My mom has been doing chemo for her spinal cancer for 7 months now with no
problems, but she is now starting to experience problems. She has been
feeling really lousy for the last week, and finally went to see her doctor
yesterday afternoon. Her doctor's reaction was to call an ...

FTR: I am waaaay more interesting to read than Prickly Pear Soup.
Get Real!
Tha Hell is an anecdote anyway?
I Love cats, You guys talk about everything!

... that you robbed him of.
Two weeks is too long to keep a big healthy affectionate cat in a cage with
no visits, no affection, nothing.
Fix what you have destroyed.

I want to extend some extra purrs and prayers.  I know several in the group
have parents with serious health issues.
May they all receive excellent treatment.  Handle what they must with grace
and courage,  May their children have ample opportunity to be with them and

GET UP!
GET UP!
GET UP!
GET UP!

Well..................
The chemo pill IS working!!!  The three new nodules found in her lungs in
May have shrunk, and there are NO NEW nodules in any of the areas where the
cancer was first found.  She is going to stay on the Megace (chemo pill) for

I *love* my son - he is *so* funny.
This weekend my DIL took their daughter and niece down to Galveston Island
for a "girls only" outing, so my son came over to spend the night here (and
made some to-die-for filet gumbo for us - quick somebody troll me so I can

My dearest internet peeps, friends and strangers that are owned by cats
(heh...  now THAT covers everyone)...
My mom had a CAT(heh)scan done this past Thursday.  The results will be read
to her tomorrow (while my dear father holds her hand).  In 2002, Mom was

From: Dan Mahoney <d...@wolf.com>
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Subject: OT: Purrs, please...
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:23:28 -0700

Fourteen years ago, I picked up a smelly, sticky, scrawny black amd
white kitten from the subway tracks, put him in my tote bag, and
brought him home.  
Mimi smelled him, and looked at me, and clearly said. "WHY did you

Have you ever been amazed at your cat's ability to squeeze through small
openings?   Not long ago I watched Chessie (9 pound Tonkinese) squeeze into
an end table drawer.  I'd swear the drawer was only open a bit less than 2
inches.  I know cats are agile but was fascinated to see ...

My brother just moved into a new place and unfortunatly his kitty Bear
is not the only critter living there. Bugs are everywhere. He has some
weird agreement with the landlord to exterminate himself. He used
foggers before him and Bear moved in, but still there is a bug problem.

?

She's chirping and playing so I think she's okay.  I'm going to give her a
daily dose of the Ornacycline for 5 days just to be safe.  It scared me the
way she looked this morning.  The only time I've seen my other birds looking
like that they wound up on the bottom of the cage (if ...

People, all who need/want them have the purrs and good wishes of all of us
here at the Shirk foo foo factory.
Real life, and general self indulgence, has kept me off the net and from
posting PC's adventures at sea.  I feel bad about missing you all, and have