makbike-

So sorry to hear about your bike and your kitty - I can sympathize - we have the 10k cat (just in "extraordinary" vet care). He's had a broken leg (plate installed),surgery for a lump, the radioactive iodine treatment and most recently bladder and kidney stones (2 surgeries). Poor little guy - but he's my shadow. Follows me everywhere. It wasn't even a consideration to not do it - though way back when, when I told the vet to plate his leg, I had *no idea* how I was going to pay for it - maxed every credit card I had and took extra student loans. Those were the days.

If you do need the thyroid treatment, do yourself a favor and leave him there the whole 2 weeks. Litter requires special handling and you can't be around him more than 20-30 minutes per day anyway. Mine had an upset stomach, so we had to deal with radioactive well...you can imagine! Since the treatment, no problmes with the thyroid.

Keep us posted on how he's doing!!