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MaryB of Pasadena's avatar

Oh, yay! Feline Friday is so refreshing after all the crud we have to read through all week. Welcome back.

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Bliss Grey's avatar

I agree!

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MaryB of Pasadena's avatar

Not your crud, TC!

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Karen RN's avatar

Oh they are beautiful kitties TC. Sorry I’m not my usual feisty self. I was in a car accident last night after leaving work. Crazy, six cars involved. I was plowed into by a truck that had been hit by another one and another one. My car may be totaled but I’m okay just really achy all over. I’m so glad to be home now with all of my kitcats on my lap. A natural heating pad.

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TCinLA's avatar

Oh boy! Take care and heal soon!

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you

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Bliss Grey's avatar

Hope you're feeling better today Karen. What a way to end your day at work.

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you Bliss. Yes, it made for a very long and stressful day.

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Bliss Grey's avatar

Put your feet up and take another day off , give those muscles a chance to heal a bit before you go back. My cousins are both nurses, I know what you do can be a workout.

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David Levine's avatar

treat yourself well. at our age, a little shake-up can really mess you up. I had a little fall last month and the bruises weren't gone for at least ten days. some very interesting colors, though.

seriously, Karen, be kind to yourself.

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you David. I’m working on it. My niece talked me out of going to work today. So making some progress on that front. Those psychedelic bruises are really something though

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TCinLA's avatar

Yes, definitely take it easy till the bruises aren't "psychedelic"

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Karen RN's avatar

Excellent advice. I would give the same. Nurses are the worst patients.

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JDinTX's avatar

My daughter is proof

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JDinTX's avatar

My most sincere sympathies, been thru one recently, it’s a bitch, but glad your kitties have their Mama

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you Jeri

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Elizabeth M. (Massachusetts)'s avatar

Karen, since you are an RN, you’ve probably long ago heard about arnica gel for making bruises heal and disappear faster. So sorry to hear about the awful car accident. I’m glad you escaped without serious injuries. Glad you are giving yourself time to recover.

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Karen RN's avatar

Yes, I love Arnica. I always have some on hand. Thank you Elizabeth.

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David Levine's avatar

It works brilliantly if you take homeopathic arnica internally right after the injury. I always carry a vial in my coat. 30C is good, and 200C is better. I gave some to one of my dogs when she had to have an ingrown nail removed, and she bled so little, the vet started asking me where he could get some.

it's interesting that, in some venues, ANY "alternative medicine" has become "right-wing." pretty dumb. similarly, when I was working in my Bronx middle school, somebody told me that phonics-based reading instruction was also considered " right-wing ". it was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard and I asked why people said this. the answer was that Bush favored it in Texas (if so, it might have been the one true thing he ever promoted), and my answer was that I was pretty sure Bush went to piss first thing in the morning but I wasn't about to start holding it in because I couldn't stand him. this shit can get crazy.

but do whatever you need to do, Karen. we need you WELL.

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Karen RN's avatar

Funny how the pendulum swings. Thank you David. It’s nice to be needed.

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Christine (FL)'s avatar

Karen! Better by the time you read this! Sure is when we need our guardian angels.

Light!

🗽

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Lynn's avatar

Thank goodness you are OK. Rest up and be well soon!

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you Lynn.

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Tamera Willigham Craige's avatar

The heart is for glad you're ok and 'keeping warm'.

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you Tamera. I have a 2 cat heating pad on me right now.

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Maggie's avatar

They are really beautiful - good company, too!

Smurfie is gradually settling in - shes been with me a little over 2 months. She & Axel tolerate each other and shes still quite spastic & flakey here & there. Pookie (bird) cage & all gets moved into my bedroom on top of my dresser every night - then back out in theliving room by the window in the morning. Its kind of a pain but much better than finding the cage half on the floor with the bird down underneath her dishes. Her wing feathers have grown back (after the fall) & she can do her flight times again. Oh what we go thru for our animals!! Altho my arm muscles are being built up from lugging the cage back & forth.

Happy feline Friday.

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Maggie's avatar

Pookie thanks you!

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Jan Kriebs's avatar

I am glad they are there to keep you company!

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Carol Stanton (FL)'s avatar

These cats are beautiful! They look so healthy.

They must like living with you!

I have told you I am not a cat person but I admit I enjoy hearing about and seeing yours. Thanks.

Love to Jurate.

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Ally House (Oregon)'s avatar

I like seeing your clowder of cats. Artemis and Apollo are my last kittens. I’ll be in my late 70’s when they turn 15.

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TCinLA's avatar

If I am still able after these kids cross the Rainbow Bridge, I will go to the shelter and get the oldest kitty there (the one with the least chance of adoption) and bring him/her home so they don't die in there.

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Bliss Grey's avatar

It's funny how those old ones sometimes live years after finding a good home and family like that.

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David Levine's avatar

really nice there's a Feline Friday again.

it's good to have a breather, especially after this week, which was too "interesting" by half. "half" is a deliberate understatement.

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Rachel Carlton-TX's avatar

You have a eclectic pride of felines. They are beautiful ❤️

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SusanA's avatar

Your cats are well loved! I recently sorta kinda made friends with the neighbor's cat, it comes through my yard on it's daily patrol and that's close enough to having a cat for this girl (grin). Happy to see Feline Friday return.

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Gail Adams VA/FL's avatar

Ziggy, our absolutely goofy chocolate lab, wants a play date. He has no concept of distain or disinterest.

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Maggie's avatar

True chocolate lab!!

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Judith Swink (CA)'s avatar

I've been sending your Feline Friday posts to my sister and brother-in-law who also have 3 cats, adoptees from 4PAWS. They really enjoy your posts. Sister Jean has been active with the group for years, now she mainly interviewing possible adopters of 4PAWS cats to determine if they're a good fit.

https://fourpaws.org/

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Elizabeth M. (Massachusetts)'s avatar

TC, thank you so much for the uplift of Feline Fridays. Corky, Sebastian, and Molly are beautiful. How delightful that you and Jurate were able to experience them as kittens, too. Like many other commenters, I love reading about their unique and charming personalities. My husband John and I have two cats, Tilly and her son Eddy, who were rescued from under a porch in Louisiana and came to us almost two years ago as mother and eight or ten week old kitten. As soon as they first arrived, it was clear that Eddy had obviously had no emotionally scarring experiences in his young life. He strutted out of his carrier and joyfully took possession of the house. “Oooh! Big spaces to play! This room’s mine, and this one, and that sofa’s mine, and….” His mother Tilly was a different story. She was so determining ned to hide that when we (stupidly) “outed” her from her first two hiding places behind a corner bookcase and under a heavy leather sofa, she hid up inside the 1835 chimney of the kithen hearth where our woodstove now stands. After a day of frantic searching, it was new soot on the swept hearth, with paw prints in it, that told where she was hiding. I crawled into the hearth behind the stove on my back with a large flashlight, and discovered two glowing kitty cat eyes staring down at me from a shelf space inside the chimney, on top of brick oven. It took weeks to lure her further and further out. For months she flinched and ran from us, clearly experiencing kitty PTSD from unknown abuse or just the stress of being a homeless teenage mother. Now, almost two years on, she lets us stroke her, scratch her back, and pick her up and cuddle her, although she still will not jump into a lap; she must be courted abd allowed to pretend she doesn’t want the affection, before she will come near enough to be pick ed up. We’re grateful she has allowed us to love most of her fear away. Edison meanwhile is a fearless rapscallion, alternately rampaging around, leaping over chairs and his own mother, and curling up into a round black puddle of sleepy melted kitty cat. He is always wide-eyed, and right after getting into his latest mischief, looks up at us with the sweetest most innocent expression as if to say “Who, me? No, I would never do that! I’m just a demure, innocent little cat!” Then he wanders off to find the bext thing to fet into.

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TCinLA's avatar

It's so eacy to make those kinds of mistakes. We think we're doing them a good thing.

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JDinTX's avatar

Welcome back, TC’s tribe. You could write a cat’s screenplay, because they have more personality than many people I know, and you know how to tell the tales…

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Cynthia O'Connor's avatar

I'm so sad... My husband won't let me get a cat...he's allergic... but there's more to it than that.... : (

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JDinTX's avatar

Cure for sad, always

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Mim Eisenberg (NYer now in GA)'s avatar

Thanks for the sweet photos. They're all beautiful, and it's nice to know their personality differences. I miss having a cat, but my Pomeranian and my Papillon are handfuls enough.

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JDinTX's avatar

Personality differences, always, if one pays attention…

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Bliss Grey's avatar

I have two 8 year old siblings, and a 20 year old little girl. Your beautiful trio could very well be with you at least 10 more years, maybe longer. Here is Walter Sassypants when he was about 8 weeks old.https://tinyurl.com/4wwhxbdr

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Maggie's avatar

What a sweetie - Life would not be the same without my bunch.

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Bliss Grey's avatar

Mine have been very good companions, through some tough times.

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Bill Alstrom (MA/Maine/MA)'s avatar

In my opinion, the measure of a person is his/her compassion for others. Which must include the animals who are our faithful companions. Thanks for sharing this part of your life.

BTW, do I recognize the wooden arm of your TV chair? Could it be a Poang? Nothing works for me any better. Lumbar support Supreme.

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TCinLA's avatar

Yes. That's it.

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David Levine's avatar

sounds very desirable, but I don't think I have the space in the room I spend the most time in. but good lumbar support would be a real game changer.

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TCinLA's avatar

It's not a big chair, like a barcalounger - it's the size of a normal chair.

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David Levine's avatar

my dogs have had some rough times, too. one of the first dyad had glaucoma and needed three operations, the last one being eye removal. the second two were mother and daughter and were sick with Degenerative Myelopathy (ALS, pretty much). of these two, Daisy's had horrific dental issues and needed a really intense double hip operation five years ago.

hard to avoid thinking that some kind of karmic thing is working itself out. I hope the debt's been paid, whatever it might be...

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JDinTX's avatar

Lordy, may karma bless you and your tribe…

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Maggie's avatar

David - I feel so fortunate with my dogs & cats. One of mine years ago had a kidney stone which was scary, but on the whole, we (animals & me) have been really lucky. Making this short - Axel says it really IS time to go for a walk - snowing & blowing here at the moment - that doesnt matter tho. Wildlife has to be fed & dog walked!! I hope what ever thing (not karma) is truly worked out - does sound like any debt has surely been paid!

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Bill Alstrom (MA/Maine/MA)'s avatar

That's some tough stuff. I wouldn't assign this to any karmic debt. I'd like to think it doesn't work that way. Not that I really have any idea how the Universe sorts things out. Your dogs probably inherited their difficulties. Good that you have been there to care for them.

Monday we bring our Sophie in for a follow up ultrasound. A cyst in her bladder. Hoping the meds have reduced it. She's a 10 year old Tennessee rescue. We call her a Jolly Cockador. DNA revealed lab/spaniel/collie/Jack Russell.

I wrote about her here: https://billalstrom.substack.com/p/chosen

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Maggie's avatar

Oh Bill - you are truly Sophie's choice. Just a lovely story. Some things are just meant to be.

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Maggie's avatar

As have mine.

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Karen RN's avatar

Awe..he is precious.

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