Today’s been a pretty rough day. Like the saying goes, bad news comes in pairs and today has been true to the fact.
Felix the Cat has been acting funny the last little while, throwing up fairly often and this morning he had an accident on our bed and threw up five times as well, which obviously isn’t a good sign. So we called the vet and were lucky enough to get an appointment today because someone cancelled, so we went in to have him checked out. He’s healthy in every way, only he’s lost 1lbs over the last month and was dehydrated. He eats all the time and he eats a lot when he does and he also drinks all the time as well, so hearing that he was dehydrated and lost 1lbs was not good news. The vet checked him out and said it’s most likely hypo-thyroidism, but we’d have to get blood and urinal tests run on him to find out. So, close to $350 later, he had blood and urine samples taken and we’ll have to wait until Monday to know for sure what’s up. It’s $350 we don’t have and can’t afford, so it wasn’t what I wanted to hear at all, though hopefully this will at least explain what’s wrong with him. It could be worms as well, but the vet seems fairly confident it’s hypo-thyroidism, which is apparently a better of the two options and easier to treat. Or at least that’s how she made it sound. Luckily they gave him some fluids and vitamins to rehydrate him and sent us home with some food that’s easy on his tummy. He’s eaten up a whole wack of food and already looks a bit better, so hopefully we’ll get everything figured on Monday.
That, however, was not the worst news of the day. Chrys woke me up early this morning after being woken up by her cellphone ringing. Usually she would ignore it that early in the morning, but it rang and then someone left voice mail and then my phone started to ring right away, so she knew something was wrong. She answered my phone and it was her mom. Her grandpa Baustert, who has been living in the nursing home for quite a few years now, passed away late last night/this morning. I only had the pleasure of meeting Harold a few times and the parkinsons and alzheimers had started to get a pretty good hold on him. But even through all that he seemed like a good, friendly guy.
The funeral is going to be held Wednesday in St Edward, Nebraska, where he’s lived forever, and Chrys is flying back home Monday morning for two weeks. There is no way we could afford to send her home, so luckily her parents wired us some money for the plane tickets and to get her a proper outfit for the funeral. All the tickets are baught and we go hunting for her outfit tomorrow. There is a lot to get done before she leaves Monday morning and it’s going to be really hard having her gone for two weeks. Since we’ve been married we’ve never been apart, not even for a day that I can recall, so this is going to be interesting. But I know she needs to be with the family to get through this and to help her mom get through it too, so I’m glad she’s able to go back. I wish I could go back with her, but I just can’t afford it. I’m sure everything will be fine and we’ll be able to talk everyday on the computer anyhow, it’s just going to be weird.
So, needless to say, we’re both low on sleep (Chrys only got 2 hours before the phone call and she hasn’t been able to sleep since, though I went back to bed and slept for a few more hours). We’re still both feeling pretty rough with everything that’s happened today, it’s been a tough day, but we’re getting through it and it’s almost over.
We’re going to Rain Salon shortly to get Chrys hair cut and then we’ll probably do some grocery shopping tonight, as we’re in dire need of food stuff. Other than that, we’ll probably sit around and watch movies and TV for the rest of the night, though I might be back to do some blogging. We watched CLICK last night and really enjoyed it, so I’ll be reviewing that, and we also went to Nirvana Indian Cuisine on Main and 7th for dinner last night, which was very underwhelming, and will also be getting a review at some point.
