I don’t take much time off and I hope the following two part series will help to illustrate why.<\/p>\n
I work up this morning at about the same time I do on a regular day – except I didn’t feel regular. I felt like a facehugger had made out with me in my sleep and an alien was going to burst through some part of my body.<\/p>\n
Anticipating trouble, I went downstairs only long enough to get a candle and a lighter. I figured the candle on it’s own would be useful since I don’t have a fan in the bathroom and if this was demonic indigestion, well, the candle might help there too.<\/p>\n
What follows is so unspeakable that I won’t speak about it. I will, however, say that Thunder(cat) wandered in and then quickly ran back out. There are some things even my little furry warrior can’t handle.<\/p>\n
When I was as stable as I expected to get, I took some pepto and got dressed for the day.<\/p>\n
I pulled the car out of the garage and eyed the driveway as it warmed up. I have a front wheel drive car and last night’s snowmageddon (yes, it’s a real word) had covered the drive in several inches of doom.<\/p>\n
I got Thunder into his cat carrier, covered up the front with a towel, and loaded him into the car. The vet is only a few minutes away from my house, but I had trouble just getting off my street. A neighbor helped shovel out my tires when I got stuck and Thunder and I were on our way.<\/p>\n
Thunder(cat) didn’t seem to mind the carrier – but he hates car rides. He let out a series of plaintive wailing meows the entire way there and there was no consoling him. I got him in the vets office where he settled down a bit – though he did hiss at one of the cats that lived there and got too close to the carrier.<\/p>\n
When we got him in the exam room, he didn’t want to come out of the carrier. The vet and I took the carrier apart and Thunder got an exam – and his teeth checked.<\/p>\n
My cat has gingivitis.<\/p>\n
While we talked about getting him in for a cleaning, the assistant came in to trim his claws.<\/p>\n
When I say that “he didn’t care for that”, it would be in much the same way that Ohio State fans don’t care for Michigan.<\/p>\n
Still, the vet praised him for being such a good cat. I held Thunder while the vet went to get the shots and then administered them. Thunder was reasonably calm about that – but it may be that he was just too stressed out to care. I got the carrier back together and paid the bill.<\/p>\n
Just before I left I asked the vet if there was anything to the “pets sense when owners are hurt and try to help”. He implied that there was and I felt at once better about Thunder – and guilty because he had dental problems.<\/p>\n
I got Thunder home and got stuck in the driveway. I got him inside and proceeded to Part Two of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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