It was mostly a great long weekend. Mike, Jan and I went to his parent’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. We were all sitting outside at first until all the bees showed up. I was on the lawn playing with the kids (Mike’s nephews and nieces) when a bee stung their oldest boy on the knee. That was certainly the end of everyone being outside. I was trying to cheer him up while he held an ice pack on his sting. I told him he made a really good mad face outside and perhaps we should see if he can outdo Mike’s mean face. This was the result:
Sorry Mike, Elliott won. Nice try though.
I’m glad my mother came with us. I was actually thinking about her the other day when Mike and I were out shopping. I found this wonderful purse that is just her size, which would have been perfect to bring to the dinner. I didn’t end up buying it though because when I sent her the pic of it, she had a few choice names to call me. One of these I should try to stop making fun of her tininess.
Tee hee! Other than the bee sting, everything went great Sunday evening. I must say, the dinner his parents prepared was a little more classy than the one Mike and I made the other night:
Ours was cuter though.
I had a really cruddy night Sunday – I fell asleep for a couple hours, woke up at 1:00 and couldn’t fall back to sleep. Ugh! I was just a wee bit pooped on Monday. Fortunately, we didn’t do much that day other than watch some movies and TV. We were actually half-way through a movie in the evening when tragedy struck. Pinky got up off of the couch, where she was most of the day, and started limping very badly. I looked at her back leg and it was really swollen and discoloured. We got on the phone to the emergency vet hospital and were told to bring her in. We were there for about three hours total for an x-ray, blood work and some other tests. They concluded it was an abscess and had to drain it:
Poor goober. She was such a good patient though:
While we were there, the in-house Bengal cat was wandering around:
He even tried to get into my cat carrier:
Cute and very expensive cat. Speaking of which, we paid our bill for over $1000 and headed home just before midnight. Do you like my new lamp?
I’ve never seen a soft cone like that before. Very bendable and the colour brought out her eyes:
Pinky was still a little groggy so I was happy that she just plunked down on the couch.
She was a very good kitty today and just slept peacefully. She’s hardly limping now and does not seem to be in any pain:
She had to go to my vet this afternoon for a quick check-up. Again, a perfect patient and very calm:
I have to take her back next week to check her again. She will almost be done her meds by then and hopefully mostly healed. Poor thing.
Today’s symptoms: I actually felt pretty decent today. I slept very well last night. What a difference when I get sleep! Today was the first day in a long time that I didn’t have to crash on the couch or crawl into bed at some point during the day (not that I ever sleep when I do!) Tonight will hopefully be another great one.
Lizzy McFly 