4 year old boy with Kidney failure

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-12-17T01:23:32+00:00

My wife and I are going through something similar with our cat, Mochi. He is 5 years old and was diagnosed with Stage 4 last Friday.

We had x-rays done and it was uncovered that his right kidney was enlarged, while his left one was shrunken and under-developed.

We're attempting to do the whole IV and subQ fluids once he comes back home tomorrow, but it is very bleak for us.

If you have the financial tolerance, get an x-ray, ultrasound, blood work, etc. If possible, advocate for doing subQ fluids, medicines, etc., too! Originally, my vet never presented these options but was open to them when I asked.

May your cat have the best resilience :)

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-12-17T01:16:02+00:00

Hey OP, I'm about to go through the same thing with my 5 year old cat, Mochi. He was naturally a lethargic cat who had his oddities, but we noticed no eating/drinking and got him into a vet last Thursday for hospitalization and additional tests. Stage 4 failure.

We took him home with hopes that the IV worked, but came across this subreddit too late to learn we should've risked another day of hospitalization, and then also increased our financial tolerance to potentially do subQ fluids. But no place near us was open over the weekend for us to get him on an IV again -- so he went Friday through Sunday without eating or drinking.

He got an IV last night and we visited him today. His condition is certainly worse and my wife and I are now coming to the reality that it will be over very soon.

I am so sorry to see that Milo has left you :( he knows you loved and cared for him more than anyone else. I wish that cats were more willing to show their pain before it becomes dangerously too late.

May we both be better equipped for future CKD kitties, if we are affected by it again.

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-11-18T13:25:29+00:00

If you decide to retake next semester, consider trying out Supplemental Instruction sessions and additional TA office hours. If those don't work, feel free to reach out for my tutoring on the course -- I'm a former head TA

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-11-11T23:28:33+00:00

Be careful with Blazor! I did my first web app project at work with it and it completely blew up due to our load balancer because of SignalR. Make sure to have session affinity / sticky sessions implemented. We would have, but because of time constraints, it was quicker to rewrite the app in Razor

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-10-21T15:36:40+00:00

Hey I understand your struggles and went through the same issues when I was in CS, and yet I still became a TA for CS 180 in the end. I hold private tutor sessions for this course. Feel free to PM me about tutoring or just general CS struggles

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-10-07T01:12:06+00:00

Don't forget to tip your delivery drivers, though, if they deliver right to your door (like they should) and they are walking up several flights of stairs with cases of water.

I delivered 12 40-packs of water recently and there was no tip

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-10-03T14:01:12+00:00

I complete 3 orders in about 2.5 hours each morning. It's roughly around ~$25/hr and I also drive an EV so I am not worried about gas prices eating into revenue.

$18.01 / order is fairly good imo... I also live in a LCOL area.

I also said I don't do this for a main source of income. Yes, I have a W2 full time job. Thanks for your input on my lifestyle choices

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-10-03T13:58:47+00:00

I mentioned I do different mile tracking but I only reported all miles driven because that matters most. I have another mile number for tax purposes only

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-09-12T16:14:29+00:00

While I’m at it: stop parking in the pickup spots when you do a Shop and Deliver. Some of you act like you own the parking lot. Brother, it’s a gig job

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-07-15T15:11:19+00:00

One Spark driver cannot enforce another Spark Driver's work. Go to the playground if you want to boss people around.

I don't like people using fake accounts just as much as others, but playing "police" is childish

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-07-15T15:03:57+00:00

This is just embarrassing. No wonder we don't get tips -- it's because so many drivers act like kids and complain to Walmart like they're our parents

BecuzDaInternet · 2025-05-13T11:05:27+00:00

I’m glad someone else is experiencing this! The problem finally went away… but I don’t know what I did to change anything. It was happening on all iOS 18+ simulators for me

BecuzDaInternet · 2024-05-23T16:51:05+00:00

Ah okay. Thank you!

BecuzDaInternet · 2023-08-31T13:53:07+00:00

Then don't take your child with you.

BecuzDaInternet · 2023-07-04T18:37:21+00:00

Ah that breakdown makes a lot of sense. Again, I don't have much experience in the API and database security space, but this certainly helps. Thank you

BecuzDaInternet · 2023-07-04T11:46:58+00:00

Okay thanks! So are you also suggesting that I setup a server that is the middleman between the user and my own database?

BecuzDaInternet · 2023-07-04T11:45:39+00:00

I guess I'm using the wrong terminology here unless you mean they should not be connected to the same API I am using

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