Moving on.....

I haven't posted because I didn't want to be a continual downer.

It is painful without Mousie. Scat keeps looking for her. She will periodically walk around the apartment meowing for her. She comes back looking puzzled. I don't meow but I think I do that too without realizing it.

It's weird without her because we were like three planets who had settled in familiar orbits around each other. Now that Mousie's gone, the orbits are out of whack. We had developed many patterns that I wasn't aware of until she passed.

I was not the sun in this arrangement. I may have been the biggest with more responsibilities, but Mousie and Scat each had qualities that had just as much pull. The love and constant company were as important as anything I did if not more.

I have not had roommates so we were the 3 amigos for 17 years. We are still the 3 amigos in many ways.

I will add 2 tiny amigos at some point. Scat and I will know when and who at the right time.

Until then.......

Mousie went across the Rainbow Bridge at 6am.

Mousie wanted me to send you this:

I took Mousie to the vet at 8am.

They checked her out and said her organs were functioning fine. She isn't much better. She lays around and stretches. She can't walk.
I left her there for observation and they gave her fluids.

I brought her home at 5pm.
She really, really hates the vet. She was hissing at everybody when I got there.
I can give her fluids and talk to her. She does respond to me.

So this is the last roundup. It's been one hell of a ride with her. I couldn't have had a better partner. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Unless she has a miraculous recovery, she will cross the rainbow bridge tomorrow.

Thanks for your support and kind words.

Mousie: Sunday am

She is alert a lot of the time.
She is also sleeping.
She is drinking and urinating.
Mousie is also stretching and this doesn't appear to be muscle spasms.
She will meow and purr at me some, but not a lot.
Her back is still sensitive. It is not extremely sensitive all the time.
Her pupils are reactive to light and no longer dilated.

I want to talk to the vet to get an idea if she can recover without a lot of stuff.
I will let her go. I thought she was already gone. I am on the edge of doing just that.
Everything happened so rapidly without any vet to talk to.

I really appreciate everybody's kind words and support. It means a lot.

Grits, Mousie, and Scat
(Scat is just hanging out. She can't hear so that may help her stress although I know she knows something is going on.)

Mousie has hyperesthesia.

The dawg is NOT supposed to get on the bed. What happens when he's home alone?

Mousie had a seizure at 11:45.

I think she's passing. My vet is closed. Emergency clinics are 2 hrs away.
I am just petting her and telling her stories. I don't know if it's the right thing, but car rides upset her a lot.
I don't want to make it hard on her.
My brother has had a lot of experience with cats and he said that being with her in a quiet familiar place was probably best. So here I am.
She's softly purring while I'm softly talking to her and crying.
My heart is breaking.
Grits

Anti-war march in Moscow:

Laura Mills is the AP Moscow correspondent

@lauraphylmills:
Moscow anti-war march, at least 10,000 people here


@lauraphylmills:
Elena Volkova, antiwar protester: "Propaganda shows moral sense has atrophied. Don't know who terrifies me more, Putin's govt or my own ppl"

I will not believe ANYTHING about flight 370

until the plane is found and some credible evidence can be shown and backed by reliable sources.
Even then, there has been so much BS given out that anything found will be suspect.

It's the old questions.
Who knew what? When? Why the coverup/and or delay?

It all reeks.