Another Auntie Lori Update.............

Mama is so mad at the bean v-e-ts that she has smoke coming out of her ears!!! They never did get around to doing the lumbar puncture because one of the v-e-ts put Auntie Lori on a blood thinner & the v-e-t that does that sort of procedure said "No way, it's too dangerous until all of that drug is out of her system". Then the first v-e-t told Mama that they would not do surgery to relieve the pressure, that Auntie Lori would just have to watch her blood pressure & lose some more weight. Not that she(the v-e-t) is a neurologist, she's a GP.

Auntie Lori has lost around 45 to 50 lbs in the last 6 months & she just keeps getting sicker, so Mama is fit to be tied with this v-e-t & her solutions. Poor auntie can hardly walk or anything else because she's so weak, but this stupid v-e-t discharged her from the hospital today. She told her that the hospital was a "nice safety net" but she couldn't stay forever. This comment made Mama's blood pressure go through the roof!! So now, Auntie Lori has to go in as an out-patient for the lumbar puncture......sometime when the neurologist has time.

Our Uncle Phil says they better get their sh*t together this week or he's taking her to St. Louis where they have "real" bean v-e-ts. We think she should go to the v-e-t that saved Festus this summer, he knows way more than the bean v-e-ts.

Please continue to purr & purray for Auntie Lori......she needs all the help she can get.

Lazy Saturday

We are just laying around snoozing today. "Daddy" came & put on the storm windows & got the heat-blowy box running, so it's nice & warm now. Emma growled at him when he came in, *snicker, snicker*, she's very protective of Mama.

Mama spent time at the hospital with Auntie Lori yesterday. The ben V-E-Ts still aren't sure what's going on. Poor Auntie had a terrible headache & the nursie had to give her some stuff that knocked her out. She told Mama today that they are going to do something called a Lumbar Puncture (ouchie!) to check the pressure of her cerebral fluid. Apparently if the pressure is too high there can be stroke-like symptoms, very bad headaches & lots of other symptoms that Auntie Lori has been experiencing. What p*sses Mama off about all this is that 6 months ago, when Auntie Lori started having terrible headaches & passing out, none of the bean V-E-Ts around here took her complaints seriously. She ended up going to another V-E-T 100 miles away to be treated. He diagnosed her with a certain type of migraine. She was better for awhile, but now she's very sick again. Mama says she just wants to scream!!!
Hopefully now they will find out for sure what is wrong & fix it. If it is the cerebral pressure thing, then she will have to have brain surgery to have a thing called a shunt put in to drain the fluid. Please keep her in your thoughts & prayers & that they finally figure out the problem & get Auntie Lori healthy again.

Update on Auntie Lori..........

It appears that Auntie Lori had a mild stroke. The bean V-E-Ts haven't confirmed it, but they haven't ruled it out either. She has weakness on her left side & droopiness on the left side of her face, Mama says it sounds like a stroke to her.
Auntie Lori is still in the hospital & has to use a walker to get around. She is having Physical Therapy & is going to start Speech Therapy maybe tomorrow. Auntie Lori is only 39, so she is very young to be going through all of this. Mama is a wreck so we've been purring on her more than ever.
Please continue to keep Auntie Lori in your thoughts & prayers. Thanks to all of you that signed in.....Mama will get around to thanking you personally when things calm down a bit.

Asking for Purrs & Purrayers........

UPDATE: Auntie Lori has been admitted to the hospital, but they still don't know what's wrong with her.



Please send purrs, purrayers & prayers for our Auntie Lori. She is very sick & in the ER right now, the V-E-Ts there don't know yet what's wrong with her. Mama is furry worried. Please keep our Auntie Lori in your thoughts & prayers.

`Tocktober!!

Here we have Emma `tocks.

(Mama says ignore the dirty floor)










Here are Festus `tocks.











And last , but not least, are Sammy `tocks.

We want to wish Derby a very Happy Birthday!!!

That was a close one..........

Mama & Auntie Lori went on the annual Fall Color Drive today. That's where beans drive all around the county looking at the different colored leaves on trees. They also stop at a bunch of small towns to shop at yard sales & flea markets.....although why they'd want to buy fleas is beyond us. Mama spent a fortune this summer trying to get rid of fleas.
Anyway, at one of the yard sales the beans there were giving away baby kitties.....you can probably guess where this is headed. Mama fell in love with one in particular, she kept telling Auntie Lori that she really wanted him. Luckily for us, they still had alot of towns to visit & they didn't want to leave the baby in the van all that time...........whew, that really was a close one!!!

Sad..........

We are very sad that Tiki had to go to the bridge. We're glad he's not sick anymore, but we know it's hard for his family to lose him. We are going to be purring extra hard for them.

Lazy Tuesday

Mama felt crappy so she stayed home with us ALL day! She sat around in her jammies & didn't do a thing......well, she did let us play the Red Dot game a couple of times which was fun for us! Mama must have had fun too cause she did laugh alot.......

Bad Mama

We're sorry that Mama has been so bad about posting. At least she is letting us keep up on our friends bloggies, but the last few days she hasn't even let us comment......bad, bad Mama.

She has no excuse for not posting, we think she's just lazy! Well, she says she hasn't had time, but she's sure had time to visit the little sticky-bean & his blurpy baby-bean sister. She comes home smelling of blurpy spit-up.....eewwwwwww.

We did let Mama take some pictures with her flashy box.....just so we could show our friends that we're still here.

Emma was playing peek-a-boo in our tunnel.

Festus letting Mama know that he really didn't want his picture taken. It took her several tries before she got one with his eyes open.

Mama caught Sammy in the middle of his bath.

Anyway, we are still here & we hope everykitty, doggie, bun & bean are doing OK.

For Auntie Deb.......

Auntie Deb, we are purring & purraying that your surgery goes well! And we are purraying for your V-E-T, that he can fix your poor back once & for all.
We are also sending you all our love, even Mama!! Please be well & feel better very soon.

Sammy Sunday

Today it's all about me! I get to tell you how I came to live with Mama.

Mama had a kitty for 17 years & he went to the Rainbow bridge in 1998. The man in Mama's life at the time told her "no more pets". He said it was too hard to say goodbye & he couldn't do it again.
Fast forward to 2002: Mama married my "Daddy" & he got her a Betta fish for a pet. Now Mama was really lonely without a kitty, so she talked to the fishie like he was her baby. A friend of theirs told "Daddy" that he needed to buck up & let Mama have a cat "for goodness sakes"!
So, Mama saw in the paper that the Humane Society was having a special adoption program for kitties & talked "Daddy" into going. She really wanted a little kitten, but my brother & I were the youngest there, at 4 months old. Mama came over to the cage we were in & started petting my brother, Sosa, on the head. I was afraid that she was gonna pick him so I went over & knocked him out of the way!
She looked at "Daddy" & laughed, she told him that she had just been chosen by me. The nice ladies from the Humane Society got me out of the cage & handed me to Mama.......I gave her lots of headbutts & powerful purrs, she just couldn't resist me.
When they told her what they named me, she almost started leaking from her eyes. The kitty Mama had for 17 years, his name was Sam. She also had lost a woofie a few years before Sam went to the bridge, his name was Blackie. Mama said it was meant to be for me to come live with her because I was a black cat named Sammy, that Blackie & Sam didn't want her to be lonely & sent her to find me.
I think she's probably right & when it comes my time to go to the Bridge, I'm gonna thank them for sharing Mama with me!

Playday Thursday....

Mama finally found some batteries for our Red-Dot game........we had so much fun with it!! We didn't get to play as long as we wanted though. Mama got a little worried about Emma, who she called "Miss Huff`n Puff". She played the hardest & was puffing & panting, so Mama thought we should take a break. She did say that we could play later though.......

Emma Saturday

The first thing we want to do is apologize for the crappy way the last post came out. Mama is so stup........ah....er....still trying to figure it all out.

Today is all about me, Emma. I am the most beautiful girlcat in this house (DUH, Mama!!! I'm the only girlcat in this house!). I came here to my furever home almost 2 1/2 years ago. I used to live on the farm where Auntie Lori lives now. I wasn't really very social when Autie Lori brought me to Granny's house for Mama. I hissed, growled & tried to hide so no one could find me. I was not a happy kitty.....at all. Then, when Mama & "Daddy" brought me home I was really p*ssed!! There were 2 strange cats here that I didn't know, one of them (Fes) was almost as p*ssed as I was.

I lived in the litterbox room for 2 weeks & slept in there at night for a loooong time. Mama would let me out for awhile so I could get to know my new brothers, but she stayed right with us. Probably a good thing, Festus & I growled & hissed at each other all the time. She was afraid that Fes might hurt me since he was about 100 times bigger than me. It didn't take very long before Sammy & I were snuggling & grooming each other. For the most part, Fes & I still don't have alot to do with each other & sometimes we still growl & hiss, but I love both my brothers in my own way.

It even took me awhile to get very loving with Mama. I still don't like it when she picks me up or tries to hug & kiss me. But I do get on her lap & I love for her to give me pets & scritches. I give her tons of sandpaper kisses too, that way she knows I love her. I don't like it when Mama gets sad, I usually get on her lap & put my face up to her face & meow that everything will be OK.

So there you have it, a whole post about me. I hope you enjoy reading it.

Pictures of US

We talked Mama into posting pictures of us. We think that we're way cuter than sticky & baby beans.

This is Sammy. Notice Festus in the box next to him.

This is Fes in a box.....he almost always closes his eyes when Mama gets the flashy box going.

This is Emma, probably wanting Festus to get out of the box so she could get in.

Pee Ess to Fin: This is what we usually do when Mama tries to take our picture......hee hee........

Oh yeah, Mama is feeling better, she just ate something that she knew she shouldn't. Silly Mama, she'll never learn.

Sticky-bean & Baby-bean.......

Here's a picture of Mama's little beans she's gonna take care of. Mama got to hold the baby-bean for almost 2 hours yesterday & she even went back today for awhile.

The dad-bean gave Mama this picture, it was taken the day the baby-bean was born.

From now on though, Mama needs to take pictures of US & put them on the bloggy. It's called The Chesney Cats not Mama's sticky & baby beans.

Mama may not comment on the other bloggies tonight, she hasn't been feeling very well this evening. But we're gonna make her read them so we know how our friends are doing.