I talked to Pam today.

She said that Julie sent her a cat.  He is an orange and white tabby with
his own little bed and he purrs up a storm. He is the talk of the medical
center because he looks so much like a real cat.  She named him Wamsey
(somehow a take off on Womack Army Medical Center where she is being
treated.)

Pam, of course, enjoys watching the reaction to the perception that she has
a real cat in the room. She goes along with it, but relents and admits he is
not a real cat if the person claims to be allergic to cats, or mentions
calling animal control, or some such thing.  She says a different person
delivers the mail each day as a ruse to get to see the cat. Other people
have gone online to find out how to order one of those cats.
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I'm looking forward to her post after she gets home and lets us know how her
cats react to Wamsey.

About Pan, she's had a setback. She is running a fever and is on a lot more
antibiotics.  She says the medical people determined that the fever is from
an infection caused by the IV line.  So, they had to relocate the IV to her
hand. The fever has spiked as high as 105 degrees F and dropped to 100
degrees and up and down in between.

They have decided that her original problem resulted from a spider bite.
The good news is that more than 90 percent of the skin graft took.  But, now
she has to heal the place nearly the whole front  of one thigh where they
took the skin for the graft.

She's getting cards from RPCA people.  She enjoys these cards immensely,
especially the home-made ones. She will be in the hospital for an
undetermined time.  She didn't ask me to say it, but I bet she'd appreciate
it if we keep the cards coming.

Annie

She is determined to get well and  get home.