Congrats to your brother Steph. That's very cool news.

Glad to hear Trudy is out of surgery.

Windsparrow-thank you so much for that posting about wellness cat food. that's what i feed my (slightly special needs) younger cat and he's been acting extra weird lately - leaving turd surprises all over the house in unusual places and randomly yowling for attention. Behaviors that have in the past indicated UTIs. At least now i know WHY and it's a far easier fix than going to the vet, trying to get a pee sample, and banana-flavoured antibiotics *shudder*

starting tomorrow morning i will be feeding him some backup cans of different vintage, and i should be able to stop by the petstore after work to restock. i'll sleep better knowing that tomorrow he'll start getting his B1 again. (but with the bedroom door shut, he pooped on my comforter last night. boo. hiss.)

(I am a little bummed that i've been ordering my wellness wet cat food via petflow - next shipment in a couple of weeks - and have received zero notification from them about the recall. If you hadn't posted here, i would have finished that case of cat food and likely ended up in the vet's office with no idea. You'd think the company that sent me an email reminder today for a shipment including a recalled product might have noticed. oh well.)

eta: i was wrong, petflow shipment was shipped today, so it's already enroute. likely they didn't know about the recall yet when packing it up. Fingers crossed it's a later lot and i won't have to call the recall hotline again for replacement of another case.

Good news on Trudy's surgery! Here's to a swift, easy recovery.

And ~~ma for relatively pleasant diaper-filled recovery to Trudy. Hint: pain killers make crappy television rather awesome. Best time to catch up on all those guilty pleasure shows (and movies, and books) that you would never normally admit to enjoying. Hand-wavium not even necesssary when enough vicodin is involved, IME.

I found this week that Sex-and-the-City goes great with fever fatigue and dizziness. I guess if I had any macho cards left, I just canceled them.

erin_o, I'm glad to be of use. I'm on Wellpet's email list, and received notification from them today. I hope your cat feels better quickly.

Cass, thank you again for the Trudy updates. I'm glad that the surgery went well. Here's to a swift, relatively painless healing process.

I found this week that Sex-and-the-City goes great with fever fatigue and dizziness. I guess if I had any macho cards left, I just canceled them.

To quote Wondermark, "Oh wow I just realised that Sex and the City is a prequel to Golden Girls."

The surgery news is my favourite kind of surgery news, which is to say good news. However - and this may be driven largely by my own personal circumstances - I am going to advocate for 'diaperiffic', say, replacing 'diaper-filled' in any future discussions.

good call. Diaperiffic, indeed.