Tigger gives Pet THE LOOK, because SHE MISSED HISED BIRTHDAY!

Tigger turned 5 on March 7th, which also happened to be Pet’s B’day….. (Shes not telling this year!)

So a belated Happy Birthday to boogerbutt… I mean Tigger…..
Who is a ManlyMan Cat member at M-cats club

Love to Tigger and Many Many HappyBirthdays, with love from TheMasterOfTheUniverse, The rest of theBengalBrats and Pet!

Do be sure and visit TheCatBlogosphere for all the Mews that is news!

7 weeks ago as I was getting out of bed I heard an awful noise.
In my right knee. There was instant lighting and thunder Well OK
there was instant pain.

Then it swelled and swelled, and swelled some more.
The only really good thing I can say about having a long term relationship with an orthopedic
doctor is if you call, they don’t schedule you for 2 months down the road.
In fact, after talking to the doctor, he explained that with the amount of swelling we would have to wait to get an MRI.. So we did for 6 weeks.
The MRI showed a bucket tear as well as an anterior and posterior tear of my right meniscus.Did I mention pain?

A week ago Thursday Dr L. went into my knee using arthroscopic surgery to repair the tears, instead he removed
the entire meniscus. It hurts..ice, elevate, ice,elevate, pee, whine……ice, elevate.

And ALL ThreeBengalBrats are mad at me, because they think that leg is the place to be,
so I am keeping the squirtgun handy.

Not sure how long before they all forgive me.
Now my left knee is making noise, I’m not as they say a real happy camper……

Live simply. Love generously.
Care deeply. Speak kindly.

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I know that many people do not believe me when I tell them
that Bengal Cats are smarter then they are. smarter than average. Bengals are also boisterous, playful and fiercely attached to the person they choose to own.

You have to agree that any cat that comes every time he is called, will sit and lay on request, is a lil more than average smart.

SirWoody has recently decided that The Bed at night with Pet and
TheMasterOfTheUniverse is HIS and only His.

SonnyBob and Tigger explained to him that this violates the CAT Convention Rules, SirWoody simply snorted and continued his very aggressive behavior.This worked for a couple of nights.

Last night after being bitten in the behind a couple of times, Tigger the patient and kind, whopped SirWoody, I mean across the bed, rolled on the floor, up the ceiling and dropped back onto
the bed, where he curled up in His spot, on TheMasterOfTheUniverse’s feet.

Tigger looks into the camera for a change!

Click photo for full sized image.

Life is good.

I have been meaning to welcome back our friend the RandomYak who took a needed break for freaking almost a year! for a long while, but has returned and has an enlightening interview with a turkey peacock. Or peacock turkey…

To all of our veterans, past, and present. you
have our thanks for paying the price of freedom.

We know that Freedom Is Not Free.

Photo Credit to EMCS(SS) Randy Herrick

Veterans Day originally began in England and France. On November 11, 1920, to commemorate the ending of World War I (11am on November 11, 1918 or the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month), England and France each held ceremonies where they buried an unknown soldier of the war in a high place of honor, Westminster Abbey in England and the Arc de Triomphe in France. This day became known as Armistice Day, “armistice” meaning “truce.”

The United States soon followed the examples of England and France. An unknown American World War I soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in 1921. It wasn’t until 1928, though, that November 11 was officially known as Armistice Day in the United States. Even then, it still wasn’t a holiday. A congressional action twelve years later in 1938 then made Armistice Day an official national holiday.

In only a few years, the United States would enter World War II. Sixteen and one-half million Americans took part in this war. Armistice Day did not pay tribute to these people, so President Eisenhower changed Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1954 to honor all Americans who had served in all wars.

The memorial amphitheater that was built around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier continues to be the focal point for official ceremonies for Veterans Day. A combined color guard representing all military services executes “Present Arms” at the tomb at 11 a.m. on November 11 every year. A presidential wreath is also laid out as the nation’s tribute to its war dead, and a bugler plays “Taps.”

Three weeks ago I visited Shands University Hospital infectious disease department for a follow up on an MRI done at the end of August, along with some other not fun tests.

The issue is I have hardware in my back, called an inter-body cage, and is the source (they think) of this infection that has in two years resisted 8 surgeries, 5 of which were to drain abscesses off of my spine. Eighteen months of antibiotics, most of which were IV, and a six month long c-diff infection (that’s an infection in your colon, extremely dangerous and painful.) Most times a person in this situation is given suppression antibiotics, is monitored and life goes on.
There is a surgery that opens both your abdomen, and back
to reveal both sides of your spine, scrapes the infections out , refuses the spine,
nope not going there.

Now a year later, the infection is still there and I cannot have suppression antibiotics, (needed so the osteomyalitis and diskitis infection does not flare back up) because of the c-diff.

I did however come down with a nasty case of strep throat and bronchitis, following the visit to Shands infectious disease dept.

Yes I did wear a mask, no it did not help.

So last week, I saw my local infectious disease doctor, who proscribed 5 days of levaquin antibiotic and shuddered.
He asked me if I still had any oral vancomycin left, and I just nodded.

Today, I still have a very sore throat and the c-diff is back.

And just for fun, TheMasterOfTheUniverse is in bed for the second day in a row, with some kinda flu.
Damned if you see the doc and damned if you don’t.