Flashback Friday

For Flashback Friday I'm sharing a post from last May called Grass Girls:



We FINALLY have spring like weather around here! The windows are open, the sun is shining and the cat grass is growing!

Boy does that make the kitties happy!

Cashmere: Um, you may not want to watch this..

Glitter: For what I'm about to do, I apologize.

 

 

Cashmere: *chompchompsnarflechomp!*

Glitter: *gobblemunchslurpchewchomp* Urp..

Cashmere: They're not watching, are they? I hope they aren't watching..

Glitter: Avert your eyes internets!

Both: *munchmunchchompcrunch*

Well... I think they have that covered. Shall we move on?

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At the end of that post I put out a plea/request to send donations and wish list items to Chrystal and Winnie's Wish because May is when she takes her one and only vacation to Florida and her birthday is at the end of that vacation. I thought it would be great to have a bunch of packages waiting for her when she returned home.

I think that would be great again this year. Except for one thing.

She can't go on her one and only vacation to Florida.

If you follow her blog you know that she was quite sick and in the hospital for a while. That's where her 'vacation' went. She's feeling better, but I don't think she's back to 100%...

What do you say we try to give her a boost by sending packages and donations anyway? She has a donate button on her sidebar and a link to her Amazon Wish List there also. Litter and food are a big need, but there are other things as well. Any little bit helps! So if you can, please do what you can! Thank you!!

Sending Chrystal palm tree and sunshine thoughts!

Thankful Thursday

I have been talking about doing an update on Piper for a while and I'm finally getting to it! It is a thankful update!

As you know, when my mom got sick Piper went to stay with my sister temporarily. She and the little blind yorkie, Nala, did not care for each other. Piper hid. A lot. We lost my mom, (That is still so very hard to say.) and Piper lost the only person she really liked. Although she would sit between mom and my sister and let her pet her because my sister would stay with mom at least one night a week. So Piper knew and tolerated my sister. But now she was in a new home with a dog and people who weren't her mom. No wonder she hid.

I shared before about Piper accidentally getting locked in a bedroom for many hours and afterward she suddenly got very friendly with my sister. Even tapping her leg like she did to my mom when she wanted food or attention. After this, if she could sneak past Nala, she would sit on my sister's lap.

Nala, who can see some shadows or something, seems to know when Piper is out and about and would try to follow her and maybe make her go away from her mommy and daddy (my sister and brother in law). One time she was following and Piper didn't know it, Piper stopped and Nala ran right into Pipers rear end! Bet that was a surprise to both of them!

So on to the current situation. Nala seems to have accepted that the kitty will be staying. Piper wants to be around at meal times, and so does Nala. They seem to have worked out a truce where they both get to beg, I mean, demand, at the table.

Piper: Hey!

Nala: Mom!

Piper: I want a bite!

Nala: I want a bite!

Piper: Me, me! Give me a bite!

Nala: Me! Give me the bite!

 

As long as they are on opposite sides of my sister's legs, they both get to watch dinner and get their due bites! Sharing is good! Sharing is progress!

 

And speaking of sharing:

 

Nala: zzzzzz

Piper: Purrrrrr

Sister: I. Can't... Move..

They may not be perfect buddies, but we'll take peaceful co-existence! When Nala is sleeping, Piper is happy to jump up on the arm of the chair and get her cuddles.

What will be really interesting is when they all move up to my mom's house, which should happen sometime this summer. Piper will know it's her home, not Nala's. Nala will know the place from visiting often, and they are HER mommy and daddy. Wonder what changes will happen then? We have our paws and fingers crossed that they'll all be good changes!

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Update on myself. Therapy is going well! Thankful for that! But also taking a bit longer than I hoped so I will be another week. But that's it! I'm so ready to be back home with MY kitties! (You hear me Greg? Leo will go back to sleeping with me, not with you! I know nothing will ever make Cashmere come to me when you're around, but I'm taking Glitter back too!)

Caturday Art

I'm a little late in the day, but I wanted to try to get a Caturday Art post out this week. I picked the picture of Cashmere from our One Word Wednesday post and used Lunapic. I made too many, but I was having fun.

This is Beauty, my favorite filter

Fairy

Kaleidoscope

Dreaming

Escher

Kandinsky

And here's the original

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Caturday!

 

 

One Word Wednesday with Cashmere

Mine

Waiting and Waiting

For the kitties, the waiting began three weeks ago. For me, it began in October. The kitties are waiting for me to get back home. I was waiting to see why I was so sick and what it was. I got my answer, mostly, and theirs is "a few more weeks, babies."

Leo: (in front) This is where we usually cuddle with mom.

Glitter: (in back) Yeah, so who stole her and when are they bringing her back?

Leo: Yeah, cause I need my snuggles!

Glitter: Yeah!

Cashmere: (from elsewhere in the house) Yeah!

~feel free to skip long boring human medical crap below~

If you had seen my few and far between posts lately, you know that I've been fighting something awful and could not find any answers even after so many doctors and specialists. Finally Greg bought a pulse oximeter because one of my biggest complaints was feeling like I wasn't getting any air. This is one of those little things they put on your finger to measure what percent of oxygen you have. You are not suppose to be under 90, 100 is best. I put it on and it read in the low 80's. I could not get it to the 90's for anything. It started dropping into the 70's and even dipping into the 60 and that's when we decided not to wait the month and a half to see the next specialist on the list (Ear, Nose and Throat, because pulmonology said it was my throat making me cough and distort my voice). We called my regular doctor and he sent us to the ER. ER admitted me, almost immediately. For two and a half weeks I had more doctors that you can shake a stick at, from every field of medicine imaginable.

I tell you, it was almost like being on Dr. House, they darn near killed me before they fixed me. We'll have to wait and see if the kidney damage they caused is lasting or heals.. But in the end, the cough stopped, my voice is back to normal, I feel good, and my oxygen is mostly back in the normal range. Oh, and apparently my CO2 levels were really high while my oxygen was really low, no wonder all I wanted to do was sleep, right?

Where am I now? Being in the hospital and not getting up is not good for you, especially when you have leg issues like I do in the first place. For every one day in, you lose three, so I'm pretty weak. Which means I'm in rehab, getting strengthened up so I can go back home and see my kitties! MY plan is to be here no more than two weeks and then get in home physical therapy to keep going. I'm also reconsidering more leg surgery. I'd kind of given up on continuing down that path since the first one just about reversed itself.

If you have a purr or a prayer or a good thought, I'd appreciate them! I need to get home! I miss my kitties! They miss me! And here's something I don't think I've told you all (did I?) I need to get home for Twin 2's baby shower! I have my first great nephew to welcome into the world in July!

I have an update on Piper that I'll post soon. I am going to try to be more regular, even if I'm not home to get new pictures. Greg is sending me them, like the one above.
Thanks for listening! I'm going to try to get back to visiting everyone too. I miss you all!

Leo's 8th Gotcha Day!

Eight years ago today I finally laid my paws, er.. hands on my sweet baby Leo The Chinese Lion. I had loved him from the first picture Chrystal posted of him on the Winnie's Wish blog. He bonded with me almost immediately, clinging to my shoulder for half of the eight hour trip back home, (when he wasn't in his carrier/cage.) He called for me every time he got out of my sight in those first few days and came running when I called back to tell him where I was. Meant to be.

Just look at this baby picture and tell me you wouldn't have fallen in love too.

Happy Gotcha day my sweet heart kitty!

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I know we haven't been around, and I think most of you know why. The loss of my mother has hit me very hard and I'm having trouble getting back into the routine. Not to mention that I've been sick for five months now and have to see yet another specialist and who knows how long it will take to get into this one.
I have been trying to stop by for birthdays, gotcha days and unfortunate losses, but I'm sure I've missed many because I'm not on line much either. If we missed you, please forgive us and know that you have our best wishes and prayers.
Love you all, dear kitty people and kitty friends, doggy people and doggy friends, and everyone else!

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Leo's pillow fort