Easy Sunday

We hope everybuddy had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Mama was sick all week, but a furry good friend of hers brought her dinner with all the trimmings. We even got bites of turkey!! It was yummy!
Anyway, we're just gonna be laying around snoozin today. Hope you all get your snoozins in too!!

Happy Birthday Sammy!

Today is Sammy's 8th birthday & Mama almost forgot. We don't know how she could almost forget, we guess she's just losing her mind or something.

Anyways, we're sending her to the store to buy all kinds of yummy noms & things to play with. Come on over & party with us!!

We are very thankful to our veterans who keep us free. Happy Veteran's Day!!

Remembering Joey........

Today would have been Joey's 1st Gotcha Day. These are the first pictures Mama took of him.

She still misses him & gets all leaky-eyes over him. Joey was a furry special kitty & Mama still loves & misses him furry much.

Now what??

Mama here. I am totally at my wits end! I squeeze Fessy's ear as hard as I can & get little to nothing out...seems like I'm just making it worse. It is now so swollen that you can hardly see his ear canal.
I read that the hematoma will heal itself eventually, but it takes awhile & is very painful. I just know that I can't afford to keep taking him to the vet & torturing him only to see it get worse.
If anyone out there in cat blog land has any suggestions, I would really appreciate them. I don't know what else to do.

Another Update on Festus

Mama took Fessy back to the v-e-t today. She had to drop him off after lunch & pick him up around 4:00. This time they just cut a hole in his ear, but didn't put stitches around like last time. The v-e-t told Mama to make sure she squeezes his ear 4 or 5 times a day. She doesn't know why he didn't put a drain in, probably because he's a country v-e-t & maybe he just doesn't do that. He doesn't recommend using a hot compress. We're just hoping it heals up this time. It's hard on Fes & it's hard on Mama. Her eyes leak something terrible when she has to squeeze on his ear, she hates hurting him like that but that's all she can do right now.
Thanks for all your purrs.

3rd time's the charm???

Mama has to take Festus back to the v-e-t yet again. His ear filled back up worse than it was....hopefully it will get taken care of & never come back!

Update on Festus

Fes saw the v-e-t today & he sang to Mama both ways! Oh Funny Farmers, we only wish we could raise money that way, we'd be rich!! The v-e-t stuck a needle in Fessy's hear in 3 different places to drain it (ouchie!!). He said for Mama to keep an eye on it (that's weird) & to let him know if it fills up again. Mama said that Festus was the best boy & never made a sound while all that was going on. He laid still, well Mama & another lady was holding on to him, but he was really good. Too bad that didn't happen on the way home, hee, hee.
When they got home, Mama opened a can of stinky goodness for all of us to share! Only thing is, we just licked the gravy off & Festus is trying to cover the rest up. Oh well, the gravy was good!!
Thanks for all the purrs, maybe we can keep em up so that his ear finally heals. Thanks everybuddy, we love you!!!

Not again......

Mama has to take Festus back to the v-e-t. His ear quit draining so she stopped squeezing it, but now it's all puffed up behind the stitches....so, back to the v-e-t. Fun, fun,fun....NOT!!!
So, we'll make Mama update sometime after the v-e-t visit. Festus will probably sing to her again on the way, we think he sings Opera. She says, thank goodness it's only 7 miles to the clinic!

We're going yellow for LiveStrong Day

Thankful Thursday

We are thankful that Festus is home & on the mend. He still has a lot of pain, especially when Mama has to squeeze his ear to help it drain. He's still hiding behind the big chair quite a bit but he comes out to love with Mama once in awhile. We'll just be glad when he's all better.

Festus is home, YAY!!!

Fessy is home, but still feeling a little puny. He wouldn't even eat treats when he got home! Right now he is hiding behind the big chair, but at least he's home.

Thank you all for the purrs & information.

PURRS NEEDED!!

UPDATE:

Teri & the cats from Furrydance is right, it's a hematoma. Both ears are infected & the v-e-t wants to keep Festus overnight. Mama didn't even ask how much it was gonna cost, she was so sad he had to stay.



Please send out some purrs for Festus. Mama was loving on him & found that his left ear is all swollen & puffed up. She said it feels hot to touch & so tight it could explode! She's gonna try to get him in to the v-e-t tomorrow before she has to go to work. Please purr that it's nothin serious....

We Will Never Forget!

Mo Cats Day

We agree with Derby!!