*hums*

[kyburg]

Cat is better this morning, but I still have a phone call to place to the vet - if we actually feed her as much as she wanted, we'll run out of food inside of 24 hours, and she's a bit pukey in the bargain. Better is relative - she did NOT want to be in a bedroom by herself, she did NOT like getting fed by syringe and I got a few grumbles. Just a few.

Not nearly enough. She did have the umph to get into a chair and hide under the computer desk. If I get home and find that she's barfed up everything, we start over again.

That also added a whole set of routines to a morning already full of new routines - go us. I don't think anyone was late to work this morning, but just toss a few more balls at us and watch the whole thing fall apart.

I now know the consternation of 'my kid is not happy about going to daycare' and 'once he was there, he was happy to be there and is that bad either?' Jim got big cuddles this morning, but he was also the one who got the kid up, dressed and fed while I packed lunches and got the bedroom ready to house the kitty, and moved the kitty over to it. And then cleaned up the bathroom...wait, I sense a pattern here. Right.

Your day, already in progress.

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[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Wait a week and he'll be demanding you for cuddles and getting dressed in the morning. Toddlers tend to want what they don't have. Our routine is Eric puts Delia to be and I get her up in the morning. Bedtime is his one on one time with her and has been since we started this routine. Every night she asks for mommy over and over. Every morning she looks at me, shakes her head and signs daddy when I come in to get her up.

Delia's known to do the same thing when I take her over to her grandparents' house. She cries when I take her there and cries when I come to pick her up. I've read that you have to think of toddlers like little cavemen. I can see that, but insane little cavemen, you know?

I hope the kitty improves soon. We have a cat with chronic renal failure and it's a struggle. He's been on daily fluids for close to year and it's hard to keep him healthy.

[juliekaye.livejournal.com]

We have a cat with chronic renal failure and it's a struggle. He's been on daily fluids for close to year and it's hard to keep him healthy.

I lost my precious kitty to renal failure over a year ago. I can certainly empathize with your current struggle.

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He just went through a bad patch. His blood pressure is borderline high and they tried him on medication. It made his pressure so low that he was always sleeping. So much so that he lost over 2 lbs because he didn't have energy to eat or drink. That, of course, made his kidney levels tank too. That was 3 months ago and he still hasn't fully recovered. He's getting better, but he's not back yet.

[juliekaye.livejournal.com]

:::hugs::: I'm glad to hear he's improving. I hope that continues!! It's so hard to watch them suffer, I know. You feel so helpless. It's heartbreaking. I'll never forget watching John just sit there face first in the water bowl for half an hour or more and just begging him to please please please drink. I'd finally have to remove him from the bowl completely because I just couldn't stand it anymore.

I really feel like I lost a piece of me when he died. It's so hard to lose our babies. :( Thankfully, I do still have my other sweet baby as she's definitely helped me get through all this. I don't know what I'd have done without her. We grew closer, too, while he was sick and definitely since. And what was once a pretty antisocial cat turned into this complete cuddling furrball like you've never seen before! lol Though she still despises being picked up, she will now regularly hop up on your lap or spoon with me on the couch almost all the time now. It's awesome! :)