Happy Birthday - Happy New Year - Expensive Cat

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

A belated Salute to Trina's Birthday! I'm glad it was happy, even 
tho' it will be tomorrow by now where most of you-uns are.

L'shanah tovah: both Rosh Hashanah and Autumn Equinox are good times 
to start a new year, especially now when we don't want this old 
year anymore.

My cat Elway (one of four) went to the hospital on Monday the 10th. 
He had anemia and dehydration and blood pressure so low it 
couldn't be measured and a cut on one leg that I couldn't figure 
out how he got overnight and an abscess on a toe of another leg 
that I hadn't even noticed, and I think there was more that I don't 
remember. They gave him blood transfusion, antibiotics, stapled and 
bandaged the cut because they couldn't give him stitches because he 
wasn't healthy enough for sedation and I forget what else, but it has 
cost me over $1300 so far. We got him back on Friday the 14th, 
with a follow-up visit on Sunday the 16th, and another next weekend, 
and the good news is he's in much better shape now. He's curled up 
asleep on my feet (which are joining him in sleep *OUCH*) right now.