{"id":12462,"date":"2024-01-31T22:28:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T03:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12462"},"modified":"2024-01-31T22:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T03:28:28","slug":"rufus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12462","title":{"rendered":"Rufus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This here is our ~11 year old cat Rufus. Exact age unknown as he was a stray when we adopted him back in early autumn 2014, but he was assessed to be about 1 year old back then.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12463\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/rufus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/rufus.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/rufus-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This picture was taken late last night. Today, Rufus had an ultrasound that confirmed what we feared: That not only does he have a tumor in his abdomen, but that it is inoperable, and chemotherapy is also unlikely to help.<\/p>\n<p>So we are left with the final option: Palliative care, taking care of Rufus as long as we can, so long as he can still have some quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>So far so good. Tonight, despite the hours-long stay at the vet, Rufus came home ready to eat a little, drink a little, even play a little. So it&#8217;s one day at a time, all the while recognizing that in this increasingly troubled world, we are among the lucky ones, so long as our main concern is the welfare of our cat.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12462' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This here is our ~11 year old cat Rufus. Exact age unknown as he was a stray when we adopted him back in early autumn 2014, but he was assessed to be about 1 year old back then. This picture was taken late last night. Today, Rufus had an ultrasound that confirmed what we feared: <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12462' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-personal","category-7-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12464,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462\/revisions\/12464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}