Previously, on "The My Cat is Difficult Show"...

We've had an escalation of Polly behavior: she's now having bloody urinary accidents all over the house, including on housemates. She had a little incident on risu overnight.

This is now on the scale of her behavior prior to her bladder stones incident ten years ago, which concerns the hell out of me, since if she's having a resurgence of this that'll mean surgery that solarbird and I cannot afford. I am also deeply concerned that this just may be indicative of some kind of kidney failure that I won't be able to get dealt with either, just on the grounds that she's old.

Either way, she needs to be seen today. I have gotten an appointment scheduled for her this morning at the Woodinville Veterinary Hospital, recommended by kathrynt. Hopefully they'll be able to clue me in on a course of action to take, and if this is something that could be helped by antibiotics (just a seriously nasty infection of some kind), recommend one that we can get Polly to take without her throwing up.

My cat is even more Difficult

I have just gotten back from dropping Polly off at the Veterinary Specialty Center, because it's turned out that the Woodinville Veterinary Hospital couldn't help Polly at all today. She was just too damned fractious, and plus, they don't have the ability to keep her overnight anyway. The doctor there initially tried to just have me come bring her home, but I explained to him that she was in obvious distress (I mean, for chrissake, urinating on my housemates), and so trying to just schedule another regular appointment somewhere else was not an option.

The emergency vet initially tried to tell me about the same strategy that Ravenna and Woodinville both tried, i.e., leaving her alone for a little while and hoping she'll calm down enough to give a proper sample, so I had to shoot that idea down too. At this point, two different vets have tried to handle Polly without heavy sedation and it's been impossible. So I've authorized the emergency place to do whatever they need to do to figure out what's wrong with her and what can be done about it, including heavy sedation and an ultrasound.

I've had to pay a perfectly ridiculous amount of money to do it, too, which is stressing me out, but by now I just want to know. I can't deal with any more go-arounds of the same fruitless visits. And I can't deal with my cat's being in obvious distress. At home is not the place for her to be until that distress can be relieved.

So here's hoping this time somebody can get me some answers.