Jenny update

Jenny is up and eating and drinking! Yippee! Thanks to all of you who held her in your prayers! applause bouquet teddybear

Today the chorus in my head is singing:



Seems to be my life's theme...

Oh and I woke to my first real piece of hatemail today! laugh I don't take it personally. He seems to hate everyone and everything. wine
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Hey, good to hear that Cailin,...Im glad for you!applause wine
Yes Cailin, How these creatures get under our skin,...I lost my old cat a while back, after thirteen years...it is hard to get used to her not being aroundwave
thumbs up good news cheering wave
Cailin. glad to hear the good news about Jenny, I bet you are pretty tired and without much sleep. hope you are able to get some rest now that things are looking better teddybear
Beautiful song beautiful pictures burn your hate mail it will then keep you warm so it was made use of kindapeace peace peace
How nice Cailin, I am really happy for you..cheering
I do know how if feels to loose some dear pets who have been in our life for some time...teddybear
Oh RG, get yourself another animal friend. They are such an addition to the life. I have too many animals so none of mine get enough attention really. By the time I collapse in bed at night I am often too wired mentally to sleep thinking about my responsibilities that I am not fulfilling really. But, by then, I have had enough of some critter needing attention. THAT is NOT the way to do it. Just have two of whatever animal you have so they keep each other company when you're not about.

I haven't ridden Jenny in over a year. She's retired. I just want to give her a relaxed old age and scratch her tummy for her. She helped me get over my fear of horses after the horse killed me back when I was 19. She also helped me log the property I had in Washington state. Those were good times with her. She is one very well trained driving horse and so eager to please. I have seen her, at one ton in weight, pull logs that had to weigh twice that much, and in a trot. Actually, I very nearly got myself killed running behind her trying to keep up over uneven ground. What a magnificent being she is.

Have a beautiful day!
Good monring Vern. You are perceptive. I am exhausted and start my new job today. NOT so good, that. I went to bed at midnight and woke at 5 AM. My nervous system has issues from the horse kicking me in the face at the age of 19. I have focal lobe seizures in my right visual center and go blind in the left half of my vision at times for 10 minutes or so. (Grand when I am driving!) It mostly happens when I don't get enough sleep. Hope I make it through the day. To make matters tougher yet, I lifted a 70 lbs sack of junk up over my head and carried it 100 feet and threw it in the dumpster last night at work and, today, the rib I disloacted in the lower right back (when Jenny threw me over her head out of a trot in 2004!) is slaying me. How I pay for my daring... laugh I've developed a strange relationship with pain. I wake up and it hurts and I laugh: "Ah! Hurts like Hell! I must be yet alive! laugh

Beautiful day to you! teddybear
doh so sorry did not know about your horse moping sad that but keep her comfortable I believe their essence stops with you anyway. You will hear her hoofs one day and you will swear it was her.hug
Redex! Jenny seems recovered. I just came in from feeding her! She's eating and drinking and looks great! (Thank you Father, and Jeshua, and HS and of course, my Michael.) smitten
Thank you and good day Minerva! I am getting more hours in my new job and just when the writing is picking up again too. uh oh Dunno how long I can keep up the pace... But we WILL talk again! I have to get to writing now...

Beautiful day to you, dear lady! teddybear
CC, you've just reminded me with the going blind thing, I used to get that on a fairly regular basis, as you say makes driving interesting laugh but I'd totally forgotten about it as it hasn't happened since my ex left over 2 years ago confused coincidence dunno probably not laugh rolling on the floor laughing
ZMan, did it look like a caleidoscope that gradually took over one side of your visual field?

I've had a few EEGs done and they call it "focal lobe epilepsy of the right occipital lobe" (visual center). Honestly, I have a lot of symptoms of narcolepsy but I don't want it diagnosed. (Thank you very much.) I certainly have a serious sleep disorder in any case. I sleep talk (and sometimes walk) and sit up in bed when asleep and, even under general anesthesia I walk and talk and seem very lucid and then, suddenly, I am utterly somnolent again. I have wakened from every surgery I have ever had (like 5) with very smused phsyicians/surgeons laughing at me. I even wakened DURING my appendectomy and tried to look at the procedure because the surgeon said (when he found my appendix -- which was on the wrong side!) "My God! LOOK at this!" So I tried to oblige but my eyes were full of salve. The anesthesiologist laughed and said "Not YOU!" and pressed my forehead back down on the table. They thought me a real hoot. Apparently I am very humorous when I am unconscious. laugh The last surgeon said I "sparng from the table saying 'Is that it? Let's do it again! That was great!" He said they left me in recovery and returned to find I had gotten up and curled up on the floor in the corner.

For obvious reasons, I don't drink often or much and I don't do drugs except the ones my DR gives me with the intention of keeping me IN the BED when I sleep... What I need is a very nice man to hold onto me all night and make sure I don't wander. Know anybody? wink
wave CC, years ago there was a lady from the UK here in SA. She used to 'talk' to any animal wild or tame with unbelievable results. I think her name was Barbara Woodhouse or something in that line. But she was amazing .
Yes, with me it used to start on the outside & work it's way in, once it got the middle it disappeared, I have a friend who has it as well & as we're all still alive I don't think it's life threatening laugh as a teenager it was the precursor to a migraine but I haven't had one of those in nearly 40 years uh oh
Luke, SIT laugh remember her well beer
@ Zman, yes someone just reminded me that on TV she was known as 'walkies' laugh handshake
@ Cailin...hiwave

...glad to hear your Jenny is up and on the mend..a couple of years ago I lost my dog and it hurt so much that I swore never to have another pet....but I have daughters...so now I have several cats who run my house for me and they even graciously allow me to live here with them....rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing

grin hug teddybear
ZMan, mine start in the middle of the left visual field and it works at getting bigger and bigger until the whole field is just spangling light and then the center of the field clears and I see the spangles at the edges and then it seems to pop off the edge of the visial field perimeter and I am fine again. It comes also with a mild clouding of consciousness. I want to sleep and I feel a little thick (contrasted, one presumes, to my normal state of really focused and enegetic and thicked.) doh

No suggestions for the cuddle detail, eh... (Shucks...) grin

My ex husband trained himself to wrap his legs over mine when sleeping. The moment I tried to move, even dead asleep, his legs would pin me. I'd have to say something lucid like "Just tunring over" to get him to let go. Then he'd wrap me up one way or another, arms or legs or both. I got to where I liked it after a while. And it was very effective.
Thanks for that Like and Z. I will look her up on Youtube. cheers
Seems that you are blessed with a gift when it comes to animals. Great stuff. wine thumbs up
Aaah, so that's why you are "Kitty joy"! Great to see you!

Something has happened to me over the years of keeping so many animals. I have shed so many tears over what I viewed as having "failed them" when they died that I guess I snapped and I no longer view death in the "normal" fashion. Add to that the fact that everyone in my family (5 people I adored) EXCEPT my older sister and her husband have all died in the last 10 years and you can see why I am inured to death. Suffering I CAN NOT ABIDE. Death is just a lie: It's a door to the Real Life and what we call "Life" is just a dream of death.

Only the body EVER appears to die and it only SEEMS real for so long as you believe in death/separation. Do not let it disceive you, sweet soul. I have also noticed that the same cat souls come back to me life after life. Now, I mean really quirky cats with WEIRD unique behaviors, not just average cats. And they look much the same so, if a soul wants to find you, they will. There's no escaping them. They KNOW you have tuna.

Do your cats allow you to use their pillows? Beautiful day to you! teddybear
Luke, I am very good with birds. They are the perfect mirror for me. When I am calm, they feel it and respond. When I am upset, the birds tell me. Birds are very responsive. Just now all the birds in my yard (I can see them through the window behind my monitor.) are strolling very slowly, browsing for bugs and feed. I am at peace and they echo that, heads down, unafraid, moving slowly.

Dogs and I get along well too. We are alot a like, me and dogs: playful, goofy, exuberant, faithful, incapable of lying, probably too candid. <SHRUG> grin Oh and, like dogs, I love just about everybody. (I do NOT like to smell bums or bite noses. Bleh...) laugh
Hello CailinCallaghan, If you are happy and at home between your animal/friends then nothing should come between that bond. Its like Lukeon states you are blessed with a gift. Be thankful, which I know you are. :)
Ksarah! Good day and thank you for commenting! I am thankful for everything. Honestly, I went to sleep last night thanking God and His Son and the HS and my Angel for Jenny being well. I had given up that there was anything I could do for her and left it in their hands saying, "If Jenny wants to live, please help her do so. If she wants to die, please don't allow her to suffer. I don't know what to do. Thy will be done, just, please, be kind to her. She is so kind." Then I just kept checking on her. "Is she eating yet? Is she drinking? Has she plopped at all?" Like that.

Anyway, when I came home from work and she was head up and wanting to go eat, I was joyous. I felt so blessed and taken care of. It amazes me that at 55 and "solitary" I am not "alone". I feel "accompanied" and loved and there is a strong sense of Presence in my life and proximity. I bless the path that led me here, every hurt, every trial, every horror, every tear and every sweatness. Nothing ever happend TO me. It all happened FOR me.

Blessed day to you! teddybear

Now I must get ready for work. Ciao for now! wave
Not the end of the world Cailin. I get plenty of it. Daily. It only serves to confirm that you are attracting attention.thumbs up
wine hug
Yes but when you get it from someone you've never even talked to! SHEESH!

What a day! Great to be back here but I am getting brain fry with the number of people and diving right back in! Gotta dash back from break! Sams club culture ROCKS!
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CailinCallaghan

Jennings, Florida, USA

I've an abundance of derring-do, but you would call it "rash". I am quintessentially fluid, indulgent, unmatched in ardor. I am unflinchingly faithful, secretive & illusive, & I cherish your confidence as you cherish mine. Two approaches work with me [read more]

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