taken a look at his ears, since an ear infection would explain everything.  (The vomiting can be explained by the dizziness.)  His ears are clear, and so she's keeping him overnight to fast him and then draw some blood tomorrow.  We'll know something, hopefully, by tomorrow afternoon.

There's a lot more I could say about his health history, but I'll just leave it at that.  We'll know more tomorrow. I've worried that we might not have George much longer because he has some pretty serious health problems.  We've done as much as we can to keep him as long as we can, but at his age, anything could happen.  We'll just have to wait and see what his blood work shows and hope it's something that can be treated.