Well, I am back- I think! Mike is home and it is a learning curve for sure dealing with his limitations at this time. The cats are no longer fleeing in terror when they hear the chair coming- and Mike was a bit miffed that Taylor hid from him for a few days and didn’t want any part of him. I told him it was because he smells funny- new smells the cats aren’t used to- the therapy center, the medicine and other odd smells. Taylor finally decided last night she would sleep with him again.

There are day care nurses coming in to take some of the load off of me. They are wrapping his leg and doing his vitals and just keeping him monitored. He does have a new growth near where they cut the old one off- so we go back to the doctor’s soon to find out why.

I got really sick while tending to all my sick kitties and am just now rebounding back a bit. I only have four active sick kitties now and Ashford and I had a long talk about the feline herpesvirus load he brought into the house!

The two girls in the bedroom- they are such a trip. Secret, the kitten- she wants me to pet her oh so bad. I can see it in her eyes and so I took the plunge and as long as I only pet her back and sides, we are buds. Touch her head- and she hisses at me and ducks underneath the bed again. But she loves to be stroked on her back, and I have to be careful because Mom is on the watch. When I pet Secret- Smuggles paw comes out from under the bed (fully armed) SWAT! She nails me! LOL i think she believes i am trying to hurt her kitten. But I did sneak in a pet on her this morning and boy was she surprised!

So life right now is a learning curve for all of us here and we are just taking it a day at a time. Anything beyond that is to overwhelming to consider.

This is the first day that I have been strong enough to sit up in a chair. I have been down for the count with a nasty flu- one of the nastiest in a long time. To add to that, Ash brought something into this house (even though they vaccinated him) and I have over a dozen kitties sneezing, discharging and being miserable. I have to take one into the vet this morning and I hope it isn’t to late for him. He has been rapid fire sneezing and now has blood coming from his nose which I hope is just from the irritation of the constant discharge.I can still barely move but he needs to see a vet and should have seen one days ago. I just wasn’t able to do it.

Mike comes home tomorrow and there is still so much to do to prepare for that event. All I want to do is sleep and try to get something in my tummy which so far isn’t happening. I feel like I have let these cats down by not getting them help sooner- but my health was as poor as my bank account is right now.

It’s 25 minutes to the vet and I just pray I can make it all the way there without stopping. I will wear a mask because this stuff is brutal.

I hope mcquire will be okay.

McQuire blew a blood vessel in his nose from all the sneezing. Pretty rare I was told for that to happen. It wouldn’t have if I had been strong enough to drag my butt and my kitty to the vet earlier than today. He is on oral decongestant and antibiotic because they open blood vessel makes his susceptible to other bacteria coming into the body.

Poor kitty he looks like someone smashed him in the nose, but at least he is going to be okay-

I have been sleeping in the living room on the hospital bed. It is a special order bed- longer and wider than the normal hospital bed and higher off the ground. Poor Dex- he tries so hard to get up there at night to be with me, but he can’t make the leap. I always have to help him. Then he snuggles down.

Lots going on lately here at home and with Mike and last night, I got violently ill. I made it back to the bed and I must have had a fever because I remember crashing around and moaning a lot.

Dex, I could hear him below me pacing and whining but I was so sore and sick, I couldn’t even lean down to scoop him up. I was just lying there trying to get comfortable and feel better and suddenly, I feel Dex beside me. He was pawing my leg and whining. He had made this incredible leap to my side! He slept with me all night- not on my chest as he normally did which I was grateful for as my stomach was pretty messed up- but along my hip and close. I woke up late this morning and he was still there watching me.

I love dogs of all kinds, but I have never had a lap dog. I like the big dogs, the protectors, the strong ones and this little guy every day he amazes me. He may be small in stature- but his heart and character is astronomically large.