Aaah, only six more weeks to go, then its a) holidays and b) permanent workhour reduction. Huzzah! I can't tell you how very much I'm looking forward to this; the last months have been very hard; I've been working more than was good for me, and I felt the effect. I was permanently exhausted, and my neurologist has ordered a new Ferrari.


( Read more... )

I wish you all a Happy Easter and hope you can enjoy a few peaceful days. I try my best not to do anything and catch up with all the movies I missed in the last year (and do a bit of writing ( Read more... )

So many people helped to get Alfie back on his paws (and now he's so very much back on his paws I need to increase my home insurance, hah!), but other cats are not as lucky. So here is a great cause to donate to:

Smokey's Surgery Fund

Smokey stole a sewing kit, ate some thread, and now he is in hospital and needs immediate surgery; the thread is ( Read more... )

I can see the scene unfold: Agatha, slowly and with great delight pushing bottle after bottle of Thranduil's favourite vintage 2948 2nd Ager off the shelf.


( Read more... )

This is a message from the depths of my heart and chesterfield armchair:

THANK YOU all so much for all your wonderful cards, messages, e-cards, pictures, choccies, calls, text messages and all the other wonderful things; I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas/Yule/Hannukah/Other Time!

I sure had, which means that I did absolutely NOTHING, with ( Read more... )

That cat... THAT CAT...

Remember my entry of 21st November? All is well, Alfie's healing just fine, bla bla bla? Yes. Sure. When he began sneezing food out of his nose and he was gasping for air, it was very obvious that he was not, so I rushed him first to our vet, and then directly to the clinic again. And guess what - the seems had burst. Which ( Read more... )

After everything went so well after Alfie's surgery, unfortunately a completely unexpected complication occured: during the check-up it showed that scar tissue has grown very fast and excessively, so that Alfie's throat is now almost closed again. He had problems eating and breathing, so we had to set a date for a repeat surgery quickly. It will ( Read more... )

First things first: all went well, all is well with Alfie Cat!

But what a ride that was. *shudder*

We expected Alfie to have nasal polyps or something of that kind removed. But then the CT showed that he's got an rare condition called "retropharyngeale stenosis". The doctor explained that there's a membrane in the throath with an opening allowing ( Read more... )

A huge, huge thank you to all donors, supporters, well-wishers and nice people in general who made it possible that Alfie will get the treatment he needs!
Incredible, but true: CT, lab, biopsie AND surgery are financed!
And we also have a date:
Friday, 24th October 2014
Please keep all available thumbs, paws and claws crossed that everything will ( Read more... )

Important: this evening, somebody donated EUR 400.00 for Alfie. While I'd be very happy about such a generous donation (who wouldn't!), I think that this was a typo, and should have been EUR 40.00. I don't know if the information that betterplace.org has a 14-day cancellation period for donations shows up when you make a donation, so here it is. I ( Read more... )