The bad with the good ...

Greetings all. Well, this has been a bit of a rollercoaster of a week for us. It all began on Monday with Ginger's annual vet check up and ended with some very devastating news about our fur baby Charlie. If you have been following my blog then you already know that we had to rush our kitty Charlie to our local Pet Urgent Care two weeks ago to get what ended up to be a tumor mass removed from the inside of his leg. The Pet Urgent Care sent his tumor tissue out for a biopsy and it came back malignant. They did not know the origin of the cancer (apparently there are three types of which he could have been diagnosed with). So they suggested another specific type of test using the same tumor tissue in order to get more information about what we are dealing with. I called them on Wednesday to find out the results and they came back that Charlie has renal lymphoma. Our only options are to either attempt chemotherapy or continue with palliative care (keeping him comfortable). 

Ultimately, we decided to go with the palliative care. Mainly because I KNOW that CATS AND CHEMO DO NOT MIX!! Long story short, many years ago, I kept seeing a cat chained to an outside dog house at someone home. The cat looked terrible! It almost looked like a dog - half brown fur and half gray. I remember making a call to the Humane Society and they informed me that they had already had a lot of calls regarding this particular cat and that they could not do anything about it because they had already looked into the situation and the family who owned the cat had spent thousands of dollars on this cat's chemotherapy trying to save their cat's life. THAT is why we refuse to put Charlie through that. And, since he had already been diagnosed with kidney disease this past February the prognosis is not good.  In the interim, we are feeding him the prescription food (both wet and dry) twice a day using the turmeric capsules in his wet food.

As far as Ginger is concerned, we had her annual check up and her blood work came back good. She has been taking Prednisolone ever since she was diagnosed with one lung larger than the other which caused her to have respiratory problems. So far the meds have helped her and so we will continue with them.

I have a YouTube Channel where I posted a little video of Miss Ginger fetching her nerf ball, but YouTube would not allow me to share it directly and so I posted the link to my video underneath Ginger's pic below. By the fifth try she dropped the ball right into my hand.  Please click on the link to watch it! 💕💕💕

https://youtu.be/6jXD_-b-5o0?si=m8gZMapE7J9zzaip

Blessed September everyone!

Labor Day weekend

HAPPY LABOR DAY, friends! We had a rather nice holiday weekend beginning with a lovely dinner at a new restaurant called, "Black Sheep Tavern" ...

Afterward, we stopped off at The Sinking Spring VFW for a nightcap or two. While there, we ran into our friend (and my "dance partner" Walt's youngest son), Billy ... 💙💚💛

And, our friends Donna 'n' Dave ... 😎

On Sunday, we spent the afternoon at my hubby's cousin's house for a family cookout and the weather was gorgeous! 🌞

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Girls Day Out

Blessed Sunday, friends! Yesterday my "seester" and I spent the afternoon having lunch and, of course, shopping - lol! ...

We had a nice lunch at "Ganly's Pub"

One of the places we frequented was "The Mint Leaf" where I found a couple of items for fall ...

I also picked up this cool little "gem" at "T.J. Maxx" ...

We also stopped at "The Mystic Mind" and I purchased these awesome treasures ...

I especially loved this black cat and pumpkin multi-colored decoration ...

On the way out, we looked through the free donation books located right outside of their shop and found these books ... 😉

"Miss Bennie" meets a new friend!

In other news, I finally got my new "specs" ...

Have a great rest of the weekend all!

A Charlie Nightmare ...

 A little over two weeks ago, I woke up and began feeding the cats as usual when I turned around and saw what I can only describe as a HORROR in front of my refrigerator on my kitchen floor - two huge puddles of blood! And, sitting close by was my fur baby Charlie. I picked him up and saw that he had blood all over the inside of his left leg and it would NOT stop bleeding! Lo and behold my hubby just happened to pull into the driveway and when I showed him Charlie's leg he said, "We need to get him to the emergency vet right away!" And so we called the closest pet urgent care facility that we could get him to called, "PetHealth Urgent Care of Wyomissing". They immediately took care of him and showed us that - despite the fact that we had just had his annual check up at our own vet in February - he had a tumor mass which had apparently burst. They surgically removed his tumor that afternoon and we picked him up later that night. They sent his tumor tissue out for a biopsy to find out if it was malignant or benign. We are still awaiting those results ...

Poor Charlie had to wear a "cone of shame" (Elizabethan Collar) for two weeks. We just took him back to the emergency vet to get his stiches removed last Wednesday morning ...

Moving on, an update on Miss Bennie who is settling in very nicely in her new home. She is a "special needs" kitty as she is completely deaf and only has partial eye sight due to some sort of trauma she suffered before we found her outside and brought her into the house as part of our family ...

Charlie and Ms. Bennie ...

A new black cat kitty bed ...

Butterscotch lying in the new bed while Teddy looks on.

A Night Out

Blessed Tuesday all! Just wanted to share some pics from the concert my hubby and I had attended at "The Santander Performing Arts Center" in Reading, PA a couple of weeks ago. We were fortunate enough to see - once again - the AWESOME British group, "Brit Floyd" - (an "Pink Floyd" tribute band who have been touring and performing all around the world for many, many years) ...

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EDIT TO THIS POST: I just found out today that one of, in my opinion's greatest all-time talented artist, Dolly Parton passed away. I, personally, have always LOVED her voice and her music and so I most certainly felt compelled to include ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS by her (actually written by her FOR Porter Wagner after she decided to leave his variety show many years ago in order to pursue a solo career and made popular in the 80's with her remake of this beautiful song Whitney Houston's rendition from the movie soundtrack to "The Bodyguard"), "I Will Always Love You." ...

"I Will Always Love You"

https://youtu.be/3cO781kJ0YA?si=_jZwP33HChaX7b2n