Here she is
Molly Polly Evans! A real little sweetheart from the RSPCA Cat rescue. She's fun and loves her new toys, and food and is getting used to Eddie - they've even had a sniff of noses at close quarters. We think she's about one year old and was found in a shed after having kittens.
Only two kittens survived and have been found homes.
She's going to be so loved and spoilt! and so is our Eddie below!
We will always miss Amber forever - in our hearts
Here are some of my other cats - loved and lost - although at much greater ages which somehow makes it easier to bear.
Sammy and his mum Sabrina - Sammy lived to 16 years Sabrina 18 years
Going Sealed Knotting? Me too!!
I know I had a moan in the last post about stuff, but I am so very very lucky to have what I have and be who I am. I have a lovely husband, a nice home, tiny but nice,and food on the table and have two lovely pets. I am not waist high in water having lost everything or in a war zone. I am so very very fortunate.
Wishing you all a good weekend, and all good things.xxx
My problems are nothing.
Starting to feel better at long last. Not crying now when I speak about my little boy lost. It's Thursday and it's been a very long week for me. I am still not completely well but parts of my hearing are starting to return along with shrill whistles and low tone.
It's been a strange year, a year of replacements, my car affectionately known as Ruby gave up the ghost in May and puttered into the garage to be exchanged for a super duper Mitsubushi 4x4 that was a few years old and very swish. Now known as Hi Ho Silver because of it's colour. Silver has a female voice and it's a shock when your car talks to you!
The caravan was crumbling away after many adventures and repairs, it was exchanged for a brand new one who, with us, had already had many adventures and repairs! The washing machine started to chew and grind the clothes and spit them out distastefully sopping wet and dirty, so we sourced a new Samsung that sings jolly tunes to me and speaks.
The tumble drier decided it had had enough and was replaced, luckily because of a recall.
Why does every appliance have to speak to you these days? I know sometimes I talk to the kettle on long days of writing, but my shiny copper kettle says nothing in return.
Although I complain about the chatty utilities, now I'm deaf I miss them!
So I look at the savings account that we both spent ages building up and we have £34 left.
Um.
We haven't had a proper holiday just a weekend here and there. Not just because of money - although the palliative care of my poor Amber came to over £750.
No. I have been ill and can't go out, the last time I did, I caught this baterial infection that dissolved my ear-drums. I hope they grow back properly.
Going to see a rescue cat about a year old with a striking resemblance to Amber, hoping this will help Eddie get over his miseries - and us. So even replacing my poor little cat.
Money is like the tide, it comes in and goes out, taking flotsam with it, and sometimes bringing in jetsam. Flotsam is what is accidentally lost from a boat and floats, Jetsam comes from jettison - goods thrown overboard to lighten the load - and this can be good stuff .
The Washing Machine is singing telling me it's finished and also to come and empty it
so I must go. I am pleased I can hear this even if it sounds like it's in the distance!
Today the sun is starting to shine and there is enough blue in the sky to make a sailor a pop sock, so perhaps, just perhaps things are starting to look up.
48 hours ago my little boy Amber had to be put to sleep, he had mega colon which meant his bowel had stopped working. We gave him two pain free days with us - chasing butterflies in the garden, playing with ducky duck and eating roast chicken. I have been missing him for two days and crying whenever I see his toy, his plate, his empty bed. His brother Eddie has been sitting in the garden for 6 hours now waiting for him to come back. Poor Eddie is so stressed he has cystitus, he's waiting by the hole in the hedge Amber made to come and go and shelter from sun and rain.
Well it's been a time since I posted.
Why?
I have had a serious bacterial illness that left me unable to function and has left me deaf.
Came on like a strange headache, I was in the garden when it started to sway round me and I thought I was going to faint.
I nipped round the corner to the Doctors who luckily was in and had an emergency appointment, he looked me over and told me it was a one off. Probably tiredness.
The next day I was in excruiating pain all over my body and couldn't move, hubby took me to see Dr Edwards, a jolly hockeysticks kind of woman, skinny, fit, tanned, big white teeth and a mane like a horse.
"EEEhhh " she laughed, "Ear infection, it'll burn itself out you have blisters on your eardrum."
Later that night, the pain increased and I was crying in agony, it felt like a burning hot knife was being pushed into my ears, we rang 111 the emergency online doctor and they got us an appointment with the walk in centre at 11pm.
While we were waiting to see the Doctor, I heard loud popping in my ears as if someone was popping balloons or shooting a gun. Bang bang bang so loud my dear hubby could hear it sitting next to me.
Then my ears bled and seeped yellow goo. God it hurt, it really really hurt.
When it was our turn to go in, we saw a lovely Carribean woman doctor with pretty dreads and a lovely caring attitude, she took swabs from my ears and told me to ring my doctor and they could give me the appropriate anti-biotic as it was a bacterical infection.
The following day I couldn't stand up, I felt the room swirling around me, everything went dark. I was by now completely deaf, I sat down and felt like I was falling into a pit. I needed air so hubby took me into the back garden and I sat on a chair and screamed in agony and panic.
We visited a Doctor or emergency room every day for a week and nothing was stabilising, we had lots of advice that didn't work - Dr Edwards refused to get the swabs back for us as she thought there was no point, so the locum doctor did and I have a specific infection that can be cleared up by the antibiotic and I was also given anti dizzy tablets.
Dr Edwards told me not to take the antibiotics.
Now it's what three weeks later, I am deaf as a post, feeling bit better, can read, write my blog, do about ten mins of Facebook before I feel queasy - I'll know if I will hear again in another two weeks or so apparently.
Winston Graham wrote in one of his novels, "one day you can be fit, strong, planning for the future, and the next gone."
I'm not gone yet, I'm still fighting.
