okay.....

[thoreau]

What a Friday afternoon! I'm now back from the vet - and it's okay news. The doc thinks that he and I were perhaps too optimistic about her ability to get to eating - so - I have bags of Saline Water on the counter (I hear that 2007 is a good vintage!) and Miss Kate and I will be spending quality time with IV liquids in the morning and in the night. Along with the pocket of fluids under her skin - I'll be administering anti-nausea meds as well. She'll be food free again till Monday - - but getting the liquid IVs. It'll just give us some good quality time together! We're home and resting - and I'm getting the carpet cleaned up from where she got sick earlier. So - it's not a TOTAL set back to the beginning as the dogwalker feared - but simply one small step backwards - and we'll move forward. The doc did raise the spectre again of what might happen if she doesn't bounce back - but we'll see.

I have to give props out to Miss Shannon jodfoster who reminded me to stop and meditate and get my 'stuff' together before coming home - it allowed me to get in here - get Miss Kate to the doctor - and learn all this stuff with all my composure intact. (yay!) But - Shannon was good enough to stop me and remind me how much meditation helps me in my life and did the iChat equivalent of slapping me upside the head with a wet salmon. Yay her!³