Lily

 

Lily had another seizure at 11:30 pm last night.  I knew that that would be the death blow.  It was probably from the stress of being ill, a sickness caused by a seizure.  See how diseases stack up on another, Natty?  We always have to be on guard, and pray.

She seemed calm in the morning.  When I woke up, she was with her brother and she greeted me with a purr.  I guess she was saying "Thank you."  She stepped out into the cage where I keep the motorcycle, and found a place to lie down.  Her brother and I were beside her, and I asked him "Do you think she's going to pull through?"  He shook his head.  I tried in the morning to force feed her some fish and rice smoothie.  I got a little bit in her, but she fought me off.  I thought I would try again later.  It was warm in the morning, and she slept through it.  Then I had to work, so I brought her inside.  After I was done, I checked on her.  She was in cat death stance (on her side) and her whole body was shaking.  I quickly watered her and gave her some liquid vitamins that the vet prescribed.  She came to her senses, and went to stare at the water bowl.  I had more work to do, so I left the house.  Went I got back, she was almost dead again.  I watered her again, and tried to feed her.  But she was too far gone.  She fought me off, she wants to die, she's trying to will herself to death.  And that last resistance left her body quivering.  With a little bit of strength left, she tried to go outside.  Cats leave the house to die.  But I need her to pass away inside, so I know where she is to bury her.  I have a grave ready, by the mango tree.  So we are waiting for Allah to take her.  Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary when she and her brother came into my life, last Ramadan.  From Allah is our origin, and to Allah is our return.

She's lost control

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, Honey?  I hope everything is well for you over there.  I keep watching that clip of your telling a joke over and over again, you're so pretty!  I have to say that mango and mint is a good combination, so you must try it someday.  The smoothie was thick, a little water would cure that.  It's been a hectic day for me.  It's as if I were spending Ramadan working at the pizza joint- I still haven't cooked my dinner yet!  Back in those days, I broke my fast on my feet and prayed the sunset prayer when there was a break in the dinner rush- in the toilet.

I took Lily to the vet first thing in the morning.  I told him that she had a seizure, and after that she couldn't keep anything in her stomach, she would puke it out.  She didn't have a fever.  The vet gave her a worm pill and some shots.  He prescribed me some liquid vitamins and puke suppressant pills. He told me that she should be OK after today.  I asked him about the seizure, but he didn't answer me.  The waiting room was full, and quiet.  I told him it's OK, I know seizures are hard to calculate.  The vet said I may have to force feed Lily.  The worm pill isn't the answer, I think.  The problem is the seizure and its aftermath.  Lily had her first seizure when she first went into heat.  She had her last seizure after recovering from a fever.  I'm going to tell you right now Natty, so please remember.  If the baby had a fever, bring that temperature down.  I don't care if it's just a symptom, bring that fever down.  Lily puked out the worm pill when she got home.  I fed her the puke suppressant, and she hasn't puked since.  I took the opportunity to feed her.  The vet asked me if she drank water today, I said she did.  So that means she puked out all her water as well.  I watered her, and managed to get the whole dose of vitamin in.  But I had trouble spoon feeding her.  I wish you were here, Natty.  I need an extra pair of hands to help me doctor the cat.

Mango and mint smoothie

 

Hi Natty!  That's a wonderful collage of uplifting photos!  You are such a treasure.  I wish I could be together with you.  That would make me very happy.  Look, I made you a mango and mint smoothie!  I thought just plain mango would be mango juice, and I thought the combination would be a good one.  I don't know what it tastes like, I'm still fasting right now.  I'll tell you tomorrow if it's good or if it's foul.  Only a coffee cup sized portion because I'm the one who has to eat/drink it, and I'm not a smoothie kind of guy.  Oh that's a confident snapshot of you in the public restroom!  You must be certain there are no hidden cameras in there, or you just don't care.  Incidentally, Lookie had been off the pee suppressant drug for 2 weeks already!  The mop was actually dry from inactivity!  The floor was so nice and dry, because everyone was using the cat box!  Then a couple of days ago she started peeing on the floor again, and today she put a big old puddle in front of my bedroom door.

Lily has stopped eating, which is red alert for cats.  I get so unhappy when any one of my cats is ill.  I'm just a lonely person, I guess.

Swing low

 

Hi Natty!  How are you today, Honey?  I hope everything is going great for you, and you are having a splendid time.  Oh it's Sunday over here, and busy as usual.  A little more BS than usual, but even that makes it usual.  Lily is still alive, no she's not paralyzed or anything like that.  She needs to calm down, and not be so excited about everything.  I told her, "There's nothing to get excited about.  It's all mostly just the same old shit and another stupid day.  You need to slow down, don't get another seizure!"  I think she understands, and she seems to be calmer somewhat.  I just got done getting my dinner ready.  I bought some grilled glutinous rice to go with my pulled beef and fresh mangoes.  I need to simplify my pulled beef recipe.  I added some of it to my ramen and it tasted like perfection, except that it gave me the runs.  Always something to mess with perfection!  I also boiled some taters for home fries in the morning.  Even though it's a whole kilo, I need some meat to go with that.  I could never be a vegetarian.  So it will be burgers with cashew relish.

Seizure

 

Hi Natty.  How are you today, Honey?  I hope all is well with you.  Little Lily had a seizure today.  I was sweeping the house and she was watching me.  She was very energetic and hyperactive, then as I was temporarily outside she had a seizure.  It lasted about 30 seconds.  She wasn't in heat, she was eating normally, she did have that fever last week which she barely came out of a few days ago.  That's 3 seizures in one year, which began with her first heat.  I think it might be congenital, maybe a lack of diversity in her family caused her to be born with brain damage.  I'm also starting to think that grey and white cats are sickly, for me that is.  On 29 April it will be one year since she and her brother came into my life.  I don't think Lily will live a long life.  Ya Allah, please heal and protect my cats.  Give them long happy lives and dignified deaths.

The stain

 Hi Natty!  I'm glad to see you are enjoying yourself.  Please be careful as to what you touch though, Honey.  Some plants don't want to be touched, and other plants have beasts lurking within them.  I think you need to study plants more.

Today is Friday, and I had to attend the Friday prayer.  It gets very chaotic when the prayer is over, and the crowd is scrambling to leave.  I have to leave immediately too, and get back to the studio to start streaming.  I don't particularly like some of the fleeting auras that pass by me as I try to leave.  I'm going to have to implement a solution for that next week.  I did my laundry in the morning.  When I pulled out my clothes to dry them, I saw a mysterious stain on my sarong while the other clothes were fine.  Can you see it too?  No, I didn't poop in my sarong.  Sometimes there are dead leaves in the tap water.  Perhaps one of them got squished into my sarong during washing.

France

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, Honey?  I hope all is well and enjoyable with you.  I decided that my trip yesterday was from fever.  Sure enough, I took a couple of aspirin after breaking fast and the sensation went away.  Adolf Kitler now has a fever too.  First Lily, then me, then Adolf, I didn't know I could catch a fever from a cat...  I guess Lookie is next in line for a fever.  I suppose you will get a fever too if that happened.  You better keep your eyes on the cat, Honey.

I kind of guessed a while ago that the French fashion bosses would try to make you a puppet for their entertainment.  I thought that if you were to live in France, people there would take you as one of their own.  But that didn't happen, c'est la vie.  The last you were in France was last year, right?  What happened back then?  They put you in a dark alley, and subjected you to potential sexual assault.  What happened after you left?  The country got hammered by Covid along with the rest of the world.  And now France is banning halal slaughter.  I'm not going to go with my ego and claim they want revenge against me.  Let's just go with a generalization that they don't want Islam in France.  By the way, didn't you eat sushi while you were in Paris?