@GingerPeach & Kiku,
We hope you get this note.
Mommers selected me to write you some news that is not happy, because she says I’m the most talkative, and will ‘splain better. Although, you know Robbie is the sweetest, and most generous.
Well, so, about 2 weeks ago, our cousin Buford had to go away.
It was bad and sad. Robbin and I were there because Grandpaw didn’t do well with accepting, or making the decision, so Mom and Dad sat with Buford and Grandpaw for 4 nights and 3 days. We got to go too. In the end, Mom and Dad had to decide some very hard, distressing things.
Then 4 - 5 days after that, Fleur, the black and white tuxedo kitty who is Phinn’s sister, had a stroke. It was not a mini- stroke, it was a pretty bad one. As a result she is blind, but at home, and not in pain. But she can’t see and gets lost and very scared. Because of this, she is trying to cuddle with Marie, Phinn, Robbin, and me. The problem is she has always been an independent, loaner, starting fights, and such, so the new snuggle-up plan is not going well. Robbin lets her snuggle with him, and so do I (a bit). Mostly the snugglers are Mom & Dad, which is new because Fleur was never into that stuff. She went to the Neurologist at the Veterans school here, and he said that all we can do is keep her happy.
So, last week Marie Laveau had her 6 month check up. When the Veteran checked her mouth, she has lost her teeth because she is a long time diabetic, and is >16, he saw a problem. She had a growth in the roof of her mouth. So back Mom and Dad went to the Veteran School, and it is what our friend the Vet thought. Marie had inoperable brain cancer. It can’t be fixed, and treatment would be too hard on her. If it starts to bother her eating, a bit can be done, maybe, but, likely won’t. She is the queen of the home, and continues that way, sleeping on her throne, the back of the sofa, and making sure the other cats show respect, and stay out of her way. This does not work well with Fleur’s new desire to snuggle.
One more bit, and then I’ll stop, I promise. Mom needed to come off some long term medicine, and start something new to replace it. She went along for about a week gradually dropping down the old meds, while increasing the new medicine. All was OK until she was totally off the old and on the new. She had a reaction, which she ignored, thinking she would adjust. Don’t you wish she would STOP doing that? She had a bigger un ignorable reaction, and is now in bed while the Docs reverse things and decide what to do next. She says tell you she is OK, Jus’ has to stay flat and only has her I-pad in bed with her. She piddled around worrying about if she could write you here, if you would see it, so just to tell you she can only write this way for a bit longer. Prolly’ after the week end. Hope you see this.
We hope y’all are Ok, and that the awful fires will stop. Be Well, and take care of yourselves.
Kisses and Snurffies,
Bertie, Robbie, Marie, Fleur, and Phinn.
♥️🐾♥️🐾♥️🐾♥️🐾♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾♥️
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