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| J. J. Kitty, Cat Extraordinaire |
It all started with J. J. Kitty. She is a very old cat, brought to us courtesy of Adam during his freshman summer at WCU. Being the proverbial rescuer, he and his then girl friend brought J. J. Kitty and her three siblings to our home. How interesting! There were two males and two females, all black without a single defining characteristic among the four of them. We had to learn them. Eventually, we discovered the J.J. Kitty was the best and while we entertained those who wanted a cat, we deftly managed to keep J. J. Kitty out of their clutches. The other three went to other families, but J. J. Kitty stayed with us. She was so cute. While I was reading my paper in the mornings, she crawled in my lap and batted at the paper, making me laugh and coming to love her so much more than ever. Fast forwarding, she has become an old a feeble cat. I took her to the vet and decided to give her one more cortisone shot to make her quality of life a little better, but the truth is that without that shot she has no life, and with it, she has little. I think that the next time it could be time to give her some peace. I'm not sure that I can do it. But that wasn't all in regard to pets.
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| Chester, the Lucky Dog! |
Chester, the dog, had not really been doing well the day before, but when I took Kitty to the vet I thought he looked better, so I didn't take him that day. Next day, he was not so good, so I hauled him into the vet. Doug did a bunch of stuff and figured that he had some kind of infection or, maybe, hemolytic anemia. He would know when we brought him back for some more blood work the next day. The next day his hemo counts were lower, so we decided to take Chet to Greenville to the specialists. It was snowing when we left for Greenville, two hours away. After spending a number of hours waiting for the diagnosis, we found that he did, indeed, have hemolytic anemia, a rather nasty autoimmune disease. He has been at the vet for a week, but we are going to get him tomorrow (Friday). He is stable and we are cautiously optimistic that he will recover. So, who knows. They are old and I don't know how long we can keep them in a life that is meaningful for them.
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| Jim"s car in 14 inches of snow |
There's been a lot of snow and the truck has been stuck in the drive, and I have a flat tire on my 4Runner. JR managed to dig his truck out today and did some good on the drive with the tractor. He has gone to Charlotte. Jon tells me that I should just come to Charlotte for the winters. I will do that when I don't have Jim, otherwise, I will be here with him. The winters, heretofore, have not been that bad. Perhaps this is a passing fancy! We only have fourteen inches as I speak! I'll leave you with a pic.
It has not been a good week, but life goes on and next week will be better!
We love you guys!
