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I got home from work in a panic ready to force feed my cat so she wouldn’t die and found her still on her bed in the office. But then she got up all on her own, walked to the kitchen, ate a bit, then went to her water bowl and drank for five minutes. [...]

My vet finally called me back (she was in surgery) and she’s very concerned that Mac isn’t eating or drinking much. Apparently, I should have started syringe feeding her last night when she wouldn’t eat much on her own and I should not have left her be for an entire day. Now I feel like [...]

I left work early and picked up Mac yesterday afternoon. Poor cat. She looked so pathetic in her carrier. The clinic had put a bandage on her right front leg where they had taken an IV out. It was orange with smiley faces. The vet joked that they thought it might improve her disposition. She [...]

Mac spent another night at the emergency clinic. I spoke to the vet around 8:30 last night and he told me I could come get her if I wanted, but basically another night of monitoring wouldn’t hurt. I think he knew that I’d be freaked out and watching her all night anyway. I called this [...]

Just got off the phone with the vet at the clinic and he wants to keep her longer, until this evening at the earliest. I called in last night around 11pm and this morning around 8am and both the technicians I talked to had some amusing things to say about her demeanor. One woman said [...]

MacGyver is spending the night in the animal hospital getting fluids and antibiotics and having some other tests done. She was still not well this afternoon and had a few more issues, so I took her to the emergency room. They did blood tests, X-rays, and checked her blood pressure. Everything is a bit messed [...]

Disclaimer: this post is rather gross (but probably amusing), read at your own risk. I wake up this morning around 8:30am after a lovely night of sleep that included fragments of a dream where Jerry and I were singing the Star-Spangled Banner with BoyzIIMen. I get out of bed and smell the lingering bits of [...]

Forty three minutes left in today and I’m just getting time to sit down with an internet connection. It was a lovely day after Thanksgiving day. This morning my mom and I went and got my Christmas tree. It was a spur-of-the-moment change of plans before she left town. The tree was procured at my [...]

I’m getting ready to head to bed after a lovely Thanksgiving day. My mom and I spent most of the day with the Steele/Vaughn/Reinertson clan in North Liberty. We enjoyed a great Thanksgiving meal and then the Cowboys won. This evening Mom and I watched The Blues Brothers as she’d never seen it all the [...]

From my apartment of the first snowfall of the season: In my kitchen as I work on a cake for Thanksgiving. I love my KitchenAid mixer!