crying again

 Mum cried when one of her friends was diagnosed with cancer, leukemia.  I wonder how her family feels. Today, another friend, my Doc's wife, was told she had liver cancer  Mum says it is a an extremely deadly disease.  She says she had a friend that who died 10 days after she found out.  Her friend, Diana, also now has diabetes.  She tested 400, which Mum says is a dangerous high.  She says she feels useless because she can't help them.  Some other friends have serious health issues too.

Crime Scene

Poppy bit Mum.  She had on heavy socks but his teeth cut in the skin anyway,  A few minutes later she noticed squishy blood spots all over the floor and carpet where she walked. Looked just like a CSI crime scene.

Hammond

Hammond was very very ill on Wednesday.  Mum and Dad took him to Dr. Phil.  He was nearly dead and had a fever of 106.  Dr. Phil said that was extremely high.  He gave him shots of strong antibiotics, Prednisone, and Vitamin B-12, with sending him home amoxicillin.  The bill was only $34.00.  He said, "He better get well soon."  I thiink we all thought he'd be dead by Thursday morning.  Mum couldn't sleep and kept checking on him.  She decided to try to make him drink a little milk.  He drank a tablespoon.  Every hour she was able to get him to drink or nibble more until now when he is eating almost normally.  He will still get his meds. He doesn't look very well and appears to be depressed.  (Of course, we all are a little bit depressed.  The weather has been sunny and temps in high 40's.  So. we spend sometime outside.)  Today Mum found a lump or a mass in his lower abdomen.  He cries if she touches it.  I sppose it will have to be looked at.

Earmites!  I don't have them but Blackie, Bits, and Poppy do.  Little Cat did but Doc used this expensive treatment.  Mum is going to buy some for, at least, Blackie and Bits.  They have crinkled ears because of the vicious little bug. She walks around squirting sweet oil in ears.  Doc says sweet oil is good against mites....

Bored!

Winter is so boring.  Not much happening 

Gary and Popeye had a most terrible fight in the garage.  Dad and Mum said it was the worst cat fight they'd ever seen.  Mum keeps gallon bottles of water out there.  To break up the fight she had yo throw water on them.  They still aren't friends.

Gary had a bad problem.  He was sitting on dryer, slipped and fell in the closed space by the dryer.  He can't jump.  He's too big and, also, it's not much in the nature of domestic shorthairs.  They could't reach him.  Dad had to lie down on the top of the washer and dryer and pull him up.  Dad's arms just barely made it.

See the Christmas tree.  We were all good.  Nobody broke any balls.  Nobody climbed the tree.  Nobody ate any tinssel.  Mum bought us new Cat Faery toys.  They are good to play with.  She usually makes aome catnip toys, but her hand was still wrapped.  We had ham and turkey.