By Dr. Kris Chandroo, DVM, MSc, HBSc
If you are caring for a cat with kidney disease, I already know something about you. You are trying.Continue Reading
CKD
New Video Course: Dr. Kris’s CKD Master Guide: What Not to Miss to Help Your Cat Eat, Stabilize and Stay with You Longer
Over the last few months, many of you have told me how much Dr. Kris’s posts on this website and his book Nine Lives, One Mission: Vet Approved Home Treatments for Cats with CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) have helped your cats, and have helped you cope with a CKD diagnosis. Dr. Kris’s new video course takes everything you’ve learned in the book and in his posts to the next level.Continue Reading
Letting Go of Perfection: You Don’t Have to Get CKD Care 100 Percent Right
By Dr. Kris Chandroo, DVM, MSc, HBSc
A compassionate reminder from the world of Nine Lives, One Mission (NLOM): If your cat is living with chronic kidney disease (CKD,) you’ve likely realized something important:
Cat care isn’t about perfect days. It’s about responding to what your cat needs today. And that’s exactly how it should be, because perfection is not the standard.Continue Reading
“BITE” Strategy for the Soul: Emotional Resilience for the CKD Cat Caregiver
By Dr. Kris Chandroo, DVM, MSc, HBSc
There is a strange overlap between caring for a cat with chronic kidney disease and caring for your own bruised, bewildered, still-beating heart. You would think they are separate categories, neatly stored in different filing cabinets of life, but anyone who has ever loved an animal knows that caregiving has a way of collapsing the distance between soul and science.Continue Reading
The Moment You Hear “CKD”: Grief, Guilt, and the Sudden Weight of Love
By Dr. Kris Chandroo, DVM, MSc, HBSc
I had just taken over a case from a colleague who had moved on to another vet clinic. There were numbers everywhere, neat little boxes of bloodwork and urine results, and a blood pressure reading series that needed to be conveyed by phone.
“Dr. Kris, can’t you just tell me what my cat has?” the owner asked. “Your cat has CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease,) and we can help him!,” I told him. ” Let’s talk about it.”Continue Reading