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She starts to do well and I lower her diuretics, but then the problems with the toxic fumes from the neighbours will get us and I'm too slow to get her inside. And she deteriorates immediately. I was on the phone when it happened about 4 days ago. She is back on maximum dose diuretics as a result. I have now relocated all the cats to a temporary home until I can find us a home to move to. I sleep there and feed them but I don't have internet access. I only moved them last night. I had Josie's blood tested on Saturday. They were good. Her thyroid is 35. Over 60 is hyperthyroid. Her T4 in march was 87. She still needs her heart medication. I'm hoping that in the new environment, her heart thickening may reverse. (It is unlikely) Ideally her T4 should be under 30. There is a chance that over 30 is pre hyperthyroid.

She starts to do well and I lower her diuretics, but then the problems with the toxic fumes from the neighbours will get us and I'm too slow to get her inside. And she deteriorates immediately. I was on the phone when it happened about 4 days ago. She is back on maximum dose diuretics as a result. I have now relocated all the cats to a temporary home until I can find us a home to move to. I sleep there and feed them but I don't have internet access. I only moved them last night. I had Josie's blood tested on Saturday. They were good. Her thyroid is 35. Over 60 is hyperthyroid. Her T4 in march was 87. But she still needs her heart medication. I'm hoping that in the new environment, her heart thickening may reverse.

Josie's suffered heart failure from the radioactive iodine treatment. I had an echocardiogram done on her last week, and they believe she had cardiomyopathy prior to treatment and it wasn't picked up. She had a grade 2/6 heart murmur prior to treatment, which normally goes away once she's cured from hyperthyroidism, and now it's a grade 4/6, which means she suffered some heart failure. She was drinking excessively when she came home as her lungs were filling with fluid. She's now on diuretics, and an ace inhibitor called Fortekor, and she's been given maximum 3months prognosis. I've put her on a several supplements and she really has a better quality of life due to them, but she has difficulty breathing (not that you would know it in the photo). She does a lot of stretching. That shaved area is where they put the instrument to do the echocardiogram.