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Well. I’ve spent most of the past forty-eight hours asleep, and now it’s bedtime again. Damn, I need to do that more often!
I had some really bizarre dreams, and watched some amazingly awful television, but I don’t much want to talk about either subject, especially given the tendency of the latter to leak […]

About an hour before The Incredibles on Friday, I started to feel like crap: dehydrated, glands swelling, throat tightening… I toughed it out and enjoyed the hell out of the movie (I wasn’t going to give up my place in line, after all!). But I knew that I’d need to be well by […]

Good:

oogby and reasie are married! It was a lovely, utterly clear blue day in the park, and a joy to attend and assist with the special day.
We finally got around to seeing Hero on Saturday night. Beautiful! It’s as if Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Rashomon had an impeccably elegant baby. […]

A phone call woke us shortly after seven.
Pixel had stopped breathing. She did not respond to CPR.
She was exactly two weeks shy of four years old, still a baby. Now our baby is gone, having made the hard, heartbreaking choice for us.
And no amount of joy, or memory, or tears can fill the […]

Our week was largely depressing, filled with worry and heartache. I wasn’t expecting any good news when we arrived at the vet’s on Friday afternoon during visiting hours. I figured it might be (one of) the last times I ever got to hold my cat while she still lived. I was visibly […]

Waiting to hear back from the vet. Last word is that her CBC is dropping off again, too fast for it to be safe to do the liver biopsy today. They suggest that she stay at the vet for the weekend, to be monitored in case she needs another blood transfusion, but I […]

Pixel the wonder cat is back at the hospital today. She’s started to get more lethargic again, and at her follow-up appointment this morning, her red blood cell count was tanking once more (back down to 12; she needs to be between 30-45 to be “healthy” and “normal”). The tests that we were […]

Favorite cat toy: $1.
Rx Cat Food: $20.
Blood tests and X-rays: $150.
Emergency blood transfusion, more X-rays, a battery of tests, and a bone-marrow sample: $1350.
Hearing Daddy’s little girl purring happily: priceless.

Mood:happy

aquamindy has gotten Pixel to the emergency vet on the east side. They will do a blood transfusion today, and keep her at least one or two days while they do a battery of tests, including a bone marrow test. Her red blood count is way, way, way below where it should be, […]

I find myself in an odd state of being wherein I am simultaneously bouncing off the walls and mind-bendingly exhausted.
Caution: naughty language ahead–enjoy or beware at your own risk! (I am much too tired at this point to care whether I offend or not.)
The major case of the happies is from an overdose of […]