A Cat, Root Canal, Reindeer Games and a Pear Tree !!!

This is Knee-Hi the cat!

She is called this because she has

white hair that comes up to her knees.

Do cat's have knees?

Oh well, she has been sick with Horners'

Syndrome. At first we thought it was an upper

respiratory infection. So the Dr. treated

her for that. When her third eyelid

came up and covered one forth of her

eye I knew something was wrong.

I took her back to the Vet and he

confirmed it was Horners' Syndrome.

So . . . they have to put her under and

clean out her ears and inject medicine

into the ear cavity give her more medicine

and hope for the best.

Well, the best wasn't meant to be.

I had to take her back and her ear drum is

all healed, she had blown it out with the

pressure of the infection, so that is great.

But. . . she has to take another bottle of

liquid medicine about three weeks and we

will again hope for the best.

To date . . . I have already spent over $ 1000.00

and counting. Could you put a cat to sleep

cause she has an ear infection?

Sorry, but I can't!

MY cruel boss said I should just hit

her over the head

and be done with it.

Or, better yet

he will do it for me.

Compassion ~ NONE!!!

Could you do this to this sweet face?

But . . . sweet face or not this cat KNOWS when

I am ready to give her the medicine.

Don't think for one minute cats are not

Smart!

Mine is very smart.

I have tried everything I can think of

to trick her

and finally I just have to grab her by the scruff

of the neck and pull her head back

and when she opens her mouth,

squirt it in and make her swallow it.

Not easy but I am doing it!

Hopefully she will be well when we get

through with this batch of medicine.

Boy the money I could have spent on

Cross Stitch!!!

Say a prayer!

What a sweet face!

Reindeer Games ~

I got another one of these done for

my twin brother and his new wife.

They came down from Tulsa two weeks after

Christmas. I got it finished

even though I was having trouble

with my back tooth on the right side.

Went to the dentist and he had to do

a Root Canal!!!

Ugh ~ it turned out to be a nightmare.

Had to go back and have him

shave off a smidgen of tooth so

my top tooth would not touch it

while it healed.

Then . . . when he finally finished it up

the next day, Tuesday, he discovered

that some moisture had leaked out of my

tooth into the root cavity.

It caused pressure to build up and cause

the pain I was feeling over the weekend when

no self respecting dentist is around to help.

It was excruciating ~~ I'd rather have a baby!

I could not even stitch!

All that time on my hands

and I can't EVEN stitch!!!

What a huge bummer!!!

Of course, why would anything to do

with my mouth be easy?

He is a wonderful man, does not hurt you

and does a complete job. I now am the

proud owner of one finished root canal.

YEA! YEA! YEA!!!

Next I get my post cause my tooth is gone

and looks like a tooth aircraft carrier.

Then it is the crown.

Boy, the money I could have spent on cross stitch!

Let's talk!

It's Official . . . I really don't like the Pear Tree!

I had done all but one of the outside pears

and discovered it was off by one row . . .

at the Top first pear!

Thus . . . the evil frog!!!

I tore all of it out and then put it all back in.

I could not find this pattern

after taking my last pictures.

I found all the others so knew it

must be close by.

Voila ~ I found it and just wanted to get it

finished!

Not to be, however ~

It is still looking like this after two weeks.

I will get back to it after I finish the

cancer quilt square I am doing.

As usual thanks for looking your comments

help motivate me to finish my

stitching and I do appreciate them so much.

Take care and God Bless your stitching fingers.

Lenna