well good afternoon everyone eric here from nomadic fanatic thanks for joining me i do have
some updates to share with you we're gonna we're gonna talk more about jax and his health here
at the end of the video um but real quick it's been difficult it has been a very very
difficult four days here although i've had plenty of distractions with getting a new harley
and stuff like that uh but because of jax's health that's why uh i've been staying back in
east alton here in my shop for the last few days waiting desperately to try to get an appointment
with a veterinarian which has been a lot more difficult but we got it taken care of tomorrow
like i said first of all we got a project going on here as you can see my cargo trailer here got
some green tape on it you see so i have some leftover paint from when i redid the stripes
on miranda here at the shop so how about we just continue this theme right into the trailer yeah
is it going to be perfect no am i doing everything wrong of course so definitely don't do what i do
blah blah blah but i've done this before with some pretty good success actually it turned out
really really well so um i'm gonna be deciding which colors are going to go i got the black the
gray and the brown to put in here and i think it's going to look really good and then in the
end i may even put a harley davidson decal here on the back of the trailer but first of all hey
look look who it is my buddy robert king's auto shop he brought his truck up here to uh help me
and deliver tater tots i got tater tot back here at the shop now and uh we're gonna clean
the surface with some alcohol here and then pick the colors roll it on and uh should be pretty cool
all right so that's uh three coats of brown
this will be gray that'll be the black same as over there three coats looks really really
good can't wait any longer i'm gonna peel some of this tape and see how it turned out
all right after giving it some thought i made a couple changes to the paint on the trailer
but damn oh my gosh that looks so good so this black stripes new uh beefed up this
brown one and that black one over there and uh you know i can't believe how good that looks
maybe it only looks good let me stand back this way it looks good because
it blends right into the rv all these stripes start from the nose and then
keep going coming back and then this it just adds to it right man that is gorgeous and
later on i am definitely going to put a harley decal on the back of this i think we'll see
yeah is it perfect heck no heck no but up close and i mean we're going to give it what two three
months let the awk let the paint breathe and everything before adding some some gloss to it
we got some noisy vehicles out here holy cow but yeah i think that really turned out well and i'm
happy with it it's a hundred percent better than just white 100 better than white next jax man
um i said in my last video and i talked about the harley davidson that he's doing better that's true
he's doing better he's he's venturing away from the food bowl and the blue towel he's drinking
an insane amount of water and has lost a ton of weight i mean i could not recognize him i saw i
saw one of my earlier posts from like two three years ago he looks half the size that he was
however it's been really really really difficult to get an appointment with a veterinarian here
in missouri in illinois plus they're still doing the whole drop-off thing the same thing i did the
emergency room you drop your cat off and you wait for a phone call it's it's terrible it
it's it doesn't work for me and jax doesn't like being alone without me it just didn't go well so
i was just really sad about it until sean my buddy here at modified auto he actually got me into a
vet to see tomorrow so tomorrow we're going to a normal vet who's going to do a full examination
do a hopefully a blood test we can get back same day and i get to be there with jax so this will be
different than the emergency vet hopefully a lot cheaper too because that was that was expensive
but i'm happy that's what we're working on right now because jax is jax has actually declined
since my last video go see him real quick i mean there's nothing to really see this is his new spot
he just lays underneath the gas pedal and brake pedal there hi baby we love you jax we certainly
love you but he won't even let me pet him when he stands up to get a drink of water
he just scoots down and scrunches to the floor to the lowest possible point won't let me touch him
he growls when tara comes near she's around here too i think she just crawled into the other
you okay buddy yeah i'm talking about you we're gonna go see a vet tomorrow
okay hopefully we can get some better answers it's just been incredibly difficult for me um
i don't know definitely one of the craziest emotional weeks i've had
tara has been really super supportive and she's not been being mean to him
so there's at least that but i need some answers to find out what's going on with my
cat and i think y'all pet owners are probably thinking the same thing um
we're gonna we're gonna look into diabetes and see if maybe that's that's one of the issues because
going from 26 and a half pounds to now under 20 well we'll find out tomorrow we're going to get
him weighed i didn't even get a weight when we went to the er all they want to say is if the
if the cat's not dying and they said no there's no immediate threat of him dying overnight so
we're going to get some better answers tara you've been such a good sister you've been such a good
sister to your jack's brother yeah okay oh good girl what a sweetie what a precious little girl
yeah some people said you know i don't pet tara enough i don't i don't love on her enough
she knows she's she's still warming up we we've only been buddies here for five months here now
but she does like being pet she she loves to cuddle maybe not all the time she loves to play
maybe maybe she'll let me rub her belly you're not going to let me rub the belly oh that was
kind of an offer yep she's going to let me rub the belly and then she gives me kisses and then
she then she gives me some scratches and then some more kisses and then she says i'm done i'm
done okay so since i get to be with jax at the vet tomorrow i'll bring my iphone in and we'll find
out together here okay all right all right buddy you ready we're gonna go get a second opinion okay
they're gonna take good care of you here okay and daddy is gonna be right here with you
you don't believe me all go try it out honey is that better with this down that way you
don't have anxiety issues it was a good boy yeah your good boy would get some treats later okay
all right all right so we just talked with the vet tech who just took all of our information
she knows the whole story she knows you want to do blood work and test do like a senior
panel on jackson find out something she knows about the weight loss and the fact that i can
feel the bones on jax's back when i when he lets me pet him so um and and they get blood work back
in one day so we'll find out tomorrow but we're gonna we're gonna check his teeth we're gonna
check his ears we're gonna there this is gonna be a lot better than that emergency room visit
in kansas they're gonna they're gonna take good care of them here today we'll see what they say
i took a little break before uh deciding to make a video because it's been emotional for me in fact
the whole last week has been emotional here for my kitty cat jax um unfortunately i still
don't have all the answers i wanted um but we're gonna get some answers in 24 hours
well let me get you caught up because i there was a lot of talking between me and the vet tech and
the veterinarian because everywhere i go it's a new vet on the road it's just the life i live but
you know we talked about all of jax's long-term and short-term health records and everything
going on with him and i i feel that this new vet had a really good understanding
and knew about everything so uh the first thing we did was we weighed jax before we go into that
though you guys know from this channel that jax and i have been working on weight loss for nearly
three years now uh carefully calculating his intake to one cup of dry food everything the vets
have been telling me to do we slowly saw him creep down from 28.2 pounds which is an overweight cat
to 26 and then 24 and 22 and you guys remember this last february just six months ago he was
i think 20.4 or 20.6 pounds and we knew the next time we weighed him next year he's going to be
in the teens closer to what he's supposed to weigh but we weighed him today six months after
he weighed 20 pounds and jax weighs 11 pounds my poor boy weighs only 11 pounds that's why i
can feel the bones in the back of his spine and so the veterinarian was real honest said we need
to do an instant rapid blood test right now they drew a little bit of blood from him and tested
it instantly for diabetes which is what if you look at the comments in my last video that's what
90 percent of my viewers all said he's got diabetes i'm a professional blah blah well
guess what again came back negative jax does not have diabetes at all that's not what's going on
however they're they're going to be doing this uh blood thing they sent out they're going to
get the results tomorrow and 24 hours from now i'll know because they're going to test for his
kidney functions his kidneys his his liver they're going to test the thyroid which is another thing
i'm kind of thinking might be the issue because of some of the symptoms and stuff i i can't speculate
i'm not going to speculate the only thing i know for sure is jax weighs 11 pounds okay
and um i got a lot of emotions going on right now so i'm gonna take a look at this picture this is
when jax first got home and we just laid in the bathroom with the bandages where they drew the
blood and now he's back under the driver's seat by the gas pedal down there just kind of avoiding me
and tara and um i i don't know guys and this is really really really difficult for me and
it's strange sharing all this information on the public stage where you've all been following jax
and i and it's just like man i'll get you updated on the next video guys be patient with me
hmm