HOLLY’S CAT LETTER, EPISODE 55–05/07/2024

HOLLY’S CAT LETTER

EPISODE 55–05/07/2024

🐱 Hi to all my admirers. Hope you’re all enjoying your day. Mine started out with loud boomers! Lots of thunder, lightning and rain. Ma was awake until 3:00 a.m. and had to get up at 6:30, so she didn’t appreciate being woke up at 5:30 from all that storm activity! 

🐱 So far it’s been a very quiet day for me and slacker boy Oliver. As usual, he’s avoiding his responsibilities and is burrowed under the covers in Ma and Pa’s bed. Such a squatter!! 

🐱 Ma had her LLMD appointment at 8:30 and as soon as she got home at 10:30, she changed into her jammies and took a nap. I curled right in there with her and massaged her shoulder. She didn’t feel up to going to the nursery to buy those flowers. Can you imagine that?! I have never seen Ma not feeling like buying flowers! 

🐱 Ma already has trouble with being confused and all this new medicine and added stuff to her protocol is just makes it more overwhelming. The good news is that her doctor listens to her and Pa. He agreed that she should quit her new supplement and a drug that could be causing her to have more painful problems. He also discussed the results of more of the lab work that just came in. Something to do with two variants (I think?) of MTHFR genes—whatever THAT is—so her doctor is addressing that. She’s been attempting to read up on it and is completely baffled about what all it entails and what it can cause. Ma just can’t wrap her poor brain around that one. The doctor also mentioned starting her on an antibiotic regimen and whatever else that is needed—which she is really dreading—once her body stabilizes from the effects of the two medications I just mentioned. Oh the pure joy of it all! 

🐱 I feel so bad for Ma. She’s really been through the wringer! I’ll be giving her lots of intensive Purr Therapy, extra cuddles and kisses the rest of the day. She tries so hard and it’s so painful and frustrating. Her doctor told her that she should have called him since she’s been struggling so much this past month. She’s not used to a doctor that listens—and believes her! She told him she will call him from now on when something isn’t right! When her doctor was concluding today’s visit, he was carefully holding her hand. She didn’t even realize he was doing that until she looked down. And then as he was leaving, he reached down and gave her a gentle hug! She was shocked by his patience and compassion. So was Pa. 

🐱 As far as the flowers go, everything is looking good. I’ve been patrolling more hours now since there’s the possibility of more vile beasts in my domain. Whatever trashed the hanging fuchsia basket has left it alone so the blood meal is working, though I’d like to think I’m the one responsible for it not being messed with! Even though Pa had covered the zinnia seedlings with wire mesh, some vile bird had the audacity to peck through and nipped off about a third of them so he had to sow more seeds. Pa then made a canopy of sorts with the wire mesh and that seems to be working out. He started the sunflower and Mexican sunflower seeds in containers and will transplant them later. 

🐱 Ma and Pa really enjoy the flowers and watching all the critters sipping nectar and doing their pollinating thing. I’ll never understand how silly humans can contentedly sit there and watch all that vile activity! All that fluttering and flitting around! 

🐱 I’m sorry this episode is so long—I start in rambling just like Ma! I hope you all have a relaxing evening! Pa has Bible study here at the house tonight so he’ll be serving yummy goodies for the fellas. Ma might sneak one or two of the sugar cookies—I think she deserves it. More about me later…love, Holly