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Update on us

Hi guys!

Thank you all so much for the purrs, prayers & rosies you have sent.

Mom took little Calvin to the vet this morning & he listened to him & said he didn't think it was pneumonia. (Thank goodness!)

He said he was pretty rattly & he couldn't hear super good because Calvin was purring loudly. MOL

He gave him a shot like I had last week. Gentocin & B-12 then he switched him & the rest of us over to Bactrim.

He said the Clavamox is good but it generally does what it's going to the first week & if we are still sick then they need to change the antibiotic.

He thinks it's a really bad sinus infection and said that Calvin will have to fight it off & hopefully the meds will help him.

Now mom thinks the Bactrim will help but the only problem is that it makes ALL of us drool something fierce! I mean we are talking like Turner & Hooch type drool. (ick!)

But we only take it once a day so she's thinking we are just going to have to deal with 5 minutes of nasty drool.

We are not sure how Calvin will do with it though. Since he got the shot today he doesn't start on it til tomorrow. Mom is a bit worried that if he drools like we did then he will have an even harder time breathing. *sigh*

But that is the latest & hopefully we will have better news to report after a few days of new meds!

Thank you all again, it has meant a lot to us & mom! We'd be lost without you guys & gals!

Went to the vet today

First of all mom wants to thank everyfur for their purrs & prayers, she knows they are helping. Thank you Hazel Lucy for adding me to the purr list.

Well I just *knew* something was up when Grandmom drug me out from under the bed...then I saw it...the kitty carrier!

Well after a bit of a tussle I finally decided that I would get in. mol

We went to see Dr. Greg (whom me & mom both really like. He's been our vet for nearly 16 years. We also see a very nice lady vet in town when we can't see Dr. Greg.)

Well he weighed me & said I weighed 16.3 pounds. I told him it was not nice to say a lady's weight out loud!

Then his helper took my temp! I was running a low fever so I got a shot of Gentocin & B12. He also put me on Clavamox twice a day for a while.

He said if I didn't start feeling better I might have to get a shot each day for a few days.

And what was funny was that it was a year or two to the very day that I was in there with that nasty fever that wouldn't break for nearly a week. He & mom laughed about my timing but I didn't find it very funny at all!

Well mom told him she had some of the others doing the same & he sent home some Amoxidrops for them to get started on.

So thankfully she didn't have to bring all of us in...Can you say Ka-Ching!

Today was $65.00 so she was very thankful he did not insist on seeing all of us separately. But mom says we are worth more than anything any vet could charge. (I think she's trying to suck up & get back on my good side.)

So all the sibs that are sneezing started on the meds tonight.

I also want to thank the beautiful Miss Pansy for her offer to send Nurse Pansy over to "treat" us until we could see the vet...I thought it was very sweet of her, but for some reason Felina is hiding under Grandmom's bed mumbling something about it being a trap?

So we now have meds & should be on the road to feeling better soon.

Lots going on around here!

Well first of all I'm sure you've all met my bratty new brofur by now.

His name is Calvin and he was named after our wonderful friend Calvin.

You can read about how he came to be with us & get his name on his page if you'd like. mol


The next thing going on is that my secretary is about to be fired! Do you know what she did?!

She let our Catster Plus expire! She swears she *forgot* it was due. So now we have to *wait* until next week sometime before she gets it back for us. *pout* We will be glad to see those ads gone again that's for sure!

And lastly, mom is a bit worried about me. She doesn't think I'm feeling very well.

Me & my brofur Noah have been sneezing & hacking & one v-e-t we go to has told mom in the past that it is not unusual for us to do that when it's the changing of the seasons. So she didn't think too much of it.

But while Noah is acting like he feels better & isn't hacking like he was, I'm doing just the opposite. She spent a few hours trying to find me in the house last night because I hid.

I don't normally hide unless we have company or it's storming etc. She found me under Grandmom's bed & had to lift the bed while Grandmom drug me out.

Then I hid in a cubby hold I've never hid in before so mom let me be for a while. About an hour later she came to pick me up & take me to bed with her to watch tv & when she did she said it felt like I'd gained a ton of weight! She wasn't sure if it was because she'd been picking up the kitten & my womanly girth was just so much heavier or if I've in fact gained weight.

If I have it's not from over eating. She listened to me breathe & she says it's shallow, somewhat fast breaths. So she wonders if maybe I don't have pneumonia or something.

Think is it will have be mid week before she can get me in to see the v-e-t guy. In the past they would let their long time customers charge a portion of their bill until the following week, but they've stopped doing that so it makes it a bit difficult between paychecks.

But she will have me in next week come heck or high water she says.

Once I was in the bed with her I went back to sleep (I do alot of that now) She prayed over me & gave me lots of loving & cuddles & let me rest. Then she was feeding the kitten some soft food & for the first time that day I was interested in food!

So she gave me some a little at a time so I wouldn't be sick from woofing it down. I ate every bit of it too! But I wouldn't drink any water for her.

And now just a few minutes ago I ate some more soft food for her & am laying in a sun puddle.

She is worried about me & the rest of my sibs because we are all (except the kitten) sneezing.

The kitten is doing fine. Mom was worried that maybe the kitten had something & brought it here, but Grandmom reminded her that me & Noah had been sneezing a few days before we got Calvin.

She is still trying to be super careful until we can get him checked out too. That will also be next week.

So if you all wouldn't mind, please send some Purrs & Prayers our way. We could sure use it. Hopefully it's just allergies or something that can be fixed with Clavamox. But with me being a big girl anyway, mom is worried a bit more about me.

Thanks for listening friends!