Melly is home and doing well~

We brought her home yesterday morning.

She is eating and using her box.

She's happy to be home and is being her usual affectionate self!

Thanks for thinking of her everyone!

Back at the vet till Monday~

Melly kept on a strainin' and didn't pee a drop at home. I didn't see her eat or drink either.

So back to the vet she went.

They had to sedate her and put in a catheter. The lovely cone collar is a must... and you know how they dig wearing those! She looks so forlorn and miserable.
She did eat some, and is getting fluids intravenously so they can really flush out the urethra, which is very inflamed. I'm thinking that's all it was this whole time, and possibly the surgery wasn't necessary. They said there were no real stones, just a lot of sandy grit that she could have passed. (Had she not been so inflamed for so long?!)

On a lighter note, I got some goodies at a garage sale Friday. Will share soon!

Eight hundred sixty three dollars and 60 cents later.....

We have one P-Oed cat.

She does not like the vet.

At all.

But now that she's home she is getting back to her normal, lovable self.

The vet said she was urinating fine there, but since I've had her home for a few hours, she has tried to go several times and I see nothing in the box. I'm trying not to worry at this point, I'm sure she has some funny sensations going on. I'll be sure to monitor it though.

Other than that she seems fine, and is getting around well. Thanks for your concern folks!

Right now I think she is high on pain meds, and is looking for a mouse that isn't there....

This time it's for real~

Melly will have surgery on Wednesday morning.

The prescription diet just didn't cut it. Though the mass of kidney stones looked better on the last x-ray, I think it's just too large to tackle. Perhaps if we had cought it a long time ago.

Poor kitty!

From what I've read, cats are better right after surgery and everyone was glad they went ahead with it.

I hope all goes well!

In a nutshell, part deux~

Ok folks... trying my hardest to catch up here. Just wanted to give you a follow up!

Melly did NOT have surgery. I took her in early that morning, and the doc called me after he did another x-ray and said that the special food had indeed shrunk the stones. He said we could go ahead with surgery if we wanted, but he thought that another month on the food would work.



The thing is, she still has blood in her urine and I know she must be in pain. But, we also don't have $1,000 to spend on cat surgery, tho we would do it if it is our only option. I've really been wringing my hands over this. I don't want her to suffer. But I also feel the doc wouldn't have called if he didn't think it would be ok. So, we decided to keep her on the food. He gave her another round of antibiotics for infection.

She seems better, a bit more active. I also bought a new litter box that she took right too. More on that later.



I was able to recover the lost pictures on my SD card! I was frantic that night, searching google about what could be done. I found Steller Phoenix Photo Recovery. I was able to recover all of the bachelorette party pics, along with about 100 photos that I had previously, (and purposely) deleted. I highly recommend the program if you are in need. It was worth the money! Plus, I plan to buy an external hard drive, and if loaded there I can recover anything on this pc if necessary.

The wedding was beautiful. I cannot wait to see the professional photos! I will share bits and pieces soon.

Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers!
Oh, and in case you're wondering; no~ the table was not returned.

Poor, poor pussycat~

I thought she was better, but she's not.

Poor Melly has gone back to the vet after finding blood in her urine once again. This time she got an x-ray, which shows she has a good size mass of kidney stones.

She got a shot and will get antibiotics for another 10 days. We'll feed her prescription food for at least 12 weeks, which is made to disolve the stones.

The doc has a good feeling that this will do the trick, and if not~ she will need surgery.

The surgery would cost close to a grand, so I really hope this special food gets rid of the stones! Not to mention the dinky little 4 pound bag costs $20.

Of course we'd do anything to help her, but geesh.... we ARE strapped for cash right now, as many of us are, eh?

Just be thinking of my sweetie, I'd appreciate it!

Meanwhile, I'm knee deep in my sister's wedding plans and other non-cyber things but I'll try to be in blogland when I can. I miss you all!

What's new pussycat?

CATastrophe, that's what!

Pussycat, pussycat I love you~ yes I do.... but oy what a few weeks we've had!

I had been planning to do a cute little post bragging on my feline friends but that will have to wait... Though they are cute, right? Such posers! Katie on the left, Melly on the right.

A few months ago, I had promised to share better photos of my wedding dress. So I set it up on one of my double mint twins to photograph. The pictures were so flashed out that I never shared them... intended on taking more later.

Here they are in their ultra bright glaring glory~

If you're wondering what that rusty/chippy cabinet is... it's an old barber's cabinet!

Ignore my manniquin's bare derriere, I only tossed the pink apron on her so she wouldn't be completely nude!

A few weeks ago I went into my craft room and it hit me~ the strong offensive stench of cat pee. UGH! And it's oh-so-fun to have to sniff around to find just WHERE it is coming from. Well, it didn't take me long. The entire bottom of my wedding dress was soaked.

Now if you have had cats you probably know that they usually only pee outside of the litter box for a few reasons:

One, the box isn't clean enough to suit them.
Two, they don't like the litter you're using.
Three, they don't like to share with other cats.
Four, a urinary tract infection.

My cats get UTI's frequently. They eat the special urinary tract food, and I bought them a drinking fountain, (which helped immensely with my other cat!!)... but they still get them.
I could see a tinge of blood in the mess, so I knew right away what it was. Miss Melly is the sick one this time. She just had a UTI in Oct. so I'm thinking that the antibiotics didn't fully kill the infection at that time.

So it's been a ball shoving pills down a cat's throat for two weeks; I actually request pills over the liquid because they sling that all over the place! She is the sweetest cat, and I think she really understands when we are trying to help her. She is the one who would've died had I not brought her home from the pet store with her sister as kittens. She could not stand up on her own she was so sick~ she had a 106 temp! The vet said it was just a virus~ I think she knows I saved her.

Anyhoo.... back to the dress. First of all, I don't trust dry cleaners with anything vintage or sentimental. That was not an option. Besides, I'd be too embarassed to take in a pee soaked item!
The dress had never been cleaned since our wedding day. The bottom of course was black. I had intended on wearing it for Halloween once, so I didn't want to have to clean it till after that. And boy, was I dreading it!!

It's made of panne velvet and corduroy, easy to clean actually.

Just incredibly cumbersome!

This dress weighs a TON as it is, but soaking wet I could barely manage it in the tub. It took days of soaking and squishing and rinsing and repeating.... I drapped it across the jacuzzi tub to dry a bit, then finally hung it (on two hangers!) to dry the rest of the way.

Here it is going in... EEEK!

Sorry, that's Katies cat butt you see there...

Hey! At least now you get to see all the fine details! No flash, woohoo!

I was SO excited when I found this chenille and satin rope trim, it brought everything together!

I admit, I was freaking out a bit at this point. Eww.
Just look at the BLACK bottom edge! Yikes.

All clean! I'll have to put it back on the dummy for you later. I threw the hoop away!

It came out beautifully. WHEW. The hook and eyes rusted a bit but that's an easy fix.

Lil' Orhpan Annie

A stray mamma cat hat four kittens in my mom's window well about three weeks ago. She moved them but apparantly lost count. This poor widdle orange kitten was left behind. It may have gone without nursing for a few days before it was discovered. After bringing it inside, feeding it, and putting it in a box with a heating pad it seemed to perk up. It even hissed at their dogs! I didn't know such young kittens could have that instinct! So funny to see! Makes me think it will pull through and make it!
Wish I could bring it home. Nova even asked, "Bring baby kitten home?" We just can't have another indoor cat and it's too dangerous where we live for an outdoor kitty. A few people have offered to take it when it's strong enough. It's so sweet, purring and kneading it's tiny paws. It was fun playing foster mother on Mother's Day!

Our fe-lion friends~

May I introduce Katie Scarlett and Melanie~ Scarlett and Melly for short. Their names are very fitting. One is very sweet and loving, and the other one hates people and only wants to be loved on her terms. Can you guess which is "witch"?
I wasn't going to name them after GWTW, it was actually Kevin's idea! They are about 7 years old.


















Here is Katie saying hello. You should feel lucky that she gave you the time of day!


















She loves being Queen Sheaba. Any
time we have a ladder out to work on the house she's on it!


















Melly is always giving hugs and nuzzles. Actually she's over friendly and can get on our nerves! If you're sitting, she's in your lap.


















Here they are bunny watching. They love spring when we open the windows and they can "bark" at the birds.

I think Melly is boy crazy. She likes to hang out in the laundry room and watch for tom cats. You can tell she's annoyed at me for intruding by her "ear language". Hmm... I thought Scarlett was the boy crazy one!