Mike had surgery yesterday and so far I haven’t heard back from the surgeon about what they found. I did talk to him yesterday beforehand and he said that the reason he wanted to go in and clean out the foot was due to the fact that Mike’s foot was not healing. The infection was just sitting in the foot and the only other place for it to go would be into the bone. In order to prevent that from happening- they went in and cleaned it all out.

Mike’s main arteries to the leg are in trouble, one is almost all the way closed off, the other two are on their way to being calcified. But right now, the priority is to get the infection out.

I talked to the staff at the nursing home yesterday and made a comment to John the head nurse about Mike having surgery. His response, when I told him that they had removed all the infected tissue in the foot was “Oh, so THAT was infection we were seeing?” WTH? I used to work in both acute and convalescent homes back in high school- I knew it was infection and I don’t have a nursing degree! Brother.

My sister called me the other day. She is a cancer survivor. I haven’t heard from her in years as we had a bad falling out one day. She told me Daddy is dying so after we talked and made our peace, I called Mother. Daddy’s kitty Boots is dying. Once Boots is gone, my Daddy is going to die. I knew this years ago, Mike and I have discussed it often. My dad loves this cat and he can’t bear to lose him. Boots is 17 years old with CRF. I have a 2 month old kitten that i tried to get Daddy to take right now, but he is not interested. He hasn’t been able to do much since the accident (car accident) and he is the type of man who always had projects going. He will be 89 in October. I don’t think, after talking to them that he will see his birthday.

I asked Mother why she didn’t tell me, and she said I had enough on my plate. I told her I would come up but she said he doesn’t want any of you girls to see him like this. Apparently, it is a major struggle for him to get out of bed in the morning.

Anything else you want to throw at me God? I lost 6 kittens to FeLV, one cat to FIP. I almost lost my husband and now I am losing my Daddy. Boy, You must really think me a pillar of strength.