Mitzie Kitty

taking over my computer chair

:)

Yesterday was a busy day. I was sick with a cold, trying to stay home amidst everything I was supposed to be doing, and yet I still saw or chatted on the phone with ..... hmm.... how many people was it? There was JK, because I was babysitting Little L*, AM stopped by unexpectedly--such a great surprise, AP with Miss M & Little Mr. E came by because Miss M missed my Miss H at church Sunday and wanted to bring her a necklace she'd made. Who else? Well, in needing to re-arrange preschool so that I wasn't teaching (today) while sick, I chatted with T and AP (before she stopped by) and left messages for B and K. And the husband of a lady in our ward who I've been arranging meals, etc. with for Compassionate Service (BEST JOB EVER) called . . . of course while my brain was fried and I had 3 little kids running and Lil'S crawling around. (Not Quietly) I know I'm missing things. Oh, yes. And there was dropping Mitzie off at the vet and the subsequent conversation with the dr...the whole reason for this post! (Oh, dear....) Gratefully, with my voice about an octive lower than it should be, I was able to just drop her off, rather than stay for her exam and get everyone else sick. (Although, I admit I had a dumb moment where I offered part of the bench I was sitting on in the waiting room to another woman who'd come in. Oops. I certainly don't blame her for politely declining and am actually quite glad that she did.)

Mitzie Kitty's eye had turned a foggy brown color (over the weekend, but from this 3/20 pict, it looks like something was already going on earlier that we just hadn't noticed), which turned out to be glacoma. It could be caused by a number of things, including illnesses or eye tumors. Gratefully she doesn't have Feline Leukemia, and we're waiting to hear back on other blood tests to see if she has any other bug that may have caused it. If not, we're taking her to a specialist in a neighboring town to see if she has a tumor in her eye. However, I did remember while talking to the vet that I had realized earlier she's been eating a little less and sleeping a little more over the past few months. I just assumed this was simply because it was winter, which it may still be. We should find out tomorrow. For now, she's on drops to relieve the pressure in her eye and for something else that I can't remember right now. She's actually very good about the eye drops. Very good. As in, so good I'm impressed. Let's just say that Mitzie is very good at standing up for herself. It was pretty funny hearing the vet say (over the phone) that she seemed pretty grouchy. I just laughed! I'm sure she gave them quiet the talking to!

S has been really awesome: handling further vet conversations and decisions so I could take a break while the kids were sleeping, picking up Mitzie, filling her perscriptions, getting stuff from the grocery store--twice, etc. He's awesome. So awesome, in fact, that he just finished cleaning the kitchen! Oh, how I love my husband!

It's pretty interesting, all this eye stuff, and then how some things just all cluster together in life. Shortly after Miss H got her glasses and eye patch, my Gpa C had to have eye surgery. And now Mitzie. Hopefully that's it for a while!

*JK's in the school of thought that the more bugs her kids are exposed to the better their immune systems will be, so she doesn't care if H or I have a cold when tending her kids. Although, that's hit me the other way around on a number of occasions, like now. I ought to be asking if L's sick whenever JK calls to see if I can babysit her, and I can't believe I haven't made that a habit by now.....