04 Thursday Mar 2010
Posted in animals & pets, cats, change, home
Pals at last!
The upper left-hand photo totally cracks me up.
And more awwwsome pics below, if you think you can handle it…
02 Tuesday Mar 2010
Since his recent mystery illness, and especially since the arrival of Loki, I’ve been telling Azar … “hey, don’t you worry ’bout a thing chevrolet, you and I can conquer the world”. I don’t know why that sentence kept coming up. And of course “chevrolet” is a silly private joke referring to a Stevie Wonder song called Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing … and the background singers go “chévere”, which sounded like chevrolet to my young 15 year-old ears. But one of my very favourite Stevie Wonder songs is this one – You and I, We Can Conquer the World, though it didn’t become my favourite Stevie Wonder song until I heard someone else sing it – Diane Heatherington – in a little tea room/restaurant in Winnipeg I used to frequent called The Ting. She sang this song like nobody else and it always filled me up. I think if kd Lang ever sang it I would just crumple up and die of happiness…
Such beautiful lyrics, neither gender nor species specific.
28 Sunday Feb 2010
Welcome Loki!
I am probably tempting fate by choosing this name (the original choice “Tapita” just didn’t feel right when I said it out loud to him) but he is definitely a source of mischief and mayhem. Just getting these few photos was extremely difficult as the little thing doesn’t sit still long enough … made me realise that it’s been over 16 years since I’ve had such a small kitten in the house. My goodness, they get absolutely everywhere! All the time!
Anyhow, after much ado, the little guy arrived here on Friday evening. He was a bit confused at first, and Azar (still recovering from his mystery illness) wasn’t very pleased to see him. But after a bit of hissing and spitting by both parties, we seem to have reached a place where they can be in the same room without any obvious rancour on Azar’s part. Loki was keen on being pals from the first minute he arrived (he was living with several other bigger cats in his foster home), but I think it’s going to take a bit of time for him to win Azar over.
Adorable watching him though. And yesterday I actually caught Azar playing with one of Loki’s toys – batting it around the livingroom – and my heart almost burst with joy. Though of course, it turns out my whole apartment is a huge cat toy – who knew? Loki will play with anything and everything, including thin air. But to see Azar playing like that, especially as we are still having to force-feed him, really made my day.
So whaddaya think? Cute or what?
24 Wednesday Feb 2010
Posted in animals & pets, cats
An exhausted Azar after getting home from the vet’s yesterday…
Azar had a second “hospital day” yesterday, after Yolanda couldn’t find anything wrong with him on Monday. She said to give it another 24 hours to see if the injection she gave him helped and to also see if he mangaged to have a bowel movement. At first I thought he was rallying but there was no real improvement overnight, so we went back yesterday for an x-ray and a blood test. Nog came with me on the way there, but he had to leave after the x-ray bit, so after the consultation I was left to find my way home on my own carrying a screaming cat … IN THE RAIN …
22 Monday Feb 2010
Posted in animals & pets, cancer, cats, death & dying, hospitals
Got my appointment with Dr Ana the oncologist today at 5pm. Meanwhile, Azar has been all floppy and unwell over the weekend, so I will have to take him to the vet’s this morning and I’m worried sick. Could it be a delayed reaction to the vaccination? Is he dying? I can’t help but think of my last oncology appointment on November 17th and how that same morning I’d taken Sunny to the vet’s … and then that night he lay dying in my arms. I mean, hospital days totally suck anyhow without all this extra crap. So much for taking things easy and preparing myself for my next hospital visit.
I’m a wreck. Azar is not well.
I am not coping.
Fuck.
casa azahar 