9/01 Mikeco, the Cat 9
No one said so the last time we were here, just a couple of days ago ... .
Moreover, I got what-for by the doctor again who went on saying, 'Look, she's become jaundiced. Her skin's all yellow and the white part of her eyes has turned all yellow too. Can you see that? This is a terminal situation, you know,'.
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9/02 Mikeco, the Cat 10
Yes, I've done it again. I wasn't able to notice the changes in Mikeco's health condition again ... .
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9/03 Mikeco, the Cat 11
The doctor suggested us to have Mikeco's blood checked, as if to say 'though it's too late,' and the results hit me when I've already been down.
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9/04 Mikeco, the Cat 12
'I also checked if she has cat AIDS. I hate to have to tell you this, but she was positive,' the doctor said. Her words seem to hit the wall of the small examining room, bounce back like an echo, then reach my ears biting into them.
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9/05 Mikeco, the Cat 13
According to the doctor, cat AIDS was a sort of disease similar to human AIDS that gave serious damage to blood, which was considered to be the casuse of Mikeco's bad liver.
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9/06 Mikeco, the Cat 14
Mikeco lived mostly inside the house and rarely went outside, except when she took a brief walk around the garden, so the possibility of her being infected getting involved in some fights with other cats was thought to be less.
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9/07 Mikeco, the Cat 15
Additionally, Mikeco was originally a stray dumped in the middle of a field somewhere in Ikebukuro or Nerima, fortunate or unfortunate enough to be found and brought home to our house, so the doctor explained that her mother probably could have been infected by cat AIDS which must have been passed down to Mikeco.
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9/08 Mikeco, the Cat 16
The doctor informed me however, that cats are usually able to lead a normal life even after they'd become a carrier if the disease don't come out, and that some cats actually end their lives without falling sick. In fact, the doctor told me that her cat who had the same disease, lived up to 18 years old without falling sick until it died of age.
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9/09 Mikeco, the Cat 17
So there are cases that it doesn't come out. Then why Mikeco ... .
Though well, I admit that our place certainly wasn't good surroundings to live in.
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9/10 Mikeco, the Cat 18
I felt sorry about what had happened, but soon I felt that I wanted to let Mikeco spend the rest of her life somehow with less pain as possible, now that she's fallen ill.
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9/11 Mikeco, the Cat 19
Taking Mikeco to the veterinarian every day who no longer was able to eat any food, started like this from the very next day, in order to put her on a drip for nutrition and dosing.
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9/12 Mikeco, the Cat 20
It was true that I swore to myself I'd do everything I can to keep Mikeco away from pain as possible, but to tell the truth, this everyday taking-her-to-the-vet turned out to be unexpectedly hard work ... really, it did.
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9/13 Mikeco, the Cat 21
In fact, Mikeco was such a roughneck in the first place, that she wouldn't even let us touch her without getting into a fury.
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9/14 Mikeco, the Cat 22
Even until then, we usually had quite a fuss taking Mikeco to the veterinarian's, after all she was a roughneck who never allowed us to cut her nails at home. Now that we had to take her to the vet every day, it should be easy to imagine how tough it was.
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9/15 Mikeco, the Cat 23
It seems to be general for the veterinarians to tell the owners of such savage creatures, to 'bring them in a laundry net' (not to mention that we were told so too) however, Mikeco as she was an extraordinarily savage little creature, we usually had a hard time just putting her into the laundry net.
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9/16 Mikeco, the Cat 24
Incidentally, here's what happened before Mikeco had been diagnosed as 'Cat AIDS'.
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9/17 Mikeco, the Cat 25
That day, JoOusama left the house hurriedly from morning, since she had been summoned to Hime, my sister's, to look after her kids. And to my greatest pleasure, JoOusama summoned ME the important task of putting Mikeco into the laundry net, then pack her into a bag to take the animal to the veterinarian.
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9/18 Mikeco, the Cat 26
Mikeco already had a poor appetite around that time and because she hadn't been eating for a couple of days, I held out a slender hope that she might be weak enough to not fight back against me, but my hope crumbled away too easily ... .
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9/19 Mikeco, the Cat 27
Mikeco was curled up sleeping on her blanket that morning, but as I pulled out the laundry net to get it ready, maybe she smelt some difference in the air. She slowly raised her head and started to stare a hole in me ... uh-oh, red alert ...aiiieee!
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9/20 Mikeco, the Cat 28
Well, I still might be able get her in the net somehow, after all she wasn't moving yet ... , I thought, and attempted to throw the laundry net upon Mikeco covering her body and her head. Then I held both ends of the zipper in my hands to pull it towards myself, so as to sort of skim Mikeco into the net.
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9/21 Mikeco, the Cat 29
And then, it happened.
If it was because I forcefully dragged the ends I don't know, but Mikeco who sensed the abnormalness, started to threaten me with a terrible Hissssss!! ... .
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9/22 Mikeco, the Cat 30
Even so, I managed to pull over the mouth of the laundry net, Mikeco blanketed over with it. It was the moment when I thought that I was almost through, as I tried to zip close the mouth of the net.
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9/23 Mikeco, the Cat 31
With a menacing cry off 'PFFFffffffttt HhhiiSSsssss!!', Mikeco struck me a heavy blow with her right paw (!!!), reaching out from the mouth of the laundry net that still remained a little opened. And it turned out to be a clean hit to my left hand that was holding the end of the zipper, while I was trying to close it with the other!!
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9/24 Mikeco, the Cat 32
Mikeco's straight right hand hit me clean and her sharp claw bit into the base of my left index finger ... .
Yyyyeeeeeoooowwwwww!!!!
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9/25 Mikeco, the Cat 33
'Hey, what in the world do you think you're doing, huh,' I yelled at Mikeco before I knew I was.
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9/26 Mikeco, the Cat 34
HEEEEYYY! You should be glad that cat AIDS aren't infectious, you know!! What if your disease were infectious, huh!!!??
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9/27 Mikeco, the Cat 35
Speaking of getting infected, Tono has asked JoOusama what kind of disease the cat was suffering from, after Mikeco had already been diagnosed as cat AIDS. When JoOusama told him that Mikeco had cat AIDS, he seemed to have asked her back, &qot;does that cause infection in human?"... .
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9/28 Mikeco, the Cat 36
How could he be so worried about his own safety and only about his own safety? Well, actually he's desperate to add some years to his life even if it was just for a couple of years. He has never missed his walking for about an hour everyday, while he pays extra attention to his eating habit ... well at least he thinks he does.
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9/29 Mikeco, the Cat 37
Though to me his diet seems to be high-salted and he also seems to be eating one of those quick-cooking noodles quite often. I don't see how such an eating habit could help him live longer. Oooops, I got sidetracked a bit, let me get back to the story about the cat.
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9/30 Mikeco, the Cat 38
Now, Mikeco went into a frenzy losing control of herself completely."NNggiiaaaooooowwww," she let out a strange but enoumously loud cry, then started to attempt a furious catch-up throwing a volley of punches.
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