it's starting to seem like an oversight that I don't have an endless screaming icon???

So! It turns out that the BB is acting like she has a UTI again this morning!

So far, after her diagnosis of kidney disease everything was going as well as could be expected except that she stubbornly keeps refusing her food and eating Snookums's food part of the time, so the vet had advised us to let that continue as long as she's eating and eating some of the right food.

The OTHER great thing is that because she has kidney disease there are a bunch of regular medications that she can't have and that includes the normal pain relievers and last time they brought up a weird one where we would have had to fill a capsule with a liquid solution ourselves and give it to her like a pill but if the solution itself touched the inside of her mouth she would have started foaming at the mouth? "I don't know how you would give that to a cat," said the vet's assistant at the time. (We turned out to not need it that time.)

So. We're going to the vet this afternoon! The sole slightly-less-awful feature of this situation is that Wax is home* and can drive, since otherwise the bus trip from here is like... 45+ min each way with a cat who hates vehicles.


*because she still has sick leave due to constant panic attacks!!!!

PS. And I also woke up to a text from Mom that Dad's back in the ER and on oxygen (after he told us yesterday he was home sick but it wasn't serious, just congestion). Nothing further from her yet in response to questions, but it's still the wee hours there.

red-letter day

OH! After

1. Woke up to text that Dad is back in the ER on oxygen, and

2. BB told us she has an urgent UTI so we called the vet to make an appointment,

3. I went to sweep all the hay out of the corners of the bunny cage because there are stupid pee flies again, which look like fruit flies, but hang out on pee. I emptied the bunny boxes and went to sweep up all the hay and discovered a wet spot!! Because Rowan has been peeing next to his litter box, and it soaked through the bathmat and the cork insulation and has turned the parquet purple, so we had to rush-cut apart the bunny cage. Japp is in the puppy pen, Rowan thinks it's his birthday because everything has been moved, and when we get back from the vet with the BB, assuming we're still conscious after any pain relief she might need, we need to build a new bunny cage! 🙃



Obviously in the long term we'll have to either sand and resurface or replace those individual segments of parquet. Remains to be seen which. But that's way in the future. We don't even have any plausible way of obtaining a washing machine until ___???? (no ETA on the estate being done and getting knowledge about our financial future either).