Aw.
I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.
Snyder ,'Showtime'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - May 27, 2015 6:05:09 am PDT #27340 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Steph L. - May 27, 2015 6:21:28 am PDT #27341 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I have to laugh. I've got a headache that hasn't gone away for 2 days now (not a migraine; just a tension headache that feels like a too-tight headband). It occurred to me that maybe the headache was from high blood pressure (this happened many years ago; I had headaches that wouldn't go away, and the day after I started BP meds, they were gone).
I didn't really think it was a good time to have a stroke, so I took my blood pressure, and it (as well as my pulse) is the lowest it's been in at least a year and probably longer (114/74, pulse of 72, which is "low" for me).
BODY WHAT ARE YOU DOING I DON'T EVEN.
Jesse - May 27, 2015 6:22:02 am PDT #27342 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
IME vets can get the age wrong.
Oh yeah, it was the records from the time (or close to it -- I don't think they go all the way back, but back to when she was 2 or something) saying she was 13 -- the recent vet estimated 11.
And as for how long you'll have, well that can never be predicted anyway so you might as well enjoy the time you have with her.
Of course!
meara - May 27, 2015 6:22:50 am PDT #27343 of 30000
Yay furry parasite!
Sparky, good luck with the reno plans.
Msbelle, yay no ticket!
Everyone else, stay out of the hospital!
Ginger - May 27, 2015 6:44:47 am PDT #27344 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The cats my ex grew up with lived to 20 and 21. For the last two years, they slept most of the time, so it was sort of like having cat pillows that occasionally relocated themselves. At Christmas, however, they would arouse themselves to go slowly over to the Christmas tree and whack one ornament.
You'd think that sometime during the decades that glue has been sold, someone would have figured out a top that doesn't glue itself shut. Come to think of it, the glue companies don't have much incentive, since their customers are driven to buy more glue when they can no longer get the glue out of the bottle.
brenda m - May 27, 2015 7:00:39 am PDT #27345 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Gracie was 22, and it was only in the last year or so that it was at all apparent.
Burrell - May 27, 2015 7:01:17 am PDT #27346 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So true Ginger. Glue bottles are like mascara bottles. You always have to toss it before it's empty.
Jesse - May 27, 2015 7:02:53 am PDT #27347 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, see, I always hear about these 20 year old cats, but when Homer was dying the vet said 15 was about average.
Steph L. - May 27, 2015 7:18:29 am PDT #27348 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
-t - May 27, 2015 7:46:04 am PDT #27349 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like 20 year old cats are unusual, though I have personally met several.
And Wednesday only made it to 5, so, who knows with averages.