Today's Successes

What is success?

Well, today, success is getting a tiny orphaned kitten to poop. That's it. Can't begin to explain how happy this makes me.

And now that the little baby has finally done his business, he is no longer crying, and he's curled up on the back of my neck, actually purring. The first purr I've heard out of this baby since I brought him home from the rescue yesterday with orders to "Make him poop." Then, he was crying, pretty much nonstop. Of course, his tummy hurt.

Missy, who runs the Animal Talk Rescue, had had Percival for about 24 hours before he came to me. In that time, she had gotten him to eat from a bottle, no small feat, and had been giving him sub-Q fluids to try to make him poop.

If he hadn't pooped by this morning, I was to give him another needle stick and pump some sterile water under his skin. You can imagine how much we both would have enjoyed that.

However, I accomplished the pooping trick by holdling his little butt under warm running water.

Second Success of the Day
I must be on a roll here, because that wasn't my only success for the day.

Yesterday, I sent out an e-mail to several women I know who also write cancer blogs. I suggested we join forces and all blog on the same topic at the same time.

I suggested "meltdowns" as our first topic, since I've been in one for almost a week now. (Coming out of it now with the help of Percival and my friends.) They responded enthusiastically, and we are going to do it.

Watch for the first posts in the next few days--early next week at the latest.

@ Jeanne Sather 2007.

Comments

[SANDY G.]

That kitten is so cute! I would love to do something like that, but I'd have a very tough time giving them up when the time came.

I'd end up with a house full of animals. That would be ok with me if I had the room and the money to afford it.

~Sandy G.

[Jeanne]

Sandy--I DID end up with a house full of animals. it's a risk, that's for sure.

But it is so much fun to foster kittens.

Jeanne