The Day Before the Day!

 Kitties!  My favorite brovver is coming home here from NC.  He's having to come home for Mom's birthday three weeks early as that is all he can do.  Can't wait to see him.  Mom bought his favorite chess bars (makes mom swoon to taste them...and then she rolls all over the floor just like me!) They are SO good.  One of our local markets makes those and many other candies and cakes there on-site.  Kitties! Woofies, Mom can't tell you how fantastically good they are.  She said she couldn't find strong enough words to say how good they are.

Mom and I found this and loved it.  Knew you would too.  

Mom's knee is still killing her.  She goes to the best Therapy place there is.  (Really, they are.)  Yesterday he decided to tape her knee.   Mom never heard of that but when he got finished she walked as though nothing had happened.  (This group is all Ph.D. in Therapy..seriously) 

Now.  Do you think the chicken will tell the questioner the answer he is busting to know?  (and betray chickens everywhere with the tell?)  I say not. 

Hate to tell you but Mom had baked chicken breast last night and she loved every bite.  Don;t tell the chickens.

Mom is headed to the grocery...then I will get brushies.  I'm dictating from my napping place..I''ll see her later. 

SPARK on Monday

Every Monday is the day to share a thought – we call them SPARKS.  “SPARKS” was started by Annie McGuffy of McGuffy’s Reader but ended when she stopped blogging some time ago. It was meant to be a way to start out each week with a meaningful thought – something that spoke to each of us and hopefully everyone else who reads it. Although Annie isn’t currently blogging,  a lot of us who enjoyed her SPARKS decided to keep posting SPARKS of our own.    Feel free to join us – SPARKS are fun to find and share and think about and the more the merrier.     Just post a thought on Mondays and perhaps your “followers will follow” 

This Spark flew off the screen and embedded itself into my thoughts.  I hope you like it too.  I was actually excited to find it.   Someone reading this today knows how excited I became.  I wrote her with great anticipation of today and with gladness!   I have not yet posted a Spark.  I have responded to many, but I haven't found one myself that resonated with me.  This one did.  

Think about this Spark perhaps.  So simple and so true.  

 

So Far So Good (we think)

Kitties!!  Your purrs and prayers and lovins and words have made a huge difference in mine and Mom's attitude.  We are trying to get thru it all.  

I have a follow-up on September 4.  We'll find out how the abscess and red inflamed gums are then.  If all is well, serious thought has to be made about getting me to the University Veterinary Hospital.  And all kidney care to start.  I am not eating the kidney food yet but I will.  I wasn't eating anything hardly,  and Mom is giving me anything (within reason) that I will eat.  I am hoping hard that I have not lost more weight by the time I go in for my follow-up.  

Mom is walking much much better with the physical therapy  she is having.  She even went out on  the two very cool mornings we did have (the hots are coming again this coming week) and with the therapist's permission, took a walk.  A VERY slow walk.  Only half a mile.  And he had told her "you won't hurt your knee...but it WILL hurt you.  So you know."  Kitties!  Mom about needed crutches that time, it hurt so badly when she got home; and all the day till she got into bed.  Darned if she didn't feel better when she got up the next morning, yesterday,  and she went right back up there for a mile.  She gave it a rest today.  But...she'll have to go again.  Aerobics are too much right now.  So, Mom is a little better, I am a little better and we are doing our best.  These are baby walks for her. 

Ow Ow Ow Ow Owwwww

This is so sweet.  

Made it most of the way.  Owwwwwwww

New Day, New Post

 Kitties, I ate an entire can of Fancy Feast by noon and started another.  I got 2/3's through that one.  Since I lost 6 pounds in a couple of years. I will eat when and what I like.  OH, and mom laid her cottage cheese with peaches aside to move papers for me, and I got right into that bowl until she quietly took it away and looked up whether I could have any.  I am hungry to do THAT.

I am sleeping in my bed, my cat tree, and not constantly UTB or curled on the floor. When I see Mom, I purr loudly.  I always did, but now, it sounds way louder.  And I snuggle for all the smoochies I can get.  I was pasted to mom's face and neck last night.  I woke her this morning with the sound of my hard ball I love slamming into the baseboard.  You should have seen her sit straight up when she heard it.  Made her morning.

I have answered everyone in the comment section who has commented here in the blogs these days with their kind, tender, and loving comments to me, and given me their purrs and prayers.  Wish I could find an ever stronger way to reply so you'd know.  

Meanwhile, as you know I still have things to deal with.  My KD-- and waiting to get my radioactive treatment for hyperthyroidism. 

 Look who *I* decided needed a bath!  DONKEY! 

Me napping in my beddie finally.  See my paw prints on the floor? 

This is a blog hop

Well, I wanted it to be a blog hop...something is going wrong...here on my end I am sure.

KITTIES!

 Kitties, Woofies, I am feeling better!  My purr is VERY loud and starts as soon as I see Mom even across the room....even though she was a turncoat and hauled me to the Vet again.   Did you see the beautiful picture Miss Ann created for us for August Friends time?  LOOK!!! 💓

Didn't she make me bee-yoo-tee-full? 

I want to tell you also that I feel better!  Mom said my breath wasn't nearly as bad last night.  She thought I needed a tooth cleaning but nothing was said in April at exam time.  The shot of Convenia seems to be working.  I am happy...I smacked my hard jingle ball up against the baseboard at 6 this morning and Mom sat straight up in bed! She smiled as she knew I was playing.  I had a great litterbox report for her too.!  I ate a lot yesterday and doing well so far today.   Now I still have KD and I will go have my Iodine 131 before much longer.  Waiting to see if my gums are better and the abscess knocked back.  Teddy and I had a romantic dinner at his Royal mansion yesterday See Saturday's post over there.  And I am hoping for Kozmo UTB tonight.  He has a bow tie that won't quit!  See his post today. 

I answered your comments in "Exam Time" blog yesterday and I hope they took.  Not sure Blogger blogs will do that, but I tried.

  XX

Exam Day

 Kitties!  Woofies! Today mom tricked me, and we went to the v-e-t.  I was sedated but not much this time, and brought out of it right after the exam and the blood test..and I was growling.  Mom and Vet were actually glad as it showed I was in the here and now quickly!! 

I was sedated some, so that the vet could get my bloods for an in-house thyroid reading.  We'd know if my values went up, and that  that was why I wasn't eating.  Well, they had risen from the borderline they have been for several years, to two marks farther up the scale.  The next bad news was that my other fang is somewhat loose; but worse, there is an abscess--- and my gum is red and swollen of course.  I was given Convenia, an antibiotic that will last two weeks.  I will return after the two weeks and she will look again to see if it's any better, and if not, another shot will be given.  If I am even moderately better I will head off to the University of Tennessee Veterinary School and have I-131.  That will take care of my hyperthyroid.   

Mom and I both have been more grateful than we have the best words for, for your love, care, prayers, and purrs. This is where we are now. 

 Mom has been wondering and feeling very badly that for months as  I have stood on my back legs to get the food whenever food was going to be served.  I was so hungry all of the time.  Mom could see that, she could see me anxious for my meals but she could not understand why I would start to eat..maybe one lick... and have to walk away.  Pain.  Pure and simple.  

Please continue to purr and pray with us that the Convenia will work for the abscess.  Then, I can go get my I-131.  I am too old to be put all the way to sleep for dental surgery.  If it gets desperate, we'd have to do it..and take the consequences.  Mom can't even go there. 

So right now...we know a lot more and we're working on it.  XXOO

 Dear Kitties and Woofies,

Ann sent this beautiful picture for us today and we are sharing it right away.  

Thank you all very much for writing and telling us you are thinking of Katie and praying and purring for her.  Finding the words to say thank you as deeply as we mean that phrase, is impossible to do! But I know you know how we feel as you too have been in the same place occasionally.  

We are so grateful for the picture.  

This's and That's- Here and There- What's What -Up and Down-Round and Round -and so on

 Kitties, Woofies!

Nothing much to say at this point, but Katie is not well.   Her previous behavior of a few months ago started again, re: not eating, being under the bed, and losing a lot of weight.  We are going through this together, she and I.  We wanted you all to know why, and why I, Mom, isn't around here a lot.  My heart isn't in it. As with you all and your fur babies, I love my baby.

We don't have anything new to tell you.  We wish we did.  She will have another Vet date for Thursday if I can get her into the carrier where she will have another blood test and exam.  

She loves me very very much.  Comes for lovins and snuggles and smoochies still.  She does sleep with me much of the night.  So that is still there.

Keep her in mind if you will.  She and I would be grateful. 

Drinking at top speed.  That pink tongue is working! 

Monorailing for water! 

I was checking for morsels a few days ago. 

Once Upon a Time

 Katie here.  Mom took me in to get my claw trimmed today.  But before I left today, here I am, diving for morsels in my wooden puzzle box.  I have my arm in searching for morsels.  I pick them up with my paw easily and put them in my mouf! 

I lost more weight, we found.

Just a while ago, an hour amybe, reaching for morsels.  

Enjoying my large Fishy

Mom will talk more later she thinks.  Right now she is trying to change passwords on Twitter.  She and I want our Anipals too. 

Cinnamon Toast + a small PS

 Kitties!  I can tell when mom is having a good morning when she sits here gnoshing buttery (the real thing) cinnamon toast...THICK with cinnamon sugar.  She always says "If you're gonna eat it, make it worth it!"  Watching her, I about wish I could say just upend the cinnamon sugar straight into your mouth!  Thing is, give her the idea and she might.  

She's going to make an appt. to get my claws cutted.  She thinks I don't know but I do!   Then, she heads out.  "Where she stops, nobody knows!"  She has to arrange the fur she does have, on her head first though. 

PS (I have that tiny bowl in the bathroom just for the tub edge.  My other bowls, 3 of them are on pedestals.  So I can just sit up and drink and eat.) 

Getting ready to drink from a fave dish

Mom musta been proud she cleaned the tubbie and surround, 'cause there her hand is, reflected in it.