Out Of My Tree

So last night I was awake and rubbing my cat’s chest while keeping her warm. She has a chest infection which at her age is really serious. She has been panting like (she won’t like me saying this, but) a dog for the last couple of days and last night she was panting so hard I though she was going to do herself an injury. She hasn’t eaten anything in about two days which, for my furry dustbin, is extremely unusual. Add that to the fact that she has been shivering and her body temperature has dropped so much even her tongue has been cold and it all adds up to a scary scary time.

Last night, instead of sleeping, I sat up with her and helped her breathe with the aforementioned chest rubbing, and lots of praying.

There has been a lot of extremely worried tears from me this weekend, lots of distracting myself and lots of denial… but something worked, because at about 5:30 this morning the panting stopped and a purr came out. And then she licked my fingers… and then she wobbled out of my arms to her food bowl and ate something.

I have never been so relieved in all my life.

And now I am playing the distraction game again and going to bed early to stop thinking about tomorrow. I know I’m panicking over nothing. It’s going to be fine.

written by bec \\ tags: , cat, ill, worry

I’ll admit it, today was going to be a real struggle. Nothing even remotely inspiring happened at work (well nothing I can blog about) and even the cat has stopped being entertaining.
Ooo, though, update on the cat/ health thing. The vet finally diagnosed what the many things that are wrong with her are: she is allergic to fleas and as we live near a farm - pills to be had once every three days… which is fun with the potential loss of fingers etc. She has been on them for 4 days now and looks more like herself already - hurrah! Just need to work on the balance thing now!

So I am jumping on yet another bandwagon thanks to dear dear Petroville and am calling for a delurking. This means that all you that read but don’t comment need to come out from behind your technological curtains and say hello - introduce yourself to the (literally) 10s of people that already comment! It’s all very friendly here… y’know unless I don’t get my coffee!

And with that I am leaving the floor open… and going to watch yet another Christmas DVD - Much Ado About Nothing!

written by bec \\ tags: cat, De-lurker Day

Today is one of those potentially annoying posts. But, my barely thought out blog, my rules.

My school year is all turning the big 3 oh, but we’re still kids right? I mean grown up stuff doesn’t really exist or happen for us yet right? But… well, one of the sweetest guys in the world has just become a Daddy, and has photos on his Facebook profile which made me all tear-y and my Mum drift into a awwww… realm. Huge congratulations Marc!

And my ol’ friend from 100 thousand years ago gets married in the new year, and I can think of very few who deserve the good times ahead as much as she. Massive congratulations Emy and Jon!

People’s lives moving forwards. It used to send me into a self obsessed funk but now I am just happy for them - does this mean I am growing up too? Oh no…

Speaking of growing up…

Today I was left on my own at work today for a few hours. I mean, other people were in the building but on other floors squirreled away in their own offices. I was flyin’ solo, Cap’n! And it felt good - I felt like there was trust and responsibilities and all that good stuff… And I just got on with it. There was one sticky moment but I handled it with my usual amount of grace and, well, the building didn’t burn down, there was no riots, and all the filing is still alphabetical… Can I call it? Yes, I’m going to…. It was a success!

In other news, I am really worried about my cat. She injured her tail a while ago, losing feeling in the end of it. The vet said it was fine - just to watch an make sure she didn’t trap it in anything. Well, something must have happened… about an hour ago it fell off… leaving about 5mm of bone exposed… Mum is being all calm about it while I am all for calling the emergency vet. She has had a number of bad falls recently. We kind of laugh about it, as she will just fall off arms of chairs and the sofa… anything she is sleeping or sitting on, and it is funny to see… but her balance is going fast and her confidence, which used to show in her leaps and bounds, is disappearing in a cloud of hesitancy.

I was, until about five minutes ago, hopping all over the internet looking for answers but am only succeeding in scaring myself stupid. Hopefully, an appointment will be available tomorrow and hopefully Mum will react appropriately. God, I hope I am just freaking out over nothing!

One more day and then holiday and time to catch up on blog reading… and sleeping!

written by bec \\ tags: babies, cat, facebook, weddings, work