Catching up

I was informed that I was lame for not updating this blog for a year. So here goes...

Alex developed diabetes in December. She's on insulin and doing well. Only one seizure, something I never want to experience again. As she won't let anyone handle her but me, she is now forced to travel with me wherever I go, and subsequently she's made two trips to Florida already. She travels like a trooper.

I had the pleasure/privilege of caring for two cute rat girls this past year. Abby and Dixie came to stay with me last July while their mom went to Ireland. She was unable to come back in January, so I got to keep them longer! Unfortunately, rats don't live long enough, and they crossed over to the Rainbow Bridge. Ms. Dixie developed a tumor, that Dr. L successfully operated on, but she went to sleep on Memorial Day Sunday and didn't wake up. Ms. Abby got a brain tumor a few months later and we had to let her go. That was the first animal I had ever had to put to sleep and it was really hard.

CJ, after refusing to be an indoor cat last year, was finally forced to come in for good in May. He's had several bladder infections, which I only discovered by the grace of God, and now has to have daily medicine in order to prevent another one. He will have to take said medicine every day for the rest of his life. He still cries to go out, but he is adjusting well. All the other cats adore him. He got very attached to Ms. Abby, and spent a lot of time in the rat room with her. After she left us, he refused to go in that room for about a week. He still isn't spending much time in there. Maybe if I can find the heart to take the cage down he'll do better, but I am struggling and it's been almost a month.

Everyone else is doing well, with just the occasional little problem here and there.