HI Guys,

It is unbelievably good to be back home and sitting upright again. I  have been in the hospital and they still don’t know what is wrong (the last test results won’t clear for four days) but let me just say it’s nice to be home. I fairly got animal mugged this morning when I walked through the door! The doctors told me had I messed around any longer, my heart could have stopped because of dehydration. It was a good thing I asked Mike to take me to Portland (that was a switch!) They did rule out a bunch of things- but it is some sort of gastrointestional bug that I picked up somewhere and quite frankly, I can’t wait for it to hitchhike the hell back to where it came from! They could only control the pain with morphine so I am not really sure of that last few days events. So I am taking a rest for a bit. I much rather would have gone to the tropics and sipped long island ice teas-but instead I was flat on my back worshipping the porcelain god. I’m not insured so this was an expense not needed- but it couldn’t be helped. I knew I was in trouble when I heard the kittens crying for food and I couldn’t even find my feet! Thankfully in my absence volunteers stepped up- Thank you George and Haley! And kittens and cats were fed- Darcie was adopted out! and the litterpans were taken care of in a timely fashion.. Thankfully, these two people know the standards to which I keep the care of my cats and forgave me for the mess I left behind. I have been fighting this bug for three weeks now. I just kept thinking it was the flu and it would “pass.” It didn’t.

I did find a clinic who will work with me on reasonable prices for getting the last group of rescued kittens fixed. They will charge me $17.00 for the boys and $35.00 for the girls! The one problem is, this year we have 17 girls and 7 boys. I only had 5 boys before and less girls, but the man who wanted to shoot his cats (and I took them) upset that balance. So it would be $595.00 for the girls and $119.00 for the boys. This will also include dewormings and vaccinations!  They seemed impressed with my work and are eager to help out.  If you feel led to help out financially, please do. I checked this clinic out thoroughly and it come up aces!

So my stomach is still queasy- I hope everyone had a wonderful, blessed and Merry Christmas and maybe by the time New Year’s rolls in- I will have some answers to who this nasty passenger is inside my body that took my electroylites so dangerously low-

God Bless-

Mary Anne