November 16th 2009 2:49 pm
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I hate saying good bye.
I especially hate saying good bye to special furriends.
Today I have to say good bye to Lola, a Good Girl who was also a good furriend.
I was very upset when my furriend Scooter made her journey to the Bridge earlier this year. I always considered her The Queen of the Olde Furts and, truth be told, thought of her as a mentor in how to age gracefully. She taught me the value of freeze dried chicken treats, what glucosamine can do for arthritis, and just how to be a classy lady in general.
Scootie is one smart girl. To help heal her parents hearts, she sent them the lovely Lola. I know her parents fell in love with her, but all the rest of us did too. Lola didn’t let her rough past diminish her capacity to love and be loved and over the next eight months, she proved to all of us that it’s never too late to have a good life.
A good life for a Good Girl.
We were completely hooked on Lola’s videos that showed her Kung Fu fighting skills, her complete defiance of gravity and the things that some other Olde Furts might hesitate to do because of their age or health issues. Mama mentioned many times how pretty Lola was and how you could become lost in those beautiful Burmese eyes of hers. I was never jealous because Lola had become a good furriend of mine. She was always one of the first ones to comment on my diary entries, either celebrating my good times or sympathizing with me during my bad times. I know she was like this with a lot of kitties here on Catster, which just made her even more special.
About the only remnants of her past she couldn’t completely escape were her health issues. Even though she was only a petite 4 lbs, she met the challenges in front of her like a mighty lioness, fierce and unflinching. When she started feeling bad a couple of weeks ago, we figured it was just another bump in the road and that soon she’d recover and be back to being everyone’s Good Girl again. We were shocked to see that this morning our lovely Lola had made her journey to the Bridge.
Mama’s eyes are getting leaky again as she writes this. She’s cried as much for Lola as she did for Scootie. She cries too for Lola’s parents, for the short time they had this lovely little angel in their lives. The one thing that makes her heart hurt a little less is knowing how wonderful the last eight months of Lola’s life were.
Unfortunately, every Olde Furt has an expiration date. All we can hope is that it’s later rather than sooner, but whenever that date is, we all have to remember to live every day to the fullest, to enjoy our lives and our time together and to never forget to let our loved ones know how special they are.
In other words, we need to live like Lola.
I’m sure that there were plenty of Olde Furt angels waiting to meet Lola, chief among them her sister Scooter. I’m sure Calvin was there to give his special little pal her heart basket. I have a feeling Lola’s heart basket is just crammed full of hearts. I know there’s a big one in there from me.
I also have a sneaky suspicion that Lola’s first meal up there will be Popeye’s Chicken. Enjoy it, Good Girl. You deserve it.
Good bye my sweet furrriend. I’ll miss you.
Hugs & Purrs of Sadness,
Sally Maria =^.^=
November 2nd 2009 9:34 pm
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Between being sick and a DDP on Halloween, I have SO many furriends to say thank you to!
When I was feeling bad, I got some wonderful comments on my diary entries that really made me feel better. Hugs and purrs to Hazel Lucy, my Riley Wiley, angel Scootie, Lola the Good Girl, my guardian angel Tigger, my unofficial guardian angel Abby, Miss Mittens, angel Zack, Pie, BA Tyler, Flo & Flossie, Flowie, Minxy and Freckles. Your words of encouragement and sympathy really helped pick me up when I was feeling down.
And then there were my "get well" rosies. I was totally overwhelmed by all the gifties!
-A beautiful sunflower from Sunshine angel Jazzi, Sissy & CK
-A Rainbow Bridge Ribbon from Dusty the DogCat
-A sparkly diamond from Kaci, Miss Mittens, Abby, Jennifer and Pete
-A big group PoP from Flowie, Riley, Whispie, Mau Mau and Apollo
-A big heart full of love from angel Zack
-A boombastic PoP from the Boombastic Angel Tyler
-A big sweet heart from the lovely Sky
-A whole bunch of PoP from Leo, Lady, Thomas & Pixiebell
-Yummy candy corn from Miss Mittens (my sister in cancer)
-A scumptious shrimpie from Miss Sable Kitty
-A little mini Miss Sable Kitty from Miss Sable Kitty
-A special angel PoP from angel Patches
-A yummy juicy steak from Orkney, Arrow, Tara & Zephyr
Saturday was a very special day for me. My very first DDP ever! What made it extra special was that the entry I was picked for was about sweet Calvin's journey to the Bridge. Thank you to my Riley Wiley, Dusty the DogCat, BA Tyler and Alex Finnegan ("Finney") for the congratulatory comments. An extra special thank you to Samoa. Your comment brought tears to mama's eyes when she read it.
Happy Halloween thanks to my sweet furriends for the rosies:
-A spooky ghost from Karma Kitty, Charlie Clarence, Punkin Pooh and Bobbi Boi
-A happy Halloween pumpkin from angel Zack
-A beautiful red rose from Rosie
-A big delicious shrimpie from Edgar, Emily Felicity, angels Gabrielle & Lucinda
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. My Caster furriends mean the world to me. I am one lucky little girl indeed.
Hugs & Purrs of Love,
Sally Maria =^.^=
October 31st 2009 1:08 pm
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Imagine my surprise when mama opened her email this morning and saw the email congratulating me on being a DDP today. Woo hoo! My first time! We are so excited!
Some of that excitement carried over to my visit to Dr. Hansche. I purred almost the entire time I was in the exam room, even when the tech took my temperature. Dr. Hansche compared my purr to the cooing of a dove. He was VERY happy to see that I'm feeling better. I gained 7 ozs since my ER visit! However, he was a little concerned to see that my sore is still there and not healing as well as he would have hoped. He said that it's entirely possible that I keep biting down on it and re-injuring it whenever I eat. Plus, with my abnormal immune system, it takes me much longer to heal. There is still some lingering concern that it may be a little squamous cell carcinoma but since I've been doing SO well, he wants to give me another two weeks to see how I do. I've still got some Clavamox left so I'll finish that up and go back on the 14th for him to take another peek in my mouth. If he doesn't see any improvement, then he'll need to take a closer look to make sure that it isn't anything nasty.
So, all in all, I'd say it's shaping up to be a pretty good day! My furriance Riley asked me to be his date to the Olde Furts Howl-oween party at Pie's Breakfast Club so I need to get ready to go. Thanks to all my furriends for making my first DDP so special! I'll be thanking you better later but I have to go decide what to wear!
Happy Howl-oween!!!
Happy Hugs & Spooky Purrs,
Sally Maria =^.^=
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